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Guru Gobind Singh Ji(1671-1708)

• 10th Sikh Guru
• Born at Patna Sahib, Bihar
• Khalsa Panth
• Battles of Anandpur(1700) and  Chamkaur (1704) against Mughals
• Wrote Zafarnamah (1705)

Sri Aurobindo Ghosh

• 150th Birth Anniversary (15 August, 1872, Cacutta)
• Bengali poet, philosopher, spiritual leader and revolutionary freedom fighter, Yogi
• He scored 11 th rank in the ICS Exam
• 1st leaders to demand a mass-based movement for India's Independence

Political Contribution

• Anushilan Samiti (1902)
• Alipore Conspiracy case in (1908)
• Extremist group (Surat Split 1907)

Spiritual Contributions

• Magazine: Arya
• Fonded Shri Aurobindo Ashram (1926) with Mirra Alfassa 
• Integral Yoga

Literary Contributions

• New Lamps for Old (Criticizing moderate politics of Congress)
• Bande Mataram (english)
• Karmayogin (English)
• Dharma (Bengali)
• Jugantar Patrika
• Bhawani Mandir

Dayanand Saraswati (1824-1883)

• 200th birth anniversary
• Arya Samaj in 1875
• Satyarth Prakash (1875)
• He is credited to have first used the term swaraj (self-rule) in 1875
• go back to the Vedas
• Dayanand Anglo-Vedic schools and colleges
• died under suspicious circumstances in 1883