He was born on 23rd April on 1873 at Jankhidi in Mysore State. His father Ramji was a deeply religious man with liberal ideas about caste restrictions. Shinde got married to Ruminibai in 1882. He got his B.A. and L.L.B in 1898. He got the Diploma in comparative religion from Manchester College, Oxford, in 1903. He began his public life in 1903 as an active member of the Prarthana Samaj and Secretary of its Bombay Branch.

He devoted his whole life for the upliftment of the depressed classes, became the president of Anti-touchability League and he was the founder of Depressed Classes Mission Society of India. By 1912 the Mission was running twenty four Schools and five hostels in different parts of India. The Mission developed its work in Poona and by 1910 it had its own buildings and hostels, known as ‘Ahalyashram’.

He also took part in Salt Satyagraha in 1930. He died on 2nd January 1940 after a long life of devoted service of the People, rightly earned the title of ‘Karmavir’ by which he is known and remembered.

The real name of Acharya Vinoba Bhave was Vinayak Narahar Bhave. He was born on 11th September, 1895 in a village called Gagode in Konkan region.

He led a very simple life and adopted celibacy at the tender age of 10 and studied ‘Upanishads’ at the age of 12.

In 1916, Gandhiji gave his historic speech at the inauguration ceremony of Benares Hindu University, it influenced Bhave very much and he joined Gandhiji at Kochrab Ashram, Ahmedabad in the month of June, 1916. Here he did all the important works of the Ashram like grinding corns, cleaning toilets, studying ancient and religious scriptures.

He actively participated in Nagpur Flag Satyagraha, Temple Entry Movement in Kerala and the Salt March.

Later, he went to Wardha and there he worked in the rural areas of Pavnaar and Gopuri. In 1940 during the Second World War, he was selected by Gandhiji as the first individual Satyagrahi to oppose this War. He was imprisoned on the first day of Quit India Movement, 1942.

After the martyrdom of Gandhiji, Vinobaji formed Sarvodaya Samaj for the people who believed in truth and non-violence. He also worked amongst the refugees. He started various socio-economic activities like Shramdan, Bhoodan and Gramdan Movements. These were the forces of silent revolution for the social change.

This real Gandhi in action breathed his last on 15th November, 1982.

Tanwar Dass Lilaram Vaswani was born in Hyderabad City of Sindh Province now in Pakistan, on 25^st November, 1879. His father was Lilaram and the mother was Varan Bai. Vaswani came from the educated and enlightened ‘Amil’, community of Sindh. He was brought up in a simple and austere manner.

Popularly known as Sadhu Vaswani, he was a famous educationist, patriot, social reformer, great humanist and spiritual thinker.

A brilliant Student, an Ellis Scholar, and a Fellow of the D.J. Sindh College, Karachi, after his M.A., he was a professor at the Metropolitan College, Calcutta, for three years (1903-06), and then Professor at the D.J. Sindh College, Karachi (1906-12).

A born orator, he moved across the length and breadth of India and around the world to spread the message of love, compassion, wisdom, truth etc.

In 1929 in Sindh he started the ‘Sakhi Satsang” – an organization dedicated to the regeneration of Indian Women. In 1939 he visited Ceylon and presided over the Pan-Asian Conference for Peace.

He represented India in the World Religion Conference, which was held in Berlin in the year 1910.

He was a leading supporter of the Non-Cooperation movement and a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi.

He wrote many books on nationalism and patriotism like Jagrat Bharat, Jago Yuva Bharat, and Meri Matrubhumi.

After partition, he settled in Poona and it became the centre of his educational and spiritual activities. He was a prolific writer and wrote nearly 100 books in English language and around 300 books in Sindhi.

In 1966 on 16^th January his earthly pilgrimage ended.

He was born on 31^st October 1875 at Nadiad, in Gujarat in an agriculturist family. He got early education at Nadiad High School and in 1887 he passed matriculation.

He was a famous lawyer of Borsad in the Kheda district. In 1910 he joined the Middle Temple, England and in 1912 he was called to the Bar and became barrister. On his return to India in 1913 he set up practice in Ahmedabad and made a great success of it.

He was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi, actively took part in Kheda Satyagraha, after no tax campaign in Bardoli he became Sardar, was imprisoned several times for taking part in India’s struggle for freedom : in Salt March, Civil Disobedience Movement and Quit India Movement. He was elected as the President of Indian National Congress in 1931, responsible for the integration of 562 small provinces to the India Union in 1947-48, popularly known as Iron Man of India.

He became the first Home and Information and Broadcasting Minister of Independent India. He reorganized services as the New Indian Administrative Service to provide a stable administrative machinery to our new democracy.

At the age of 75 he died on 15^th December, 1950.

He was born on 29^th November, 1869 at Bhavnagar in Saurashtra. His father’s name was Vithaldas Thakkar. His mother’s name was Mulima. He get his primary education at Bhavanagar and Dholera. He got from Engineering College his L.C.E. (Licentiate of Civil Engineering) degree in 1890.

He was a leading social worker and freedom fighter and devoted his whole life for the upliftment of the poor especially Harijan and Tribal  people. He also organized so many famine relief works in various parts of the country.

He became the General Secretary of Harijan Sewak Sangh. He along with Gandhiji, travelled whole India during 1933-34 to see and know the condition of the Harijan people. From 1934 to 1937 he was busy with Harijan work.

He was a devoted member of the Servants of India Society. He took several initiatives for the Welfare of the Tribal people and established Gond Seva Sangh in Mandale in Central province in 1944, now this Sangh is called ‘Vanvasi Seva Mandal’.

In 1944, he organized the Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust and was appointed Secretary of the fund. Thakkar Bapa presented Gandhiji with a purse of Rs. 85 lakhs which had been collected in memory of Kasturba, on Gandhiji’s 75^th birthday at Sevagram. From October 1946 to March 1947, he was at Noakhali and other districts of East Bengal with Gandhiji among the victims of Communal Riots.

To him service of humanity was the service of God. He was a man of action. He died on 19^th January, 1951.

He was born on 8th December 1875 at Aligarh, studied his B.A. and     M. A. (English), he also did LL.B, LL.M and LL.D from Agra College, was a leading Advocate, was the Member of Imperial Legislative Council, was appointed as the Law Member of Lord Reading’s Executive Council, but resigned and returned to the practice of law and to public life in 1921.

He was an active member of All Parties Committee of 1928, of which Pandit Motilal Nehru was the Chairman. He actively joined India’s struggle for freedom. For the constitutional development of India he founded National Convention, became the active member of Indian National Congress and also attended all the three Round Table Conferences.

Here he made a powerful plea for the status of equality for India with the other Self-Governing Dominions and an administration, not merely responsive but constitutionally responsible to the popular voice.

He also became the member of Privy Council in London in 1934.

He took a keen interest in the establishment of Indian Council of World Affairs in New Delhi in 1943 and became its President till his death on
20th January, 1949.

Dr. Sushila Nayyar was born on 26th December, 1914 in Punjab. Her father’s name was Vrindavan Nayyar.

From Lady Hardinge College, Delhi, she completed M.B.B.S., and M.D. course and from John Hopkins, Baltimore, she did Masters and Doctorate in Social and Preventive Medicine.

She participated in Quit India Movement 1942 and was detained in Aga Khan Palace, Poona. She toured riots-affected villages of Noakhali in
1946-47, and worked for peace and communal harmony. She worked as a personal physician of Gandhiji.

She was the Chief Medical Officer of Badshah Khan Memorial Hospital, Faridabad, the President of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. She worked hard in establishing Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences at Sevagram, in a rural surrounding so that aspirants would like to work in the rural area.

She actively took part in the preparation and celebration of the Centenary of Mahatma Gandhi. She completed unfinished Biography of Gandhiji which was supposed to be done by Pyarelal, her brother.

She also joined politics and became M.L.A., M.P. and was also the Health Minister in the Union Government.

At Sevagram, Wardha, she breathed her last on 3rd January, 2001 due to cardiac arrest.

Born on 23rd January, in 1897 at Cuttack, Odisha. He got education from Calcutta and Cambridge University and in 1920 he joined I.C.S. at an early young age, but resigned in 1921 and joined Non-Co-operation movement.

He became the member of Calcutta Corporation, actively took part in boycott of Simon Commission and Civil Disobedience Movement 1930, was imprisoned on several occasions, became the Congress President in 1938 at Hairpura and in 1939 again at Tripuri he was elected Congress President.

He wanted to achieve India’s freedom through the method different from Gandhiji’s so in April 1939, he resigned from the Congress and established All India Forward Bloc. He also took the leadership of Indian National Army on August 25, 1943.

He proclaimed the Provisional Government of Azad Hind on October 21, 1943 and he shifted its headquarter from Singapore to Rangoon in 1944 and marching thence towards their motherland with the war cry “Chalo Delhi” on their lips. He was hailed as Netaji by the Indian People.

He died on 18th August 1945 in an air crash in Taiwan Taipe.