https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_Indian
The Greatest Indian is a poll, sponsored by Reliance Mobile, and conducted by Outlook magazine, in partnership with CNN-IBN and The History Channel.
The poll was conducted from June to August 2012, with the winner, B. R. Ambedkar, being announced on 11 August.
A list of one hundred names was presented to, and compiled, by a twenty-eight-member jury, composed of actors, writers, sportspersons, entrepreneurs, and men and women of distinction in their fields
7,129,050 people participated in this phase of the online poll
Individuals were able to cast votes either by visiting www.thegreatestindian.in or by calling a unique number given to each of the nominees.
Nearly 20,000,000 people voted in this round of the survey.
The top 10 nominees have all received the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award of the Republic of India
Of 50 nominees, 15 have received the Bharat Ratna and 6 are women.
The oldest living nominees at the time of the poll/2012 were
B. K. S. Iyengar (93)
Ravi Shankar (92),
Verghese Kurien (90),
R. K. Laxman (90),
Dilip Kumar (89),
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (87) and
M. S. Swaminathan (87), while
Sachin Tendulkar (39) was the youngest.