YugMap Bharat, artharth India

Personalities

Saints, scholars, poets, scientists, reformers, freedom fighters, travellers and commanders who shaped the history of Bharat. Rulers are listed on each polity's page.

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5th century BCE: 14th century BCE: 12nd century BCE: 15th century CE: 110th century CE: 112th century CE: 213th century CE: 114th century CE: 116th century CE: 417th century CE: 118th century CE: 119th century CE: 420th century CE: 2
5th century BCE21 personalities by century — click a bar to jump there20th century CE

5th century BCE · 1

Panini
Scholar / historian · active c. 400 BCE
Author of the Ashtadhyayi, the classic Sanskrit grammar

4th century BCE · 1

Chanakya (Kautilya)
Scholar / historian · active c. 320 BCE
Author of the Arthashastra and adviser to Chandragupta Maurya

2nd century BCE · 1

Patanjali
Scholar / historian · active c. 150 BCE
Grammarian who wrote the Mahabhashya on Panini

5th century CE · 1

Buddhaghosa
Scholar / historian · active c. 430 CE
Author of the Visuddhimagga

10th century CE · 1

Al-Biruni
Scholar / historian · c. 973 CE – c. 1050
Author of the Kitab al-Hind, a study of India

12th century CE · 2

Hemachandra
Scholar / historian · c. 1088 – c. 1173
Jain polymath at the court of Kumarapala
 Kalhana
Scholar / historian · active c. 1148
Author of the Rajatarangini, the chronicle of Kashmir

13th century CE · 1

Minhaj-i-Siraj
Scholar / historian · active c. 1260
Historian who wrote the Tabaqat-i-Nasiri

14th century CE · 1

Ziauddin Barani
Scholar / historian · c. 1285 – c. 1357
Historian who wrote the Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi

16th century CE · 4

Gulbadan Begum
Scholar / historian · 1523 – 1603
Babur's daughter who wrote the Humayun-nama
 Abdul Qadir Badayuni
Scholar / historian · c. 1540 – c. 1615
Historian who wrote the Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh
 Abul Fazl
Scholar / historian · 1551 – 1602
Author of the Akbarnama and Ain-i-Akbari
 Muhammad Qasim Ferishta
Scholar / historian · c. 1560 – c. 1620
Historian of the Deccan who wrote the Tarikh-i-Ferishta

17th century CE · 1

Dara Shikoh
Scholar / historian · 1615 – 1659
Mughal prince who translated the Upanishads into Persian

18th century CE · 1

Sir William Jones
Scholar / historian · 1746 – 1794
Founder of the Asiatic Society of Bengal

19th century CE · 4

James Prinsep
Scholar / historian · 1799 – 1840
Deciphered the Brahmi script and Ashoka's edicts
 Alexander Cunningham
Scholar / historian · 1814 – 1893
Founder of the Archaeological Survey of India
 Sir John Marshall
Scholar / historian · 1876 – 1958
ASI Director-General who announced the Indus civilization in 1924
 Daya Ram Sahni
Scholar / historian · 1879 – 1939
Archaeologist who excavated Harappa in 1921

20th century CE · 2

R. D. Banerji
Scholar / historian · 1885 – 1930
Archaeologist who excavated Mohenjo-daro in 1922
 Amartya Sen
Scholar / historian · born 1933
Nobel laureate in Economics (1998)