20th-century Indian scholars

Yogi, Kriya Yoga guru and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship (1893-1952)

Syro-Malabar Catholic Franciscan Religious Sister

Indian politician and scholar (1848–1925)

Indian writer, editor, essayist, poet, novelist, musician and social worker (1855/1856-1932)

Bengali educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician (1864-1924)

Bengali writer

Indian Hindu mystic (1866-1939)

Indian historian

Indian academic

Bengali scholar and author (1853-1931)

Dharampal () (19 February 1922 – 24 October 2006) was an Indian historian, historiographer, and a Gandhian thinker. Dharampal primary works are based on documentation by the colonial government on Indian education, agriculture, technology, and arts during the period of colonial rule in India. He is most known for his works The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century (1983), Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century (1971) and Civil Disobedience and Indian Tradition (1971), among other seminal works, which have led to a radical reappraisal of con

Indian educationalist (1851–1915)

Indian-American microbiologist (1938-2020)

Bengali writer (1934-2020)

Bengali folklorist (1866-1939)

Indian Muslim scholar

Swami Ranganathananda (15 December 1908 – 25 April 2005) was a Hindu swami of the Ramakrishna Math order. He served as the 13th president of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission.

Muslim writer

Ayyankali (28 August 1863 – 18 June 1941) was an Indian social reformer, educator, economist, lawmaker, and revolutionary leader. He worked for the advancement of oppressed people in the princely state of Travancore. His struggles resulted in many changes that improved the socio-political structure of Kerala. His determined and relentless efforts transformed the lives of Dalits. He is known as the King of Pulaya.

American writer

Swami Shivananda (1854–1934), born Tarak Nath Ghosal, was a Hindu spiritual leader and a direct disciple of Ramakrishna, who became the second president of the Ramakrishna Mission. His devotees refer to him as Mahapurush Maharaj (Great Soul). Shivananda and Subodhananda were the only direct disciples of Ramakrishna to be filmed. He was a Brahmajnani ("knower of Brahman or the Supreme Being"). Shivananda introduced the celebration of the birthdays of his brother-monks. He was known to have laid the foundation stone of Shri Ramakrishna Temple at Belur Math, which was designed by Vijnanananda.

Indian Academics, social reformer, philosopher, writer, translator, historian (1847–1919)

Indian historian of modern India (born 1939)

Indian historian

Indian economic historian (1936-2024)

Indian lawyer and writer

environmentalist

Sanskrit scholar, Indologist and philanthropist (1898–1982)

writer, essayist

Indian writer from Gujarat

Indian academician, writer

Indian ethnographer, folklorist, Indo-European post-colonial theorist and educator

Indian philosopher

Indian writer

Bangladeshi Islamic scholar (1887-1984)

Scholar in philosophy, languages and literature, particularly Bengali literature, literary critic, author, theologian

Indian writer

Indian scientist

Sanskrit writer

historian, professor and writer

Bengali scholars (1878-1959)

Indian management theorist (1948-2004)

Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University

Bengali scholar

Indian scholar (1928-2017)