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Jamsetji Tata

1839 – 1904

Founded Indian heavy industry and the philanthropic corporate model behind it.

India·Business

Sun Yat-sen

1866 – 1925

Three Principles of the People underwrote the republican transformation of China.

China·Politics

B. R. Ambedkar

1891 – 1956

Principal architect of India's constitution and Dalit emancipation.

India·Economics · Philosophy · History

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