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Bal Gangadhar Tilak was born as Keshav Gangadhar Tilak on 23 July 1856. His ancestral village was Chikhali. His father, Gangadhar Tilak was a school teacher and a Sanskrit scholar. In 1871 Tilak was married to Tapibai ( Née Bal) when he was…
Dadabhai Naoroji was born in 1825 in Khadak, near Bombay. Dadabhai Naoroji was the only son of Naoroji Palanji Dordi, a Parsi priest, and his wife, Manekbai. In 1845, he graduated and went to London as a business partner in a firm….
Raja Ram Mohan Roy was born on 22 May 1772 in Radhanagar, West Bengal to Ramakanta and Tarini Devi. Ram Mohan started his formal education in the village pathshala where he learned Bengali and some Sanskrit and Persian. Later he studied Persian…
1 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was born on 11 November 1888 in Mecca, Saudi Arabia to Maulana Khairuddin. His Father was a Bengali Muslim from Afghanistan. 2 He belonged to an orthodox family. So, he pursued traditional Islamic education at home in…
1 Rani Lakshmibai (Rani of Jhansi) was born on 19 November 1828 in Varanasi into a Marathi Brahmin family. She was named Manikarnika and was nicknamed Manu. 2 Manikarnika father was Moropant Tambe and her mother Bhagirathi Sapre (Bhagirathi Bai). Her parents…
Lord Mahavira was 24th and last Tirthankar of Jainism. He was born in 599 BC to royal family of Licchavis near Vaishali(Bihar). His father was a chief of Jnatra Clan. Ascetic Life Mahavira belong to rich and wealthy family. However, he gave…
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was born on 26 September 1820 in Midnapore, West Bengal. He was born to Thakurdas Bandyopadhyaya and Bhagmati Devi. His parents sent him to local village pathshala in 1825. He love and respect his parents and was greatly influenced…
Vivekananda was born Narendranath Datta (shortened to Narendra or Naren) in a Bengali Kayastha family on 12th January 1863. He was born at his ancestral home in Calcutta during the Makar Sankranti festival. His father, Vishwanath Datta, was an attorney at the…