An Indian lawyer turned social worker who took on the challenge of helping impoverished and marginalized women in Gujarat, India.

An Indian freedom fighter and spiritual teacher who founded the Bhoodan Movement (Gift of Land) and advocated nonviolence and human right

An Indian social reformer and freedom fighter most remembered for her contribution to the Indian independence movement

A young, idealistic civil servant in the Indian Forest Service and later on the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, who did not turn away from the corruption infesting government but resolutely worked to correct them

An Indian reporter who saw the modern Indian intellectual as the heir to an ethical system and a philosophical culture, and who is judged by his honesty, self-sacrifice and the urge he shows to public service

An Indian physician and activist in family planning andpopulation control and pioneered programmes of community health workers in rural areas of Maharashtra, the third largest state in India

A respected Indian social activist, associate of Mahatma Gandhi, and a pioneer of rural development who devoted his life to uplifting the rural poor of Uruli thru his nature cure Ashram which continues to this day and is well known throughout India

India's much respected civil servant who introduced basic reforms and developed the financial institutions he headed during the country?s critical period of expansion

An Indian author who creatively and cleverly fused indigenous oral histories with contemporary events to explore the bitter and often bloody relationship between tribal communities and India's domineering classes and systems