Prem baniya biography of mahatma

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This is a partial list of notable/famous people from Baniya Community.

Freedom fighters

Arts

• Purushottam Agrawal, writer and an ex-member of the Union Public Service Commission board
• Vinita Agrawal, poet, editor and curator
• Vasudeva Sharan Agrawala, scholar of cultural history, Sanskrit and Hindi literature, numismatics, museology, art history, and recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award
• Bhagwan Das, Bharat Ratna (India's highest civilian award) awardee^[3]
• Sita Ram Goel, historian, religious and political activist, writer, and publisher in the late twentieth century
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  N. Goenka, Padma Bhushan awardee, Vipassana meditation teacher

• Bharatendu Harishchandra, Known as the "father of modern Hindi literature and Hindi theatre"^[4]

Civil servants

India

• Lav Agarwal, face of