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C. R. Das was the Calcutta barrister who defended Aurobindo Ghosh in the Alipore bomb case, gave up a large practice for the non-cooperation movement, and founded the Swaraj Party with Motilal Nehru to contest the legislative councils.

Milkha Singh was a sprinter who won the four hundred metres gold at the Commonwealth Games of 1958 and at the Asian Games, and who finished fourth in the four hundred metres final at the Rome Olympics of 1960.

Kurien built the cooperative dairy at Anand in Gujarat, gave the country the Amul brand and headed the National Dairy Development Board, whose Operation Flood turned India into a large milk producer.

Sarabhai set up the Physical Research Laboratory at Ahmedabad, persuaded the government that a developing country needed space technology for communication and weather, and built the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station in Kerala, so he is called the father of the Indian space programme.

Kalam worked on the SLV-3 launch vehicle and then led the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme, out of which the Agni, Prithvi, Trishul, Akash and Nag missiles came, and that work gave him the name Missile Man of India.

The historian V. A. Smith first described Samudragupta as the Napoleon of India, because of the long list of kings and republics he subdued, recorded in the Allahabad pillar inscription, or Prayag Prashasti, composed by his court poet Harisena.

He organised the Khudai Khidmatgar, the servants of God, also known as the Red Shirts, in the North West Frontier Province, and he held to non-violence so completely that he became known as the Frontier Gandhi, or Sarhadi Gandhi.

Valentine Chirol, a British journalist, used the phrase Father of Indian Unrest for Tilak in his writing on Indian politics, and Tilak sued him for libel in England.

Naoroji was a founder of the Indian National Congress, its President three times, and the first Indian to be elected to the British House of Commons.

Naidu was a poet in English whose collections include The Golden Threshold and The Bird of Time, and the lyrical quality of her verse earned her the name Nightingale of India, or Bharat Kokila.

Bose addressed Gandhi as the Father of the Nation in a radio broadcast made while he was leading the Azad Hind movement during the Second World War, and the phrase has stayed with Gandhi ever since.

Patel was the first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister of India, and he persuaded or pressed more than five hundred princely states into joining the Indian Union after 1947.

The National Institute of Oceanography, a laboratory of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, works from Dona Paula near Panaji in Goa and studies the physics, chemistry, biology and geology of the Indian Ocean.

The Assam Rifles traces its origin to the Cachar Levy raised in 1835, which makes it the oldest of the central armed police forces, and its Directorate General works from Shillong in Meghalaya.

The North Eastern Railway works from Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, and its station there is known for one of the longest railway platforms in the world.

Bharat Dynamics Limited was set up in 1970 at Hyderabad to produce guided missiles for the armed forces, and it works closely with the DRDO missile laboratories DRDL and the Research Centre Imarat, which are in the same city.

ISRO was formed in 1969 and its headquarters, along with the office of the Department of Space, is at Bengaluru, which also holds the U R Rao Satellite Centre where satellites are assembled and the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network.

The Central Food Technological Research Institute, a laboratory of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, works at Mysuru in Karnataka on food processing, preservation, packaging and nutrition, and many processes used by the Indian food industry were developed there.

The National Dairy Research Institute, an institution of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, works from Karnal in Haryana and does research on milk production, dairy technology and cattle breeding.

It was founded in 1767, soon after the battle of Plassey, to map the territory the East India Company had acquired, and it is therefore counted as the oldest scientific department of the country.