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Born 1872 • Punjab • India
Died 1957 (aged 85) • Punjab • India
Founder “Khālsā Samācār”
Subjects Of Study Sikhism
Guru Gobind Singh, 18th century, Punjab
Guru Gobind Singh
Sikh Guru
Amrita Pritam
Amrita Pritam
Indian author and poet
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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Indian author
Guru Nanak
Guru Nanak
founder of Sikhism
Indian writer Khushwant Singh in his study
Khushwant Singh
Indian writer
Portrait of Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore with long wavy hair and a full beard, wearing a simple robe and looking directly at the camera.
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet
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Kabir
Indian mystic and poet
Vikram Seth, 2010
Vikram Seth
Indian author
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Kamala Das
Indian author
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Shamsur Rahman
Bengali poet, journalist, and human rights advocate
Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed
American author
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Jeannette Leonard Gilder
American editor and writer
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Viktor Rydberg
Swedish author
Kemal, Namik
Namık Kemal
Turkish author and social reformer
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
American poet and journalist
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Jacob Glatstein
American author and literary critic
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Nick Joaquin
Filipino author
Henry Brooke, engraving by C. Pye after a drawing by J. Thurston from a portrait by the subject's nephew Henry Brooke
Henry Brooke
Irish author
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Antal
Indian poet
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Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
Indian writer

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