20th-century Indian biographers

President of India from 1987 to 1992

Indian Bengali fiction writer and socio-political activist (1926-2016)

Greek-French writer (1905-1982)

Spiritual Leader, occultist and collaborator of Sri Aurobindo (1878–1973)

Indian film and stage actor (1913-1973)

Indian scholar and author (1893 – 1963)

Indian independence activist, writer and Mahatma Gandhi's personal secretary (1892–1942)

Islamic Scholar (1925–2021)

Indian actress (1905–1991)

Assamese-language Indian poet

Indian Bengali−English writer and man of letters (1897–1999)

Indian writer

Indian singer (1910–1992)

Indian-American social activist (1934–2023)

Indian writer, playwright, and actor (1915-2003)

Indian actress

Assamese writer (1868–1938)

Indian writer (1915-1997)

Hindi novelist, literary historian, essayist, critic and scholar from India

Indian writer and activist

Gujarati writer, social worker and educationist (1882-1970)

Indian writer

Indian politician

Indian Army personnel

Indian Islamic scholar, teacher and writer (1942–2006)

Chandrika Balan (born 17 January 1954) is an Indian writer who has published books in English and Malayalam, under the pen name Chandramathi. She is a writer of fiction, translator, and critic in English and Malayalam. Chandramathi has published four books in English and 20 in Malayalam, including 12 collections of short stories, an anthology of medieval Malayalam poetry, two collections of essays, two memoirs, and five books translated from English. The Malayalam film Njandukalude Nattil Oridavela was based on her book.

Indian freedom fighter, educationist and gandhian

Indian writer

Indian author

Indian writer (1912–2009)

Hindustani singer

Indian prince, Gandhian, writer, freedom fighter and diplomat (1912-1992)

Gujarati author and independence activist from India (1891-1957)

Gujarati author (1876–1958)

Indian scholar of Unani medicine (born 1940)

Indian writer

Indian politician (1918-2004)

Indian academic

Bengali novelist and editor

Indian historian

Hindi writer

Writer Novelist, historian, philosophical and political person

Indian politician (c. 1911–1987)

Indian anthropologist (1901–1972)

Goan writer

Indian economist (1919-2012)

Jesuit priest and author (1925-2020)

Indian writer

Indian writer (1885–1973)

Indian writer

Indian writer (1911–1986)

Indian writer, educationist

Indian poet

Indian writer, vice-chancellor

Indian Gujarati language author

Indian historian

Indian writer

Indian writer

Kannada writer, lexicographer, grammar expert, critic and editor

Renowned Linguist and Sanskrit/ English Scholar