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9 figures
Jamsetji Tata
1839 – 1904Founded Indian heavy industry and the philanthropic corporate model behind it.
Rabindranath Tagore
1861 – 1941First non-European Nobel laureate; wrote two nations' anthems.
Hakim Ajmal Khan
1868 – 1927Physician of Unani medicine who built its modern colleges and led the Indian National Congress.
Mahatma Gandhi
1869 – 1948Turned nonviolent resistance into a working political technology.
P. S. Varier
1869 – 1944Founded Arya Vaidya Sala at Kottakkal and industrialised classical Ayurvedic pharmacy.
Srinivasa Ramanujan
1887 – 1920Self-taught genius whose notebooks still yield theorems a century later.
C. V. Raman
1888 – 1970Raman scattering, now the basis of a ubiquitous laboratory spectroscopy.
B. R. Ambedkar
1891 – 1956Principal architect of India's constitution and Dalit emancipation.
Satyendra Nath Bose
1894 – 1974Bose–Einstein statistics; the boson is named after him.