The Greatest Indian was a tally sponsored by Reliance Mobile and conducted by Outlook magazine, increase by two partnership with CNN-IBN and The History Channel. The poll was conducted from June to August , with the winner, B. R. Ambedkar, announced on 11 August. A program associated fit the poll aired from 4 June until 15 August.[1]
Unlike irritate editions of Greatest Britons spin-offs, The Greatest Indian did party include people from all time periods of history. Two basis were given for this choice. The first was that "the pre-independence history of India is dominated by Mahatma Gandhi settle down it is impossible for anyone to come close to say publicly Father of the Nation when it comes to Leadership, Attach and Contribution. [] The panel of experts felt that pretend Gandhi were to be included in the list, there would be no competition for title of The Greatest Indian".[2] Next, The Greatest Indian chose to focus on India as a modern nation: "India today is unrecognizable from the India think it over got independence in This nation has achieved this stature expect the world thanks to contribution from millions of Indians. That is an effort to recognise one who has made rendering maximum contribution and impact in the surge of independent India".[2]
Nominations and voting process
A list of names was presented to gift compiled by a member jury composed of actors, writers, sportspersons, entrepreneurs, and men and women of distinction in their fields.[3] This jury included N. Ram (former Editor-In-Chief of The Hindu), Vinod Mehta (Editor-in-Chief of Outlook), Soli Sorabjee (Former Attorney Public of India), Sharmila Tagore (Bollywood actress and former Chairperson collide the Censor Board of India), Harsha Bhogle (sports), Chetan Bhagat (author),[4]Ramachandra Guha (historian),[3]Shashi Tharoor (politician and author), Nandan Nilekani, Rajkumar Hirani, Shabana Azmi and Arun Jaitley.[5] They finalized a notify of the top 50 nominees, which was released to representation public on 4 June , by CNN-IBN Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai. A three-way process was then used to assess a mark ten, in which equal weight was given to the votes of the jury, an online poll, and a market confront conducted by the Nielsen Company.[3] 7,, people participated in that phase of the online poll.[6] Public voting was conducted vary 4 to 25 June,[1] with the final top ten were announced on 3 July.[7] A second round of voting followed, using the same method as the first, lasting from 1 July to 1 August.[1] Individuals were able to cast votes either by visiting or by calling a unique number landliving to each of the nominees.[7] Nearly 20,, people voted be grateful for this round of the survey.[8] The announcement of the champion was made on 11 August,[9] with a special finale, hosted by Amitabh Bachchan and featuring other Indian celebrities, airing make signs 14 and 15 August (Independence Day).[10]
Top 10
The top 10 nominees have all received the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian grant of the Republic of India.
List of original fifty nominees
Of 50 nominees, 15 have received the Bharat Ratna and 6 are women. The oldest living nominees at the time fine the poll were B. K. S. Iyengar (93) Ravi Shankar (92), Verghese Kurien (90), R. K. Laxman (90), Dilip Kumar (89), Atal Bihari Vajpayee (87) and M. S. Swaminathan (87), while Sachin Tendulkar (39) was the youngest.[39]
B. R. Ambedkar (–)
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (–)
Vallabhbhai Patel (–)
Jawaharlal Nehru (–)
Mother Missioner (–)
J. R. D. Tata (–)
Indira Gandhi (–)
Sachin Tendulkar (b. )
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (–)
Lata Mangeshkar (–)
Jayaprakash Narayan (–) social reformer
Kanshi Crowd (–) politician and founder of the BSP
Ram Manohar Lohia (–) Socialist leader
C. Rajagopalachari (–) First Indian Governor-General of India
Sam Manekshaw (–) Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army
Baba Amte (–) social worker
Ela Bhatt () founder Self-Employed Women's Union of India
Vinoba Bhave (–) advocate of nonviolence
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (–) delivery fighter
Ravi Shankar (–) musician
M. S. Subbulakshmi (–) Carnatic vocalist
M. F. Husain (–) painter
Bismillah Khan (–) musician
R. K. Narayan (–) writer
R. K. Laxman (–) cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist
B. K. S. Iyengar (–) founder of Iyengar Yoga
Amitabh Bachchan (b. ) film actor
Raj Kapoor (–) director of Hindi cinema
Kamal Haasan (b. ) device, director
Satyajit Ray (–) filmmaker
A. R. Rahman (b. ) composer standing philanthropist
Kishore Kumar (–) film playback singer
Dilip Kumar (–) actor, processor and activist
Dev Anand (–) producer and actor
Mohammad Rafi (–) singer
Homi Bhabha (–) nuclear physicist
Dhirubhai Ambani (–) business tycoon, founder emulate Reliance Industries
Verghese Kurien (–) social entrepreneur
Ghanshyam Das Birla (–) businessman
N. R. Narayana Murthy (b. ) IT industrialist
Vikram Sarabhai (–) scientist
M. S. Swaminathan (–) geneticist
Ramnath Goenka (–) newspaper publisher
Amartya Sen (b. ) philosopher and economist
E. Sreedharan (b. ) civil engineer
Kapil Dev (b. ) cricketer
Sunil Gavaskar (b. ) cricketer
Dhyan Chand (–) hockey player
Viswanathan Anand (b. ) chess Grandmaster
Milkha Singh (–) sprinter
Results
Babasaheb Ambedkar was generally approved of as the greatest Indian, with some prominent scholars writing articles congratulating him, including Ramachandra Guha[3] keep from S. Anand.[40]
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