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One Hundred Five Only) Code No. 1533 Printed at : UPKAR PRAKASHAN (Printing Unit) Bye-pass, AGRA TTTToooo TTTThhhheeee RRRReeeeaaaaddddeeeerrrrssss Lives of all great men remind us we can make our lives sublime and parting leave behind us footprints on the sands of time. The book before you is not an original work. It is English version of Hindi book ‘Mahan Vyaktitva’ compiled by Dr. Lal and Jain, published by M/s. Upkar Prakashan, Agra. I have made no changes in it. It was quite difficult to determine the order in which the names of the ‘Great Personalities’ may be arranged. I took the path of the least resistance and arranged them in the alphabetic order. I hope this would suit our readers. A word of advice to the young and ambitious readers. You will do well to remember that ‘‘All rising to a great place is by a winding stair case.’’ (Francis Bacon) —(Prof.) R. P. Chaturvedi CCCCoooonnnntttteeeennnnttttssss LITERATURE AND SCHOLARSHIP ● Ravindra Nath Thakur………………………………….. 3–9 ● Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishanan…………………………. 10–13 ● Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar……………………………….. 14–18 ● Smt. Sarojini Naydu……………………………………. 19–23 ● Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee…………………………. 24–27 ● Kanahiyalal Maniklal Munshi…………………………… 28–31 ● Ahalya Bai Holkar……………………………………… 32–36 ● Surya Kant Tripathi ‘Nirala’…………………………… 37–41 ● Maithili Sharan Gupta…………………………………… 42–48 ● Jai Shankar Prasad……………………………………… 49–52 ● Raikrishna Das………………………………………….. 53–56 ● Babu Gulab Rai………………………………………… 57–59 ● Pt. Narendra Sharma……………………………………. 60–64 ● Makhan Lal Chaturvedi………………………………… 65–70 ● Acharya Pandit Ram Chandra Shukla…………………… 71–74 ● Dr. Ram Kumar Verma ………………………………… 75–78 ● Pt. Amrit Lal Nagar……………………………………… 79–83 ● Acharya Chatursen Shashtri……………………………. 84–88 ● Munshi Prem Chand……………………………………. 89–94 ● Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan………………………… 95–103 ● Bhartendu Harishchandra……………………………..…104–114 POLITICS ● Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru………………………………….. 117–124 ● Jai Prakash Narayan……………………………………. 125–131 ( vi ) ● Sardar Patel………………………………………………132–136 ● Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant………………………………… 137–141 ● Bal Gangadhar Tilak…………………………………… 142–144 ● Srimati Indira Gandhi……………………………………145–148 ● Lala Lajpat Rai…………………………………………. 149–152 ● Man of the Age : Mahatma Gandhi………..…………… 153–158 ● Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan………………………………. 159–163 ● Firoz Shah Mehta………………………………………. 164–168 ● Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose…………………...……… 169–174 ● Smt. Vijay Lakshmi Pandit………………………………175–180 ● Nana Fananvees………………………………………… 181–185 ● Bhagat Singh…………………………………………… 186–192 ● Kartar Singh Saraba…………………………………….. 193–196 ● Chandra Shekhar Azad…………………………………. 197–200 ● Udham Singh…………………………………………… 201–205 ● Sri Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi………………………… 206–209 ● Madam Blavatsky………………………………………. 210–215 ● Lal Bahadur Shashtri…………………………………… 216–220 ● Amar Shaheed : Krantivir Madan Lal Dhingara……….. 221–226 ● Astute Statesman Bismarck…………………………..… 227–232 ● Dr. Rajendra Prasad…………………………………….. 233–236 SCIENCE ● Dr. B. P. Paul…………………………………………… 239–241 ● Dr. Vishnu Shridhar Vakankar……………..……………242–244 ● Acharya Praphulla Chandra Ray………………...……… 245–249 ● J. R. D. Tata…………………………………………….. 250–252 ● Ramanujam………………………………………………253–254 ● Dr. Megh Nath Saah……………………………………. 255–259 ● Alfred Nobel……………………………………………. 260–262 ● Dr. Homi Jahangeer Bhabha …………………………… 263–265 ● Sir Mokshagundam Vishveshwaraiya……………………266–268 ( vii ) ● Fibonacci…………………………………………………269–271 ● Dr. Subrahmanyam Chandra Shekhar………………….. 272–274 ● Dr. Vikram Sarabhoy…………………………………… 275–278 ● Sri Chandra Shekhar Venkatraman ……………………. 279–281 ● Madam Mary Curie………………………………..…… 282–286 SOCIETY AND CULTURE ● Swami Vivekananda……………………………………. 289–296 ● Gopal Krishna Gokhaley……………………………….. 297–300 ● Pt. Din Dayal Upadhyaya………………………………. 301–305 ● Dada Bhai Naurojee…………………………………….. 306–310 ● Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia……………………………….. 311–314 ● Dr. (Mrs.) Annie Besant………………………………... 315–319 ● Dr. Zakir Hussain………………………………………. 320–322 ● Sri Arvind Ghosh……………………………………….. 323–328 ● Acharya Vinoba Bhave…………………………………..329–338 ● Hemant Mukharjee………………………………………339–341 ● Satyajeet Ray…………………………………………… 342–345 ● Kumar Gandharva………………………………………. 346–349 ● V. Shanta Ram………………………………………….. 350–353 ● Raja Ram Mohan Roy………………………………….. 354–358 ● Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati…………………………. 359–363 ● Dalai Lama……………………………………………… 364–368 ● Jagadguru Aadi Shankaracharya……………………….. 369–374 ● Mahatma Jyoti Rao Phule………………………………. 375–378 ● Ishwar Chand Vidyasagar………………………………. 379–384 LITERATURE AND SCHOLARSHIP