Böcker av H. D. Sharma

This is a well-documented set of a hundred short biographies of people who have left their footprintsin the sands of Indian history in different ways. The figures included lived in the last two hundredyears, but are no longer alive. Included are persons from almost every field of activity-writers,artists, scientists, social reformers, educationalists, politicians and freedom fighters. Several Britishpeople who spent a major part of their adult lives in India and contributed in a major way to thecountry are also included.This is a unique volume for all those interested in the larger-than-life figures in India's turbulenthistory over the past two centuries.