VOLUMEIH Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Public.Resource.org https://archive.org/details/livesthatinspire03manj LIVES THAT INSPIRE VOLUME III LIVES THAT INSPIRE VOLUME III PUBLICATIONS DIVISION MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING GOVERNMENT OF INDIA 2016 (Saka 1938) ISBN: 978-81-230-2023-5 © Publications Division BIO-ENG-OP-TR-022-2016-17 Price: ? 75.00 Published by: Additional Director General, Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, Soochna Bhawan, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110 003. http://www.publicationsdivision.nic.in Editing : S. Manjula, Vatica Chandra Cover Design : Rajesh Kumar Tranlated by : Pragya Paliwal Gaur, Himank Kothiyal, Anasua Banerjee Sales Centres : • Soochna Bhawan, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 • Hall No. 196, Old Secretariat, Delhi-110054 • 701, B Wing, 7th Floor, Kendriya Sadan, Belapur, Navi Mumbai-400614 • 8, Esplanade East, Kolkata-700069 • ‘A’ Wing, Rajaji Bhawan, Besant Nagar, Chennai-600090 • Bihar State Co-operative Bank Building, Ashoka Rajpath, Patna-800004 • Press Road, Near Govt. Press, Thiruvananthapuram-695001. • Hall No. 1, 2nd Floor, Kendriya Bhawan, Sector H, Aliganj, Lucknow-226024 • Block 4, 1st Floor, Gruhakalpa Complex, M.G. Road, Nampally, Hyderabad-500001 • 1st Floor, ‘F’ Wing, Kendriya Sadan, Koramangala, Bangalore-560034 • Ambica Complex, 1st Floor, Paldi, Ahmedabad-380007 • House No. 07, New Colony, Chenikuthi, K.K.B. Road, Guwahati-781003 Typeset at: Print-0-World, 2579, Mandir Lane, Shadipur, New Delhi-110 008 Printed at: Viba Press Pvt. Ltd., Okhla, New Delhi - 110 020 PREFACE N ATiON-building is a long drawn-out process. A nation can be compared with the human mind. The mind is impacted upon by various kinds of influences, which are sometimes similar, at times complement each other and mutually contradictory at some other point of time. Nation-building is not done by a few prominent personalities, but it is the nation which shapes these personalities. Indeed, once moulded, the personality itself exercises its own impact on the nation. The biggest force that creates history is the people. Great men are those who guide the people on to the path of progress. Though the loftiest thoughts lie dormant in books, the colossal personality of these figures transforms these ideas into a vehicle of change. This collection comprises life-sketches of such great personalities of India, whose thoughts not only influenced the society during their times but are a source of inspiration for the country even today. All these great names are indelibly associated with the honour and identity of our country. -iLr'W 'i*' m 1 r‘m ,.11' “It l'^ \rrm v'<^;F tJT 32 01 (}V ff! c« 1 * ’-'% - 4 .t,"W i'j’Awn S!'n' ' ■ ^I uV.ii‘ AO^^’’.*>.**>.’‘k'i'iv' ■''I■ -AI '•‘rji .:', ' • ^■•|„(1'-4:.IW' ^'.. :'1<; ri.f<,-<t-/Sf;rj 'li■it<'A' :' ..It' r Jf- ' (v t'h li ^iJO Ift/ Vfl tft i)|v. . tl!rf(l?X< 10*1 ■1 -u-nii '"''M'f< dt«A\i’ ■ ''■I'ifi w )i'ai4«(i*iiil*(»f;_’i;-, aiO bailff 9^1 /Jll - . ^ id ..•lif^-.. irtl o* .. I .' I. >it'»ol si; n^-, I‘'t Ud3<f! ><,. ft;ii;;'i(>u:*.qq i^.,.;;.,. L ■.' ^ ,rJ('" ^ ofoifisy ■ . •. ‘'; ^ -*1 ,',.■ -■ ...i4Lf.a .•■I ■ siWKiW'iitii* m'iiih^ty, s.u!.'} t;.' ‘,.* v;l !.., Jl ^ f , i.»i ^i' r - ■• »•. v)*! k? :r;/tfX*lS *A(s Ji ^ #0 vm 'U)^ilo rjUrrabi ii' . :j/fi CONTENTS Akbar Hansraj Rahbar 1 Todarmal Srinath Singh 8 Maharana Pratap Dhanesh Malik 12 Tansen Dilip Chandra Bedi 20 Chand Bibi Ramesh Chandra 'Prem' 26 Samarth Swami Ramdas Gargi Gupta 30 Sant Tukaram Hansraj Rahbar 34 Shivaji Narainswarup Mathur 40 Nana Fadnavis Yashwantnarain Deodhar 48 Ahilyabai Srinath Singh 54 Tipu Sultan Premchandra Bhardwaj 58 Tyagraj Gargi Gupta 64 Rammohan Rai Annapama Ghosh 68 Maharaja Ranjit Singh Srinath Singh 72 Mirza Ghalib Arsh Malsiani 75 Swati Tirunaal Lili Omcherry 80 Tatya Tope Srinath Singh 83 Laxmibai Savitri Devi Verma 87 Nana Sahab Peshwa Srinath Singh 97 Sayyad Ahmad Khan Jagdish Goyal 101 Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar Nirmala Malik 105 Michael Madhusudan Dutt Annapurna Ghosh 110 Dayanand Saraswati Pushpa Thakur 113 J , iv n i?/ n,‘ 'if*i,fK1 aitert Uv A ' '#*■ y*'* '<wiD»a . •- '■’ * 1 .'i ■ ^ Oi "jbniUii lOlfyig^lMYr Kr 'i'fi/jfi;'?... m Ir -rf',,' iTj* !^•M^7^,.yy/!4«v -V' 4 ■ ' .; *ari.ww;l/- n/;Tl*j.''il8tT V ■.f\ .. ::i Hjffcfrtjg ' \ •■• r ^ tT (^lA ’^Alvrtly ‘..VJtM t #" fcHjrtlFiM ^V ^UniuV f-'dO ». • mirrr^J riic^ <l|f:r j".f’ Ik . t '>/i- tni ■*«; '.J. ! •<' V- ' / ini hii^!ir: Yk‘ .Bj 'Oil lA'-: ii(4ya^ar\> ii»OihJ r..t\ I ;..oA'XN. i iuv/%^rii0^fUf,r73 v- '■/ft* V, ''ij’.ijfej . r' .■ .1 n- I,. i >. < '!’.• -■ . ■ \ -U'