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The following article is a list of Indian scientists spanning from Ancient to Modern India, who have had a major impact in the field of science and technology. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
With his book Hind Swaraj (1909) Gandhi, aged 40, declared that British rule was established in India with the co-operation of Indians and had survived only because of this co-operation. If Indians refused to co-operate, British rule would collapse and swaraj (Indian independence) would come. [5] [116]
It also does not include not a new idea, indigenous alternatives, low-cost alternatives, technologies or discoveries developed elsewhere and later invented separately in India, nor inventions by Indian emigres or Indian diaspora in other places. Changes in minor concepts of design or style and artistic innovations do not appear in the lists.
Vethathiri Maharishi (1911 - 2006) Indian yoga guru, philosopher and spiritual leader, Aliyar Tamilnadu State; Vadiraja Tirtha (1480–1600) Vasugupta (~ 800–850 CE), author of the Shiva Sutras in Kashmiri Shaivism; Vedanta Desika, SriVaishnava Philosopher and Guru (c. 1268 – c. 1369) Vidyaranya (c. 1268 – c. 1386) Vidyadheesh Teertha Swamiji
Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai (12 August 1919 – 30 December 1971) was an Indian physicist and astronomer who initiated space research and helped to develop nuclear power in India. Often regarded as the "Father of Indian space program", [2] Sarabhai was honored with Padma Bhushan in 1966 and the Padma Vibhushan (posthumously) in 1972.
Rabindranath Tagore was the first person of Indian origin and also first Asian to be awarded with the Nobel Prize. [1] He received the prize for Literature in 1913.. The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed on "those who conferred the greatest benefit on humankind" in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences, [A ...
Agyeya, Indian poet and writer who received Jnanpith Award & Golden Wreath Award [239] Banabhatta wrote India's first novel and was a poet in King Harsha's court [240] Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian Poet who wrote India's national song Vande Matram [241] [242] D. R. Bendre [243] Garimella Satyanarayana, Telugu poet and freedom fighter [244]
The main imperial or quasi-imperial rulers of North India are fairly clear from this point on, but many local rulers, and the situation in the Deccan and South India has less clear stone inscriptions from early centuries. Main sources of South Indian history is Sangam Literature dated from 300s BCE. Time period of ancient Indian rulers is ...