Field Name

Person Name

1

Father of the Nation

Mahatma Gandhi

2

Father of Ayurveda

Charaka

3

Father of Astronomy

Varahmihira

4

Father of Sanskrit Drama

Kalidasa

5

Father of Indian Renaissance

Raja Ram Mohan Roy

6

Father of Surgery

Sushruta

7

Father of Indian Unrest

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

8

Father of Indian Budget

Prof. P.C. Mohalanobis

9

Father of Indian Painting

Nandalal Base

10

Father of Indian Cinema

Dada Saheb Phalke

11

Father of Indian Engineering

M. Visveswaraya

12

Father of Indian Railway and Telegraph

Lord Dalhousie

13

Father of Co-operative Movement in India

Frederic Nicholson

14

Father of Indian Printing

James Hickey

15

Father of Local Self Govt. in India

Lord Ripon

16

Father of Modern Astrology in India

Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu

17

Father of Reform for Farmer’s in India

Deenbandhu Chhota Ram

18

Father of Indian Space Programme

Vikram Sarabhai

19

Father of Indian Nuclear Programme

Homi Jehangir Bhabha

20

Father of India’s Missile Programme

Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

21

Father  of Indian Civil Service

Lord Cornwallis

22

Father of Indian Constitution

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

23

Father of Indian Architecture

B.V. Doshi

24

Mother of Indian Revolution

Bhikaiji Rustom Cama

25

Father of Indian Economic Reforms

P.V. Narasimha Rao

26

Father of Indian Economic Nationalism

Dadabhai Naoroji

27

Father of Indian Politics and Economics

Dadabhai Naoroji

28

Father of Civil Aviation in India

J.R.D. Tata

29

Father of Indian Industry

J.R.D Tata

30

Father of Non Violence

Mahatma Gandhi

31

Father of Library Science in India

S.R. Ranganathan

32

Father of Indian IT

Rajiv Gandhi

33

Father of Indian Archaeology

Sir Alexander Cunningham

34

Father of Communication Revolution in India

Sam Pitroda

35

Father of Communal Electorate

Lord Minto

36

Father of Indian Air force

Subroto Mukherjee

37

Father of Indian Botany

William Roxburgh

38

Father of Green Revolution in India

M.S. Swaminathan

39

Father of Blue Revolution

Dr. Arun Krishnan & Dr Hiralal Chaudhuri

40

Father of Pink Revolution

Durgesh Patel

41

Father of Golden Revolution

Nirpakh Tutaj

42

Father of Red Revolution

Vishal Tewari

43

Father of Silver Revolution

Indira Gandhi

44

Father of White Revolution / Father of Operation Flood in India

Varughese Kurian

45

Father of Yellow Revolution

Sam Pitroda

46

Father of Indian Cardiology

Rustom Jal Vakil

48

Father of Indian Constitution

B.R. Ambedkar

49

Father of Indian Mathematics

Arya Bhatta

50

Father of Indian Metrology

Dev Raj Sikka

51

Father of Indian Body Building

Manohar Aich

52

Father of Remote Sensing

Pisharoth Rama Pisharoti

53

Father of India’s Nuclear Fusion Programme

Predhiman Krishan Kaw

54

Father of Marathi Journalism

Balshastri Jambhekar

55

Father of Indian Lok Sabha

Shri Ganesh Vasudev Mavlankar (This title was conferred by Pt Jawaharlal Nehru)

56

Father of Lok Adalat in India

Justice P.N. Bhagwati

57

Father of Indology

al-Biruni (He was the first Muslim scholar to study India)

58

The father of Economic Ecology

M.S. Swaminathan

60

Father of Maratha Nation

Shivaji

61

Father of the Tamil Language

Agastya Rishi

62

Father of Modern Economic Reforms

Manmohan Singh

63

Father of Surgery

Sushruta