Alphabrtically arranged titbits, hints and ever full fledged biograpahical notes of the personalities given here have basically been culled from different periodicals, magazines, proceedings and journals over the years. They hail from different hues of life and disciplines of learning and education prevalent in our society. Details about certain cities. towns and evev villages and at times evev countries and dynasties and techinal and other terms of interest may also be found littered here and there along with these personalities. There is no binding of the time period generally but most of them generally hail from the modern period. Generally two sets of materials were collected for this purpose. One set contained names, date of death, works and activities, either in brief which can easily be elaborated upon with the help of hints noted down and in cases the sources utilized contained merely their dates of death or birth and even both and so certain notices may be found confined merely to such details or giving brief references to the material related to them with details of the sources utilized in which these can be found. Then another set of material was collected having fuller versions of them either in the form of notes or the original source itself. Both these sets have been used in sketching the details conrained in this volume.

Out of the Bibliography of new arrivals in languages other than English having survived in notes has been appended to be of help to the future researchers.