In this encyclopaedia the life and work of great Indian personalities (freedom fighters, social reformers and educationaist) have been presented in a very lucid form. This encyclopaeida consists of four volumes. In each volume the life and works of two prominent personalities have been arranged as under: Vol.1 Part-I: Lala Lajpat Rai Part-II: Gopal Krishan Gokhale Vol. 2 Part-I: B.R. Ambedkar Part-II: Zakir Husain Vol.3 Part-I; Mahatma Gandhi Part-II: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Vol. 4 Part-I: Sri Aurobindo Part-II: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel The Purpose of bringing out this four volumes set of Encyclopaedia of Great Personalites of India is to present to the reader in a comprehensive form the life sketches and works of these eight prominent leaders at one place. It is hoped that this encyclopaedia will be found very useful and informative to the readers of various walks of life; and is worth cataloguing in the libraries also.