In short, do you know any historical influential people from our geographical areas who were not kings, political leaders, tribal Heads, rajas or military men?
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Do Akbar's Nau-ratan count?
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan as educationist?
Philosophers: Dr. Radhakrishnan (President of India) was contemporary and at par with Russel.
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Sir Ganga Ram’s story is impressive: Salman Rashid: Sir Ganga Ram: Engineer, Angel and Visionary
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Srinivasa Ramanujan
S Chandrashekhar
CV Raman
Rabindra Nath Tagore and many other pundas
Amartya Sen, APJ Abdul Kalam and many other non-pundas
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The first nobal laurete from Punjab was hargobind Khurna
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In short, do you know any historical influential people from our geographical areas who were not kings, political leaders, tribal Heads, rajas or military men?
What do you mean by "our geographical areas"? Indo-pak?
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What do you mean by "our geographical areas"? Indo-pak?
Yes, sir.
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Mr.Ardeshir Cowasjee.
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Mr.Abdul Sattar Edhi.
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Dhirubhai Ambani and TATA Khandan
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HISTORICAL personalities guys... go back 100, 500, 1,000, 5,000 years back please!
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Charak and Sushruta
Aryabhatta, VarahMihir, Bhaskaracharya
Writers like Valmiki and Ved vyas
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Charak and Sushruta
Aryabhatta, VarahMihir, Bhaskaracharya
Writers like Valmiki and Ved vyas
Could you give some background info or links to short biographies?
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Ibne Sena and Al Berouni - proudly considered as national heroes by Tajiks and Farsibans of Afghanistan.
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The Sushruta Samhita (सुश्रुतसंहिता) is a Sanskrit redaction text on surgery. The original work is attributed to Sushruta, likely a historical physician from the sixth century BC Varanasi,[SUP][1]](Sushruta Samhita - Wikipedia)[/SUP][SUP][2]](Sushruta Samhita - Wikipedia)[/SUP][SUP][3]](Sushruta Samhita - Wikipedia)[/SUP] although the text as preserved dates to the 3rd or 4th century AD. It is one of three foundational texts of Ayurveda (Indian traditional medicine), alongside the Charaka Samhita and the medical portions of the Bower Manuscript.[SUP][4]](Sushruta Samhita - Wikipedia)[/SUP] The original text however is lost and modifications and edited versions are currently available**
Probably most influential work in medicine. Chinese medicine has roots in Indian medicine as well. **
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Aryabhata** (Sanskrit: आर्यभट; IAST: Āryabhaṭa) or Aryabhata I[SUP][1][/SUP][SUP][2][/SUP] (476–550 CE)[SUP][3][/SUP][SUP][4][/SUP] was the first in the line of great mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. His works include the Āryabhaṭīya (499 CE, when he was 23 years old)[SUP][5][/SUP] and the Arya-siddhanta. The works of Aryabhata dealt with mainly mathematics and astronomy.
Varāhamihira
pronunciation (help·info) (Devanagari: वराहमिहिर) (505–587 CE), also called Varaha or Mihir, was an Indian astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer who lived in Ujjain. He was born in Avanti region, roughly corresponding to modern-day Malwa, to Adityadasa, who was himself an astronomer. According to one of his own works, he was educated at Kapitthaka.[SUP][1][/SUP] He is considered to be one of the nine jewels (Navaratnas) of the court of legendary ruler Yashodharman Vikramaditya of Malwa.,
Bhāskara[SUP][1][/SUP] (also known as Bhāskarāchārya (“Bhāskara the teacher”), and as Bhāskara II to avoid confusion with Bhāskara I) (1114–1185), was an Indian mathematician and astronomer. He was born in Bijapur in modern Karnataka.[SUP][2][/SUP]
Bhāskara and his works represent a significant contribution to mathematical and astronomical knowledge in the 12th century. He has been called the greatest mathematician of medieval India.[SUP][3][/SUP] His main work Siddhānta Shiromani, (Sanskrit for “Crown of treatises”[SUP][4][/SUP]) is divided into four parts called Lilāvatī, Bījagaṇita, Grahagaṇita and Golādhyāya,[SUP][5][/SUP] which are also sometimes considered four independent works.[SUP][6][/SUP] These four sections deal with arithmetic, algebra, mathematics of the planets, and spheres respectively. He also wrote another treatise named Karaṇa Kautūhala
No wonder artronomy and related supersitions are so big in Indo/Pak. A lot of influential people seem to have worked in astronomy.
Valmiki (Sanskrit: वाल्मीकि; Vālmīki)[SUP][1][/SUP] is celebrated as the harbinger-poet in Sanskrit literature. He is the author of the epic Rāmāyaṇa, based on the attribution in the text of the epic itself.[SUP][2][/SUP] He is revered as the Ādi Kavi, which translates to First Poet, for he invented śloka[SUP][3][/SUP] (i.e. first verse or epic metre), which set the base and defined the form to Sanskrit poetry.
Now I know!
Vyasa appears for the first time as the compiler of, and an important character, in the Mahābhārata. It is said that he was the expansion of Lord Vishnu Himself who came in Dwaparyuga to make all the Vedic knowledge available in written form which was available in Sound form at that time.
He was the son of Satyavati, daughter of the fisherman Dusharaja,[SUP][6][/SUP] and the wandering sage Parashara (who is accredited for being the author of the first Purana: Vishnu Purana). He was born on an island in the river Yamuna.[SUP][7][/SUP] He was dark-complexioned and hence may be called by the name Krishna (black), and also the name Dwaipayana, meaning ‘island-born’.
Hindus traditionally hold that Vyasa categorised the primordial single Veda into four. Hence he was called Veda Vyasa, or “Splitter of the Vedas,” the splitting being a feat that allowed people to understand the divine knowledge of the Veda. The word vyasa means split, differentiate, or describe.
he Vishnu Purana has a theory about Vyasa.[SUP][8][/SUP] The Hindu view of the universe is that of a cyclic phenomenon that comes into existence and dissolves repeatedly. Each cycle is presided over by a number of Manus, one for each Manvantara, that has four ages, Yugas of declining virtues. The Dvapara Yuga is the third Yuga.
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Probably the first influential Indian professor of economics:
Chanakya (c. 370 – c. 283 BCE)[SUP][2]](Arthashastra - Wikipedia)[/SUP] was an Indian teacher, philosopher, and royal advisor.
Originally a professor of economics and political science at the ancient Takshashila University, Chanakya managed the first Maurya emperor Chandragupta’s rise to power at a young age. He is widely credited for having played an important role in the establishment of the Maurya Empire, which was the first empire in archaeologically recorded history to rule most of the Indian subcontinent. Chanakya served as the chief advisor to both Chandragupta and his son Bindusara.
Chanakya is traditionally identified as Kautilya or Vishnu Gupta, who authored the ancient Indian political treatise called Arthasastra (Economics).[SUP][3]](Arthashastra - Wikipedia)[/SUP] As such, he is considered as the pioneer of the field of economics and political science in India, and his work is thought of as an important precursor to classical economics.[SUP][4]](Arthashastra - Wikipedia)[/SUP][SUP][5]](Arthashastra - Wikipedia)[/SUP][SUP][6]](Arthashastra - Wikipedia)[/SUP][SUP][7]](Arthashastra - Wikipedia)[/SUP] His works were lost near the end of the Gupta dynasty and not rediscovered until 1915.[SUP][5]](Arthashastra - Wikipedia)[/SUP]
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^^^^ His other book is Neetishashtra, equally good
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Same is level of Mahmud Gawan of Bahmani dynasty, a political master, faced the similar fate of Chankya
The Bahmani Sultanate (Persian: سلطنت بهمنی; Devanagari: बहमनी सल्तनत ; also called the Bahmanid Empire or Bahmani Kingdom) was a Muslim state of the Deccan in South India and one of the great medieval Indian kingdoms.[SUP][3]](Bahmani Kingdom - Wikipedia)[/SUP] Bahmanid Sultanate was the first independent Islamic Kingdom in South India.[SUP][4]](Bahmani Kingdom - Wikipedia)[/SUP]
The empire was founded by Ala-ud-Din Hassan Bahman Shah who had revolted against the Delhi Sultanate of Muhammad bin Tughlaq. Nazir uddin Ismail Shah who had revolted against the Delhi Sultanate stepped down on that day in favour of Zafar Khan who ascended the throne with the title of Alauddin Bahman Shah. His revolt was successful, and he established an independent state on the Deccan within the Delhi Sultanate’s southern provinces. The Bahmani capital was Ahsanabad (Gulbarga) between 1347 and 1425 when it was moved to Muhammadabad (Bidar). The Bahmani contested the control of the Deccan with the Hindu Vijayanagara Empire to the south. The sultanate reached the peak of its power during the vizierate (1466–1481) of Mahmud Gawan. After 1518 the sultanate broke up into five states: Nizamshahi of Ahmednagar, Qutubshahi of Golconda (Hydrabad), Baridshahi of Bidar, Imadshahi of berar, Adilshahi of Bijapur. They are collectively known as the “Deccan Sultanates”
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Jamsetji Tata
Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata (Gujarati: જમ્શેત્જી નુંસ્સેર્વાનજી ટાટા; 3 March 1839 – 19 May 1904) was an Indian pioneer industrialist, who founded the Tata Group, India's biggest conglomerate company. He was born to a Parsi Zoroastrian family in Navsari then part of the princely state of Baroda.
He founded what would later become the Tata Group of companies. Jamsetji Tata is regarded as the legendary "Father of Indian Industry".[1]
"When you have to give the lead in action, in ideas — a lead which does not fit in with the very climate of opinion — that is true courage, physical or mental or spiritual, call it what you like, and it is this type of courage and vision that Jamsetji Tata showed. It is right that we should honour his memory and remember him as one of the big founders of modern India."— Jawaharlal Nehru