India's 50 most illustrious women

Introduction

[Pt. 1] Bharat Ratna

1. Aruna Asaf Ali

2. Indira Gandhi

3. Lata Mangeshkar

4. M.S. Subbulakshmi

5. Mother Teresa

[Pt. 2]

Freedom Struggle. 6. Annie Besant

7. Bhikaji Cama

8. Kasturba Gandhi

9. Lakshmi Sahgal

10. Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

11. Sarojini Naidu

12. Usha Mehta

13. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

[Pt. 3]

Social Reform. 14. Aruna Roy

15. Banoo Jehangir Coyaji

16. Ela Bhatt

17. Fatima Bi

18. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

19. Kiran Bedi

20. Medha Patkar

21. Muthulakshmi Reddi

22. Pandita Ramabai

23. Sister Nivedita

[Pt. 4]

Literature. 24. Amrita Pritam

25. Anita Desai

26. Arundhati Roy

27. Mahadevi Verma

28. Mahasweta Devi

[Pt. 5]

Art. 29. Amrita Sher-Gil

30. Anjolie Ela Menon

[Pt. 6]

Music. 31. Begum Akhtar

32. D.K. Pattammal

33. Gangubai Hangal

34. Girija Devi

35. Kishori Amonkar

36. Prabha Atre

[Pt. 7]

Dance. 37. Balasaraswati

38. Mallika Sarabhai

39. Padma Subrahmanyam

40. Rukmini Devi Arundale

41. Sanjukta Panigrahi

42. Sitara Devi

43. Sonal Mansingh

44. Yamini Krishnamurthy

[Pt. 8]

Cinema. 45. Mira Nair

46. Shabana Azmi

[Pt. 9]

Sports and adventure. 47. Bachendri Pal

48. Kalpana Chawla

49. Karnam Malleswari

50. P.T. Usha