Father of different fields in India

This article is for the GK information about the Indian people who are officially or unofficially known as the Father of a particular field or category. These are the famous personalities who made such a great contribution to that particular field, they become famous as the father or mother of that respective field. Here is the list of such great personalities:

Father of different fields in India
Father of Name
Father of Indian Navy Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
Father of Indian constitution Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
Father of Indian cinema Dadasaheb Phalke
Father of Indian missile APJ Abdul Kalam
Father of Indian space program Dr.Vikram Sarabhai
Father of Indian nuclear programme Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Father of Indian renaissance Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Father of Indian unrest Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Father of Indian history Megasthenes
Father of Indian Geography James Rennell
Father of Modern India Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Father of Indian Economic Planning Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya 
Father of Indian Army Stringer Lawrence
Father of Indian aviation J. R. D. Tata
Father of Indian archaeology Alexander Cunningham
Father of the Indian Air Force Subroto Mukerjee
Father of Indian agriculture MS Swaminathan
Father of Indian animation Ram Mohan
Father of Modern Indian Art Raja Ravi Varma
Father of modern Indian astronomy M.K. Vainu Bappu
Father of Indian botany William Roxburgh
Father of Indian Medicine Charaka
Father of Indian surgery Susruta
Father of Indian Palaeobotany Birbal Sahni
Father of Indian Ecology Ramdeo Misra
Father of Indian Cricket Maharaja Ranjit Sinhji
Father of civil service in India Charles Cornwallis
Father of the Indian Supercomputer Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar
Father of Indian Chemistry Prafulla Chandra Ray
Father of Indian communism Manavendra Nath Roy
Father of Indian Meteorology Dev Raj Sikka
Father of Indian cytology Arun Kumar Sharma
Father of Indian Dentistry Dr. Rafiuddin Ahmed
Father of Indian DNA fingerprinting Lalji Singh
Father of Indian engineering Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya
Father of Indian economic reforms PV Narasimha Rao 
Father of Indian Forensic Medicine Dr. J.P Modi
Father of Indian hockey Major Dhyan Chand Singh
Father of Indian Horticulture Dr. M. H. Marigowda
Father of the Indian irrigation system Kanuri Lakshmana Rao
Father of Indian Software Industry Faqir Chand Kohli
Father of Indian Industry Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata
Father of Indian journalism James Augustus Hickey
Father of modern legal education in India N. R. Madhava Menon
Father of library science in India Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan
Father of Indian mathematics Aryabhata
Father of Indian Pharmacy Mahadeva Lal Schroff
Father of Indian Pediatrics Dr. George Coelho
Father of Linguistic Democracy Potti Sreeramulu
Father of Indian Comic Books Anant Pai
Father of White Revolution Verghese Kurien
Father of Veterinary Science Shalihotra
Father of Pink Revolution in India Durgesh Patel
Father of Silver Revolution Indira Gandhi
Father of Gold Revolution Nirpakh Tutaj
Father of Indian quizzing Neil O'Brien
Father of Indian Railways Lord Dalhousie
Father of Indian sociology Govind Sadashiv Ghurye
Father of Indian statistics Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Father of Indian taxonomy Henry Santapau
Father of the Trade Union Movement  Narayan Meghaji Lokhande

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