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Kumaon · Western Himalaya & Trans-Himalaya

लोग

नाम	वर्ष	क्षेत्र	किसलिए मशहूर
Nain Singh Rawat	1830–1882	Explorer and surveyor	From Milam in the Johar valley. Trained by the Survey of India to survey clandestinely in Tibet, he walked routes in the disguise of a trader, counting a fixed pace on a rosary of one hundred beads and hiding notes in a prayer wheel, and fixed the position of Lhasa and the course of the Tsangpo. He was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's gold medal in 1877. His cousin Kishen Singh worked the same way over even longer routes.
Badri Datt Pandey	1882–1965	Journalist and political leader	Led the campaign against coolie-begar, the forced portering demanded of hill villagers, which culminated at the Bageshwar Uttarayani fair in January 1921. He also wrote Kumaun ka Itihas, still the standard local history, and was known as Kumaon Kesari.
Govind Ballabh Pant	1887–1961	Politics	From an Almora district family. Premier and then Chief Minister of the United Provinces and Uttar Pradesh and later Union Home Minister, he was among the principal advocates of state reorganisation on linguistic lines. Awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1957.
Sumitranandan Pant	1900–1977	Poet	Born at Kausani. A central figure of the Chhayavaad movement in Hindi poetry, whose landscape imagery is drawn directly from this ridge. Received the Jnanpith Award in 1968.
Jim Corbett	1875–1955	Hunter, naturalist and writer	Born in Nainital and raised at Kaladhungi in the bhabar. He shot a series of man-eating tigers and leopards across Kumaon and Garhwal, then argued for protection and photography instead, and India's first national park was later named after him. His books are also an unusually close record of hill village life.
Uday Shankar	1900–1977	Dance	Established his India Culture Centre at Almora between 1938 and 1942, bringing classical, folk and modern teachers together on one campus. Zohra Sehgal, Guru Dutt and Shanti Bardhan were among those who passed through it, and its influence on Indian stage dance far outlasted its four years.
Mohan Upreti	1928–1997	Composer and theatre director	Arranged Kumaoni folk material for the stage and, with Brijendra Lal Sah, built the Parvatiya Kala Kendra. His setting of Bedu Pako Baro Masa turned a courtship song into the region's anthem, and his production of Rajula Malushahi put the Kumaoni epic in front of national audiences.
Girish Tiwari 'Girda'	1945–2010	Poet, singer and activist	The voice of the Uttarakhand statehood movement and of every forest, dam and liquor agitation before it. He wrote in Kumaoni and Hindi, sang his poems rather than reciting them, and functioned as the movement's public conscience for four decades.
Shekhar Pathak	b. 1950	Historian	Historian of Uttarakhand and of the Chipko movement, founder of the journal and collective PAHAR, and initiator of the Askot–Arakot Abhiyan, a long transect walk across the hills repeated at ten-year intervals since 1974 to record what has changed.
Shivani (Gaura Pant)	1923–2003	Novelist	Wrote a large body of Hindi fiction rooted in Kumaoni domestic life, with women's interior lives and hill households at its centre. Her work carried Kumaoni idiom into mainstream Hindi readership.
Mahadevi Verma	1907–1987	Poet and essayist	Not from the region, but she built a house at Ramgarh in the Kumaon hills and wrote there for decades. Her essays on hill women and village life are among the sharper outside accounts of the society she settled in.
The Johar valley's expedition porters and guides	—	Mountaineering	The Johar and Darma valleys supplied the load-carriers, guides and high-altitude workers for a century of Himalayan expeditions, from the early Nanda Devi attempts onward. Individual names appear in expedition accounts more often than on title pages, which is itself part of the record.

Kumaon के वे लोग जिन्होंने यहाँ के इतिहास, कला, विज्ञान, खेल और सार्वजनिक जीवन को गढ़ा। (12)