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English: A chronological collage of some of the most influential Indians of all time, which includes all ethnic groups such as Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil and Telugu.
  • First row:
  1. Chanakya- the main advisor of greatest Indian emperors like Chandragupta, Bindusara, Ashoka and the pioneer of political science and economics in India
  2. Chandragupta Maurya - founder of the Mauryan Empire and the first emperor to unify India into one state
  3. Aryabhata- the most essential Hindu scientist
  4. Guru Hargobind - sixth Sikh Guru who instituted the practice of maintaining armed legion of Sikh warrior-saints as protector of oppressed Hindus and Sikhs and declared wars against Muslim great rulers
  5. Akbar the Great - third Mughal emperor, who nearly conquered the entire Indian Scontinent and formed a centralized society in the empire,founded Din-e-Illahi movement
  6. Chand Bibi - Muslim woman warrior, who acted as the Regent of Bijapur, Regent of Ahmednagar Indian Muslim woman warrior.
  7. Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim - fourth Mughal Emperor, who is regarded as one of the greatest Mughal Emperors by scholars and the fourth of the Grand Mughals in South Asian historiography
  • Second row:
  1. Meera - Hindu saint, devotee of Krishna and poet whose quotes are one of most essentials in Indian history and
  2. Rani Durgavati- A Rajput queen who defended attacks by the Ghaznavids
  3. Akbar II - penultimate Mughal emperor, who is considered to be a pensioner of Britain and he sent the Bengali King Ram Mohan Roy as an ambassador to Britain
  4. Tipu Sultan -scholar, poet and ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore, who deployed the rockets against advances of British forces and their allies in their 1792 and 1799 Siege of Srirangapatna and acknowledged considered a pioneer in the use of rocket artillery
  5. Raja Ram Mohan Roy - Bengali religious leader and Indian ambassador for Britain ,who invented the therm "Hinduism" and introduced the funeral practice of Sati in which the widow was compelled to sacrifice herself on her husband’s funeral pyre
  6. Mahatma Gandhi- the Founding Father of the modern State of India
  7. Indira Gandhi - daughter of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru , third (and first lady) Primeminister of India, A prominant member of indian national Congress Party
  • Third row:
  1. Rabindranath Tagore - The first non-European to win a Noble and author of India and Bangladesh's national anthems
  2. Swami Vivekananda - Famous Hindu monk, who introduced the Asian philosophies of Yoga and Vedanta to the Western world
  3. C.V. Raman - The first South-Asian to win a Nobel Prize in science, who worked on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the Raman effect
  4. Gurazada Apparao - writer, architect and poet of Andhra Pradesh, who wrote the first Telugu play
  5. Satyajit Ray - one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century, who obtained several awards
  6. Satyendra Nath Bose - the famous physicists who is best known for his work on quantum mechanics and he provided the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate
  7. Amartya Sen - Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members
  • Fourth row:
  1. Kalpana Chawla - first Asian woman and India-American person in space
  2. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan - Miss World pageant of 1994 and one of the most notable
  3. Shah Rukh Khan - one of the world's most popular and richest actors, who won various awards
  4. Sachin Tendulkar - one of the greatest batsman in the history of cricket as well as the greatest Indian sportsman ever
  5. Asha Bhosle - one of the most recorded singers in the history
  6. Zakir Naik - scholar, public speaker, medical doctor, who is recognized to be one of the most influential Muslims of the 21st century
  7. Mukesh Ambani - a businessman, recognized as one of the wealthiest persons in the world, who resides in the world's most expensive residential property
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