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Also Known As Fa-hsien • Sehi
Flourished 399 - 414
Subjects Of Study India • Buddhism • scripture
Xuanzang
Xuanzang
Buddhist monk
Ram Mohan Roy
Ram Mohan Roy
Indian religious leader
Kumarajiva
Buddhist scholar
Harsha
Indian emperor
Sir Alexander Cunningham
British army officer and archaeologist
Kongara Jaggayya
Indian actor, broadcaster, political leader, and poet
Pietro della Valle
Italian traveler and writer
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian leader
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great
king of Macedonia
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru
prime minister of India
Amit Shah
Amit Shah
Indian politician
Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
English politician and author
Lord Curzon
Lord Curzon
British foreign secretary
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Pakistani governor-general
Narendra Modi
Narendra Modi
prime minister of India
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama
Portuguese navigator
Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi
prime minister of India
Clement Attlee
Clement Attlee
prime minister of United Kingdom
Amitabh Bachchan, 2013
Amitabh Bachchan
Indian actor