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B. R. Ambedkar
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and politician who chaired the committee that drafted the Constitution of India based on the debates of the Constituent Assembly of India and the first draft of Sir Benegal Narsing Rau. Ambedkar served as Law and Justice minister in the first cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru. He later renounced Hinduism and converted to Buddhism, inspiring the Dalit Buddhist movement.
Ela Bhatt
founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA)
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Bengali feminist writer and social reformer (1880-1932)
Farhan Akhtar
Indian director and actor
Celina Jaitly
Indian film actress
Pandita Ramabai
Indian feminist historian and social reformer (1858–1922)
Padma Lakshmi
Indian-born American author, actress, model, television host and executive producer
Mahadevi Varma
Indian Hindi writer and poet (1907-1987)
Sushmita Banerjee
writer, memoirist, women's rights activist
Laxmi Agarwal
Indian acid attack survivor and activist
Mallika Sarabhai
activist and Indian classical dancer from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Gulabi Gang
women's group in India
Cornelia Dorabuji
Indian barrister, writer, and social reformer; first female graduate from Bombay University, first woman to study law at Oxford University; first Indian national to study at a British university (1866-1954)
Manasi Pradhan
Indian writer and Women's rights activist
Sunitha Krishnan
Indian social activist
Hansa Jivraj Mehta
reformist, social activist, freedom-fighter and educator and writer of India
Sarala Devi Chaudhurani
Indian activist
Sugathakumari
Sugathakumari (22 January 1934 – 23 December 2020) was an Indian poet and activist, who was at the forefront of environmental and feminist movements in Kerala, India.
Tarabai Shinde
feminist activist who protested patriarchy and caste in 19th century India
Rameshwari Nehru
Indian social worker (1886–1966)
Dina Pathak
Indian actress (1922-2002)
Suniti Devi
Maharani of Indian state of Cooch Behar (1864–1932)
Kavita Krishnan
Indian politician
Jnanadanandini Devi
Bengali writer
Jasodhara Bagchi
Indian writer and activist
Indira Jaising
Indian lawyer
Vina Mazumdar
Indian academic, feminist (1927-2013)
Sampat Pal Devi
Indian activist
Ramadevi Choudhury
Indian freedom fighter (1899–1985)
Margaret Cousins
Irish-Indian suffragist and feminist
Gita Sahgal
Indian writer and activist
Brinda Karat
Indian politician
Ramabai Ranade
Indian active social worker and one of the first women's rights activists in the 19th century
Herabai Tata
Indian suffragist and women's rights activist
Nawab Faizunnesa
Bengali writer
Lalithambika Antharjanam
Indian writer and social reformer
Sarah Joseph
Indian writer
Abala Bose
Indian educationalist (1864–1951)
Mumtaz Shaikh
women's rights activist
Hamid Dalwai
Indian social reformer, thinker and writer (1932-1977)
Kirthi Jayakumar
Indian women's rights activist
Tiffany Brar
Indian Social Activist
Ruth Manorama
Indian activist
Annapurna Maharana
Odia freedom fighter (1917-2012)
Masuma Begum
women's rights activist from Hyderabad
Anasuya Sengupta
Indian-American poet, women's rights activist, social justice advocate, entrepreneur
Behramji Malabari
Indian poet and social reformer (1853–1912)
Kandukuri Vireshalingam
Social reformer and father of modern Telugu literature
Suzette Jordan
Indian women's-rights activist and anti-rape campaigner
Mala Sen
Indian author
Flavia Agnes
Indian activist and lawyer
Daya Bai
Indian social worker
V. Mohini Giri
Indian activist
Radhabai Subbarayan
Indian politician, women's rights activist, and social reformer
Rita Banerji
Indian writer
Rehana Fathima
Muslim woman activist arguing the entry of women of all ages in Sabarimala temple, Kerala, India
Trupti Desai
Indian activist for women's rights
Lotika Sarkar
Indian feminist, educator and lawyer
nusrat aga
Indian activist, educator and politician
Kiranjit Ahluwalia
Human rights activist, author