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Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar was voted the "Greatest Indian". The Greatest Indian was a poll sponsored by Reliance Mobile and conducted by Outlook magazine, in partnership with CNN-IBN and The History Channel. The poll was conducted from June to August 2012, with the winner, B. R. Ambedkar, announced on 11 August. A program associated with the poll ...
Annie Besant – British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer, orator, and supporter of both Irish and Indian self-rule. [21] John Dobson (former atheist who became a believer in Vedanta) – astronomer and telescope designer. [22] [23] Sita Ram Goel (former atheist) – Indian commentator, writer and Hindu activist. [24]
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.
Born Roshanara Khan, Indian surbahar (bass sitar) player of Hindustani classical music, converted to Hinduism to marry sitar player, Ravi Shankar. [15] [16] Manyata Dutt: Indian entrepreneur, born as Dilnawaz Sheikh. Converted upon marriage to actor Sanjay Dutt. [17] Happy Salma
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 ...
India remained the world's only source of diamonds until the discovery of diamonds in Brazil in the 18th century. [223] [224] [225] Golconda served as an important centre for diamonds in central India. [226] Diamonds then were exported to other parts of the world, including Europe. [226] Early references to diamonds in India come from Sanskrit ...
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 ...
A culture hero is a mythological hero specific to some group (cultural, ethnic, religious, etc.) who changes the world through invention or discovery.A typical culture hero might be credited as the discoverer of fire, or agriculture, songs, tradition, law or religion, and is usually the most important legendary figure of a people, sometimes as the founder of its ruling dynasty.