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Annie Besant
She was an
Irish
lady who came to India to attend the Annual Convention of the Theosophical Society at Adyar in Madras in 1893.
She became the President of Indian National Congress in 1917.
She is well known for her
Home Rule
movement.
She also established the
Central Hindu College in 1898
, which later formed the nucleus of the Benares Hindu University.
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, playwright, novelist, short story writer, musician, artist, actor, director philosopher was born on May 7, 1861.
Won the Nobel prize for literature in
1913
for his collection of verses
Geetanjali
.
He was awarded the
knighthood
in 1915 but returned it in 1919 as a protest against the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.
Acharya Vinoba Bhave
A true Gandhian, he was arrested for participating in the Dandi march in 1930.
He was one of the moving spirits behind the
Nagpur Flag Satyagraha.
He is well known for his
Bhoodan
and
Sarvodaya
Movement.
Aurobindo Ghosh
Born on August 15, 1872 in Kolkata he embarked himself in the freedom movement from 1902 – 1910.
He later took refuge in Pondicherry devoting his life to the development of unique philosophy.
He was a poet, philosopher and a politician.
His most famous work is ‘
Life Divine
’.
He passed away on December 5, 1950.
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
He was the pioneer of Muslim education in India.
His efforts ensured the laying of the foundation stone of
Mohammaden Anglo Oriental College
by
Lord Lytton
on Jan 8, 1877 at Aligarh.
The college became
Aligarh Muslim University
in 1920.
Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherji
He was the founder of the
Bhartiya Jan Sangh
in October 1951.
He represented North Calcutta in the first Lok Sabha.
As the leader of opposition he earned the title ‘
Lion of Parliament
’.
Earlier when he was in the cabinet of Nehru he quit in protest over according special status to Jammu & Kashmir.
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Mother Teresa
Her original name was
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhin
.
She was born on 26 Aug 1910 in Skopje, then in
Albania
, now the capital of Macedonia.
She founded the
Missionaries of Charity
and Nirmal Hriday a home for the dying destitutes.
Won Padma Shri in 1961, Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and the Bharat Ratna in 1980.
Jai Prakash Narayan
He joined the Civil disobedience movement of 1930s.
He organized the
All India Congress Socialist Party
along with Acharya Narendra Dev.
On 26 Jun 1975 he launched
Bhrashtachar Mitao Andolan
, a movement against corruption which brought down the Congress government in 1977.
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