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20th-century Indian philosophers

  • Mahatma GandhiMohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on the 2nd of October 1869 in Porbandar, a coastal town on the Kathiawar Peninsula. His father Karamchand Uttamchand…
  • Jawaharlal NehruJawaharlal Nehru was born on the 14th of November 1889 in Allahabad, British India. He grew up in the Anand Bhavan mansion with his mother Swarup Rani and…
  • Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore was born on the 7th of May 1861 inside the Jorasanko mansion in Calcutta. He was the youngest of thirteen surviving children to…
  • B. R. AmbedkarIn the town of Mhow, a young boy named Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar sat on a gunny sack during school hours. He could not sit inside the classroom like other…
  • Vinayak Damodar SavarkarVinayak Damodar Savarkar began his political activities as a high school student in 1895. He led fellow students in an attack on the village mosque following…