Tulsidas biography: the sixteenth-century poet-saint of Uttar Pradesh wrote the Ramcharitmanas, the Awadhi retelling of the Ramayana that became the scripture of…
Jaishankar Prasad biography: born 30 January 1889 in Varanasi, the author of the epic Kamayani was a founder of the Chhayavad movement…
Suryakant Tripathi Nirala biography: the rebel of Hindi poetry, born in 1899 to a family from Unnao, introduced free verse and wrote…
Munshi Premchand biography: born 31 July 1880 in Lamhi near Varanasi, the author of Godaan and some 300 short stories is the…
Hari Singh Nalwa biography: born in 1791 in Gujranwala, the Sikh general carried Ranjit Singh's empire to the Khyber Pass and died…
Malik Ambar biography: born in 1548 in Ethiopia and brought to India as a slave, he became regent of Ahmadnagar, held off…
Kanhoji Angre biography: born about 1669 in the Konkan, the admiral of the Maratha navy held the west coast against the English,…
Bhagat Puran Singh biography: born 4 June 1904 in Punjab, he founded Pingalwara in Amritsar, a home for the sick, disabled and…
Prafulla Chandra Ray biography: born 2 August 1861 in Bengal, the chemist founded India's first pharmaceutical company and its first modern school…
Badruddin Tyabji biography: born 10 October 1844 in Bombay, he was the first Indian barrister in Bombay, the first Muslim president of…
Rukhmabai biography: born 22 November 1864 in Bombay, she defied a court order to live with the husband she was married to…
Anandibai Joshi biography: born 31 March 1865 in Kalyan, she earned a medical degree in the United States in 1886, one of…
