20th-century Indian non-fiction writers

President of India from 2012 to 2017

Prime Minister of India (1996, 1988-2004)

Indian philosopher, activist and environmentalist (*1952)

Geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1892-1964)

Indian American economist

Indian writer and mental calculator (1929-2013)

Indian spiritual master (1894–1969)

Deepak Chopra is an American author, New Age guru, and alternative medicine advocate. A prominent figure in the New Age movement, his books and videos have made him one of the best-known and wealthiest figures in alternative medicine. In the 1990s, Chopra, a physician by education, became a popular proponent of a pseudoscientific approach to well-being that includes yoga, meditation, and nutrition, among other New Age therapies.

Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights (1895-1982)

First female Indian Police Service Officer (born 1949)

Indian historian (born 1931)

Indian Islamic scholar and reformer, regarded as a founder of the Barelvi movement (1856–1921)

Indian Theosophist (1869-1958)

economist

social-cultural anthropologist (born 1949)

Indian missionary (1889–1929)

Indian economist (1955-)

Indian feminist economist

Indian politician and art historian (1928-2020)

Indian freedom fighter and social reformer (1903-1988)

Mahmood Mamdani is a Ugandan anthropologist, academic, and political commentator. He is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and a professor of anthropology, political science, and African studies at Columbia University. He also serves as the chancellor of Kampala International University in Uganda, and honorary professor at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town.

Indian politician (1952–2024)

Indian sociologist, anthropologist, educationist, and writer (1905-1970)

Indian sociologist

Indian communist politician and theorist and first Chief Minister of Kerala state (1909-1998)

Indian-American political commentator (born 1961)

Indian physicist (1926–2017)

Indian politician

Indian Islamic Scholar (1857–1914)

Indian mathematician

Second Sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

Indian politician

Indian writer and activist

Indian writer (1905–1952)

Swami Agnivesh (born Vepa Shyam Rao; 21 September 193911 September 2020), was an Indian social activist and the founder of Arya Sabha, a political party based on the principles of Arya Samaj. He also served as a cabinet minister in the state of Haryana. He is best known for his work against bonded labour through the Bonded Labour Liberation Front, which he founded in 1981.

Indian academic, feminist (1927-2013)

Indian diplomat (1936–2005)

Indian active social worker and one of the first women's rights activists in the 19th century

Indian activist and editor

Indian judge (1915–2014)

professor, researcher, academician, political activist and social worker

Indian spiritual teacher (1910-1997)

Indian writer, scholar

Indian Marxist philosopher (1918–1993)

Indian journalist, activist

Indian economist

Indian revolutionary and noted sociologist (1880–1961)

Indian theorist, literary critic and scholar (1931–2022)

Indian archaeologist (1921–2022)

Indian economist

Indian mathematician (1918-2000)

Indian activist (1893–1973)

Indian archaeologist

Indian activist

Sri Lankan rationalist and professor (1898–1978)

Indian author

Indian writer (1926-2009)

Indian zoologist and author (1961- ) of both popular science books and sf short stories

Indian singer

Indian choreographer