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Important Personalities
High-yield personalities for CAPF revision: freedom fighters, reformers, constitution-makers, scientists, and the people behind the CAPFs, in compact tables
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One screen per section. Cover the right column and test yourself. For year-sensitive "current office-holder" facts, verify the latest; the people below are chosen because their association is durable.
| Person |
Associated with |
| Mahatma Gandhi |
Champaran, Kheda, Non-Cooperation, Civil Disobedience (Dandi), Quit India |
| Jawaharlal Nehru |
First PM; "Tryst with Destiny"; Discovery of India |
| Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
"Iron Man"; integration of princely States; first Home Minister |
| Subhas Chandra Bose |
Forward Bloc; Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauj); "Give me blood" |
| Bhagat Singh |
HSRA; Assembly bomb (1929); "Inquilab Zindabad" |
| Lala Lajpat Rai |
"Punjab Kesari"; died after Simon Commission lathi charge |
| Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
"Swaraj is my birthright"; Lal-Bal-Pal trio |
| Bipin Chandra Pal |
Extremist leader; Lal-Bal-Pal trio |
| Maulana Abul Kalam Azad |
INC president; first Education Minister |
| Rani Lakshmibai |
Leader of the 1857 Revolt (Jhansi) |
See last minute history and Index.
| Person |
Associated with |
| Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
Brahmo Samaj; abolition of Sati (1829); "father of modern India" |
| Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar |
Widow Remarriage Act (1856); women's education |
| Swami Dayananda Saraswati |
Arya Samaj; "Back to the Vedas" |
| Swami Vivekananda |
Ramakrishna Mission; 1893 Chicago address |
| Jyotiba Phule |
Satyashodhak Samaj; education for the depressed classes |
| Savitribai Phule |
Pioneer of women's education in India |
| B R Ambedkar |
Drafting Committee Chairman; Dalit rights; Constitution |
| Periyar E V Ramasamy |
Self-Respect Movement (Tamil Nadu) |
| Sir Syed Ahmad Khan |
Aligarh Movement; education among Muslims |
| Office |
First holder |
| President |
Dr Rajendra Prasad |
| Prime Minister |
Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Vice-President |
Dr S Radhakrishnan |
| Speaker of Lok Sabha |
G V Mavalankar |
| Chief Justice of India |
H J Kania |
| Constituent Assembly President |
Dr Rajendra Prasad |
| First woman President |
Pratibha Patil |
| First woman PM |
Indira Gandhi |
| First woman CJI |
(none yet; verify the latest) |
| Person |
Associated with |
| C V Raman |
Raman Effect; Physics Nobel 1930 |
| Homi J Bhabha |
Father of the Indian nuclear programme |
| Vikram Sarabhai |
Father of the Indian space programme; ISRO |
| A P J Abdul Kalam |
"Missile Man"; 11th President |
| Jagadish Chandra Bose |
Plant physiology; radio research |
| Srinivasa Ramanujan |
Mathematician; number theory |
| M S Swaminathan |
Father of the Indian Green Revolution |
| Verghese Kurien |
"Milkman of India"; Operation Flood |
| Har Gobind Khorana |
Genetics; Nobel in Medicine (1968) |
| Person |
Associated with |
| Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
Expansion of the CRPF as the internal-security reserve |
| K F Rustamji |
First Director-General of the BSF |
| Kiran Bedi |
First woman IPS officer (1972) |
| Founding context, ITBP |
Raised 1962 after the India-China war |
| Founding context, BSF |
Raised 1965 after the India-Pakistan war |
See the five capfs in depth and last minute internal security.
| Person |
Associated with |
| Nelson Mandela |
Anti-apartheid; first Black President of South Africa |
| Karl Marx |
Communist Manifesto; Das Kapital |
| Adam Smith |
The Wealth of Nations; "father of economics" |
| Abraham Lincoln |
Abolition of slavery; US Civil War |
| Mikhail Gorbachev |
Glasnost and Perestroika; end of the Cold War |