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Secondly, The Greatest Indian chose to focus on India as a modern nation: "India today is unrecognizable from the India that got independence in 1947. This nation has achieved this stature in the world thanks to contribution from millions of Indians. This is an effort to recognise one who has made the maximum contribution and impact in the ...
Bal Gangadhar Tilak, the Indian nationalist, journalist, teacher, social reformer, lawyer and an independence activist who was the first popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement observed :”Twelve centuries ago Sankaracharya was the only great personality, who not only spoke of the purity of our religion, not only uttered in words that this religion was our strength and wealth, not ...
As India's first Prime minister and external affairs minister, Nehru played a major role in shaping modern India's government and political culture along with the sound foreign policy. [329] He is praised for creating a system providing universal primary education, [ 330 ] reaching children in the farthest corners of rural India.
Rabindranath Tagore was the first person of Indian origin and also first Asian to be awarded with the Nobel Prize. [1] He received the prize for Literature in 1913.. The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed on "those who conferred the greatest benefit on humankind" in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences, [A ...
The following article is a list of Indian scientists spanning from Ancient to Modern India, who have had a major impact in the field of science and technology. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Dadasaheb Phalke Award named after him for lifetime contribution to cinema and is the highest official recognition for film personalities in the country [61] Girish Karnad, film director who received India's top literary prize, the Jnanpith Award, Padma Shri in 1974 and Padma Bhushan in 1992 [62]
He played a vital role in the freedom struggle by creating public opinion against the British government through his writings in 'samaja'. Radha Krishnamma Panthulu Nemalipuri: A school teacher and an Indian independence activist, he actively participated and fought for independence during the Quit India Movement of 1942. Raja Nahar Singh
Indian mathematicians have made a number of contributions to mathematics that have significantly influenced scientists and mathematicians in the modern era. One of such works is Hindu numeral system which is predominantly used today and is likely to be used in the future.