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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1st century CE: 14th century CE: 37th century CE: 29th century CE: 110th century CE: 111th century CE: 112th century CE: 413th century CE: 115th century CE: 216th century CE: 418th century CE: 119th century CE: 620th century CE: 3
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1st century CE · 1

Ashvaghosha
Poet / writer · active c. 100 CE
Author of the Buddhacharita, at Kanishka's court

4th century CE · 3

Harisena
Poet / writer · active c. 350 CE
Composer of Samudragupta's Prayaga (Allahabad) pillar inscription
 Kalidasa
Poet / writer · active c. 400 CE
Sanskrit poet-dramatist of Abhijnanashakuntalam and Meghaduta
 Vishakhadatta
Poet / writer · active c. 400 CE
Author of the political drama Mudrarakshasa

7th century CE · 2

Banabhatta
Poet / writer · active c. 630 CE
Author of the Harshacharita and Kadambari
 Ravikirti
Poet / writer · active c. 634 CE
Composer of the Aihole inscription of Pulakeshin II

9th century CE · 1

Rajashekhara
Poet / writer · active c. 900 CE
Author of the Karpuramanjari and Kavyamimamsa

10th century CE · 1

Adikavi Pampa
Poet / writer · c. 902 CE – c. 975 CE
Kannada poet of the Vikramarjuna Vijaya

11th century CE · 1

Bilhana
Poet / writer · active c. 1080
Author of the Vikramankadevacharita

12th century CE · 4

Sekkizhar
Poet / writer · active c. 1135
Author of the Periya Puranam on the Nayanar saints
 Jayadeva
Poet / writer · active c. 1180
Author of the Gita Govinda
 Kamban
Poet / writer · active c. 1180
Author of the Tamil Ramavataram (Kamba Ramayanam)
 Chand Bardai
Poet / writer · active c. 1190
Court poet credited with the Prithviraj Raso

13th century CE · 1

Amir Khusrau
Poet / writer · 1253 – 1325
Persian poet-musician called the 'Parrot of India'

15th century CE · 2

Malik Muhammad Jayasi
Poet / writer · c. 1477 – c. 1542
Author of the Awadhi epic Padmavat
 Surdas
Poet / writer · c. 1478 – c. 1583
Blind Bhakti poet of the Sursagar

16th century CE · 4

Allasani Peddana
Poet / writer · active c. 1520
Called 'Andhra Kavita Pitamaha', chief of the Ashtadiggajas
 Tenali Ramakrishna
Poet / writer · active c. 1520
Telugu poet famed for his wit at Krishnadevaraya's court
 Tulsidas
Poet / writer · c. 1532 – c. 1623
Author of the Ramcharitmanas
 Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan
Poet / writer · 1556 – 1627
Poet of the Rahim ke dohe and general of Akbar

18th century CE · 1

Lalon Fakir
Poet / writer · c. 1774 – c. 1890
Baul mystic poet of Bengal

19th century CE · 6

Mirza Ghalib
Poet / writer · 1797 – 1869
Urdu and Persian poet of Delhi
 Bhanubhakta Acharya
Poet / writer · 1814 – 1868
Adikavi of Nepali who translated the Ramayana
 Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Poet / writer · 1838 – 1894
Author of Anandamath, which contains Vande Mataram
 Rabindranath Tagore
Poet / writer · 1861 – 1941
First Asian Nobel laureate (Literature, 1913)
 Muhammad Iqbal
Poet / writer · 1877 – 1938
Poet of 'Saare Jahan Se Achha'
 Munshi Premchand
Poet / writer · 1880 – 1936
Hindi-Urdu novelist of Godaan

20th century CE · 3

Subramania Bharati
Poet / writer · 1882 – 1921
Tamil nationalist poet 'Mahakavi'
 Kazi Nazrul Islam
Poet / writer · 1899 – 1976
The 'Rebel Poet', national poet of Bangladesh
 Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Poet / writer · 1911 – 1984
Urdu poet of 'Hum Dekhenge'

Dates uncertain · 2

Ilango Adigal
Poet / writer · dates uncertain
Author of the Tamil epic Silappatikaram
 Thiruvalluvar
Poet / writer · dates uncertain
Author of the Tirukkural