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.
15th century CE · 1
16th century CE · 3
Birbal
Statesman / administrator · 1528 – 1586
Minister and famed wit at Akbar's court
Raja Todar Mal
Statesman / administrator · died 1589
Akbar's finance minister who devised the zabt revenue system
Nur Jahan
Statesman / administrator · 1577 – 1645
Jahangir's empress and the power behind his throne
18th century CE · 1
19th century CE · 4
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Statesman / administrator · 1800 – 1859
Author of the 1835 Minute on Indian Education
Allan Octavian Hume
Statesman / administrator · 1829 – 1912
Retired civil servant who helped found the Indian National Congress
Jamsetji Tata
Statesman / administrator · 1839 – 1904
Founder of the Tata Group
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Statesman / administrator · 1875 – 1950
'Iron Man of India' who integrated the princely states
20th century CE · 6
Rajendra Prasad
Statesman / administrator · 1884 – 1963
First President of India
Jawaharlal Nehru
Statesman / administrator · 1889 – 1964
First Prime Minister of India
B. R. Ambedkar
Statesman / administrator · 1891 – 1956
Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constitution
Syama Prasad Mookerjee
Statesman / administrator · 1901 – 1953
Founder of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh
J. R. D. Tata
Statesman / administrator · 1904 – 1993
Founded Tata Airlines, India's first airline, in 1932
Ram Manohar Lohia
Statesman / administrator · 1910 – 1967
Socialist leader of the Samyukta Socialist Party