Writers from Uttar Pradesh

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.

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

Indian scholar and author (1893 – 1963)

Indian writer

Indian Islamic Scholar (1857–1914)

Indian writer (1915-1997)

Indian writer (1925–2011)

Amarkant (1925 – 17 February 2014) was an Indian writer of Hindi literature. His novel Inhin Hathiyaron Se earned him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2007, and Vyas Samman in year 2009. He was awarded Jnanpith Award for the year 2009. Amarkant is considered one of the prominent writers of the story writing tradition of Premchand but certainly is credited to add something better in that tradition by his own individuality.

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

Indian educationalist and social reformer

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 Islamic scholar, philosopher, writer, critic, researcher, journalist and exegete of the Quran (1892–1977)

Karachi-based Urdu editor

Indian activist and journalist (1886-1979)

Indian writer (1937-2020)

Indian writer

Indian author, teacher and poet

Indian teacher and writer

Indian writer and poet

Indian writer (1933-1996)

writer

Indian writer

Indian writer (1909-1994)

Indian Islamic scholar, author and historian (1916–1996)

Hindi writer

Islamic scholar

indian-British writer and poet

Indian physician of Ayurveda and a Sanskrit scholar

Indian civil servant (1914–1997)