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London, Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2004.
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| Description |
128pOrange Spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
Includes true life stories of India's greatest musicians, artists, and scientists to the most influential political leaders, thinkers, and writers - find out who changed India and how they did it.
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| Contents |
Leading leaders -
Chanakya & Chandragupta Maurya
Ashoks the great
Akbar
Shah Jehan
Sher Shah Suri
Chhatrapati Shivaji
Tipu Sultan
Rani Lakshmi Bai
Mahatma Gandhi
Sardar Patel
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
Sarojini Naidu
BR Ambedkar
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jayaprakash Narayan
Indira Gandhi
JRD Tata
Verghese Kurien
E Sreedharan
NR Narayana Murthy
Ela Bhatt
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
Thoughtful thinkers -
Religious leaders:
Gautam Buddha
Lord Mahavira
Adi Shankaracharya
Guru Nanak
Poets of faith:
Amir Khusro
Kabir
Surdas
Mirabai
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Swami Vivekananda
BKS Iyengar
Periyar Ramasamy
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Aurobindo Ghose
Mother Teresa
Sunderlal Bahuguna
Amartya Sen
Aruna Roy
Successful scientists -
Ancient pioneers:
Acharya Charaka
Sushruta
Aryabhatta
Bhaskaracharya
Sawai Jai Singh
CV Raman
SN Bose
JC Bose
S Ramanujan
PC Mahalanobis
Homi J Bhabha
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Vikram Sarabhai
Rakesh Sharma
MS Swaminathan
Salim Ali
Hargobind Khorana
Venkataraman Radhakrishnan
Clue-up creatives -
Kalidasa
Thyagaraja
Rabindranath Tagore
Writers on the block:
Munshi Premchand
Amrita Pritam
Vikram Seth
Amitav Ghosh
Dadasaheb Phalke
Musicians:
Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
Ustad Bismillah Khan
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan
Kishori Amonkar
Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia
Pandit Ravi Shankar
MS Subbulakshmi
Ustad Zakir Hussain
Satyajit Ray
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Zubin Mehta
Nek Chand
Amrita She-Gil
MF Hussain
Amitabh Bachchan
Rajnikanth
AR Rahman
Lata Mangeshkar
Sporting stars -
Dhyan Chand
Milkha Singh
Tenzing Norgay
Bachendri Pal
Prakash Padukone
Geet Sethi
Vishwanathan Anand
Sachin Tendulkar
Mary Kom
Champions league:
PT Usha
Abhinav Bindra
Sushil Kumar Solanki
Saina Nehwal
Deepika Kumari
Let's applaud...
These people who also made Indian history
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| Standard Number |
9781409348265 Pb.
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