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Ram Mohan Roy
Indian religious, social, and educational reformer, and humanitarian
Ramanuja
Ramanuja ('; Middle Tamil: Rāmāṉujam; Classical Sanskrit: Rāmānuja; 1077 – 1157, trad. date 1017-1137), also known as Ramanujacharya''', was an Indian Hindu philosopher, guru and social reformer. He is one of the most important exponents of the Sri Vaishnavism tradition in Hinduism. His philosophical foundations for devotional practice were influential in the Bhakti movement.
Syed Ahmed Khan
Indian Muslim reformer and social activist (1817–1898)
Dayananda Saraswati
Indian social reformer (1824-1883)
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Philosopher, academic, writer, translator, entrepreneur, social reformer and philanthropist (1820-1891)
Debendranath Tagore
Indian philosopher (1817–1905)
Erode Venkatappa Ramasamy
Erode Venkatappa Ramasamy (17 September 187924 December 1973), commonly known as Periyar, was an Indian social activist and politician. He was the organiser of the Self-Respect Movement and Dravidar Kazhagam and is considered the architect of Dravidian politics, as well as a leading figure of left-wing politics in India.
Subramanya Bharathi
Tamil poet, social reformer, fighter for Indian freedom & women's rights
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)
Narayana Guru
Indian spiritual leader and social reformer (1856–1928)
Ramananda
Jagadguru Swami Ramananda (IAST: Rāmānanda) or Ramanandacharya was an Indian 14th-century Hindu Vaishnava devotional poet saint, who lived in the Gangetic basin of northern India. The Hindu tradition recognizes him as the founder of the Ramanandi Sampradaya, the largest monastic Hindu renunciant community in modern times.
Sarala Devi Chaudhurani
Indian activist
Keshub Chunder Sen
Indian academic (1838–1884)
Suniti Devi
Maharani of Indian state of Cooch Behar (1864–1932)
E. M. S. Namboodiripad
Indian communist politician and theorist and first Chief Minister of Kerala state (1909-1998)
Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati
Gaudīya Vaisnava Hindu guru and instructor (1874–1937)
Jnanadanandini Devi
Bengali writer
Ramadevi Choudhury
Indian freedom fighter (1899–1985)
Abala Bose
Indian educationalist (1864–1951)
Annapurna Maharana
Odia freedom fighter (1917-2012)
Sucharu Devi
Maharani of Mayurbhanj (1874-1959)
Rani Rashmoni
19th century Indian philanthropist
Niẓām-ad-Dīn Muḥammad
Islamic scholar
Khujista Akhtar Banu
Bengali aristocrat and writer
Charulata Mukherjee
activist
Jatindramohan Tagore
Indian philanthropist (1831–1908)
Harichand Thakur
Founder of the Matua sect (1812–1877)
Gurusaday Dutt
Indian writer, folk literature researcher and civil servant
Panchanan Barma
Indian reformer
Rajkumari Banerji
Indian philanthropist (1847-1876)
Nandshankar Mehta
Indian Gujarati novelist