Indian humanists

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)

Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century. Nehru was a principal leader of the Indian nationalist movement in the 1930s and 1940s. Upon India's independence in 1947, he served as the country's first prime minister for 16 years. Nehru promoted parliamentary democracy, secularism, and science and technology during the 1950s, powerfully influencing India's arc as a modern nation. In international affairs, he steered India clear of the two blocs of the Cold War. A well-regarded author, he wrote books such as Letters from a Father to His Daughter (1929), An Autobiography (1936) and The Discovery of India (1946), that have been read around the world.

Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)

Indian writer

Indian political activist and intellectual

Indian spiritual Guru, philosopher, social reformer and composer (1921–1990)

Indian-American social activist (1934–2023)

Indian rationalist

Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (27 February 1912 – 10 March 1999), popularly known by his pen name, Kusumāgraj, was a Marathi poet, playwright, novelist and short story writer, who wrote of freedom, justice and emancipation of the deprived.

Indian academic and scholar

Indian activist and Telugu writer (1924-2014)

Indian activist (1909-2004)

an Indian physician and social worker

matriarch of the Khongiya Barooah family of Thengal, Assam