Authors

A. C. Clayton

British missionary and scholar who worked in South India from 1892. Author of works on Tamil culture, Indian religion, and Vedic studies, including 'The Rig-Veda and Vedic Religion' and 'The Tamil Bible Dictionary'.

Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough

1859 - 1940

American Baptist missionary, scholar, and author who spent nearly three decades in India documenting the lives, traditions, and mass conversion of the Madigas, a Telugu Pariah tribe.

F. Max Müller

1823 - 1900

German-born philologist and Orientalist who became one of the founders of comparative religion and mythology. Best known for his monumental edition of the Rig Veda and his passionate advocacy for Sanskrit studies.

Harihar Das

1890 - 1958

Indian biographer and scholar best known for his definitive biography of the poet Toru Dutt, published by Oxford University Press in 1921.

Henry Beveridge

1837 - 1929

Scottish historian and civil servant in British India who wrote extensively on Indian history and translated major Persian historical works including the Akbar-nama.

Jacob Canter Visscher

1692 - 1735

Dutch Reformed Church chaplain who served at Cochin in the early 18th century.

John Nicol Farquhar

1861 - 1929

Scottish missionary, Orientalist, and scholar of Indian religions who pioneered the study of modern religious movements in India

K. A. Nilakanta Sastri

1892 - 1975

Eminent Indian historian and Indologist, regarded as the greatest professional historian of South India. Author of numerous definitive works on South Indian history, including the classic 'A History of South India'.

Lala Lajpat Rai

1865 - 1928

Indian freedom fighter, politician, and author popularly known as Punjab Kesari (Lion of Punjab). A prominent member of the Lal Bal Pal trio, he was an outspoken advocate of militant anti-British nationalism and prolific writer on Indian economic and political conditions.

Maurice Bloomfield

1855 - 1928

American Sanskrit scholar and professor at Johns Hopkins University, renowned for his Vedic Concordance and authoritative works on Vedic religion and the Atharva-Veda.

Romesh Chunder Dutt

1848 - 1909

Indian civil servant, economist, and nationalist leader who pioneered the study of colonial economic exploitation

Sarojini Naidu

1879 - 1949

Known as the 'Nightingale of India,' Sarojini Naidu was a poet, political activist, and freedom fighter.

Sir Herbert Hope Risley

1851 - 1911

British ethnographer and colonial administrator who conducted extensive studies on the tribes and castes of India, and led the 1901 Census of India.

Sir William Wilson Hunter

1840 - 1900

Scottish historian,statistician, and compiler of the Imperial Gazetteer of India. Hunter dedicated his career to documenting Indian history and geography, producing comprehensive surveys that remain valuable historical sources.

Sophia Dobson Collet

1822 - 1894

English author and biographer best known for her definitive biography of Raja Rammohun Roy. Despite being a lifelong invalid, she conducted extensive research to preserve the life story of the great Indian reformer.