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