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Know It! Swami Dayanand Saraswati studied different religions and

v In the evil Sati custom, the showed how they were based on wrong principles. He set
widowed wife jumped in up the Arya Samaj.
the burning pyre of her
dead husband, often out Sir Saiyed Ahmed
of compulsion. Khan took steps for
education amongst
Muslims as he realized that illiteracy among the
Muslims was the root cause of their problems.
He set up a college at Aligarh, now known as
Aligarh Muslim University. He opposed the Dayanand Saraswati Ramabai Ranade
purdah (or veil) system.
Know It!
Ramabai Ranade worked in West India, mainly Maharashtra.
She believed that education would uplift the condition of v In the purdah system, a
women. She worked for women education and also made woman covers her face
or entire body when
arrangements for their training and employment. She set up
she comes before other
Seva Sadans to help the poor children.
men.

Scientists

India was making a great progress in science in the ancient times. During the medieval
times, this progress was shelved because of invaders. In ancient times, many scientists
worked to unfold the mysteries of nature and make our life easy. India has given the
concept of the zero, the digits from 1 to 9 and the decimal system to the world. The
Ayurvedic system of medicine was created by the Indian medicine men.

Charaka and Sushruta were famous physicians of the ancient period. Aryabhatta and
Varahimihira were famous astronomers. We find their calculations correct even now.
Patanjali propounded the concepts of Yoga to keep healthy. It is followed even today by
a large number of people around the world.

Know It!

v 21 June is observed
as the International
Day of Yoga.

Aryabhatta Homi Bhabha C. V. Raman

In the present times, C.V. Raman, J.C. Bose and Homi Bhabha have discovered several
scientific principles. C.V. Raman was given the Nobel Prize in Physics. Dr. A.P.J.
Abdul Kalam helped make India a missile power.

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