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66Bankim Chandra Chatterjee was the pioneer of the novel genre in Bengal. He was born in the village Kanthalpara in Naihati, West Bengal. His stories are wellknown for their sincerity and realism.Premchand was born on 31 July 1880 in the village Lamahi near Varanasi. He began a new trend in Hindi literature. His stories were for and from the lives of common men, thereby touching a chord in the hearts of his readers. He was the pioneerofmodernsocialfiction.Subhadra Kumari Chauhan was born in 1904 in the village Nihalpur near Allahabad. She took active part in India%u2019s struggleforfreedom.Shewasthefirstwoman to court arrest in Nagpur. Her most popular poem is %u2018Jhansi Ki Rani%u2019.There are many famous personalities of India who are admired till today. Let us read about some of them.