Dharampalji was a Gandhian thinker whose scholarship and writing about Indian history, pieced together through a deep study of original British documents, has had a deep influence on SIDH. SIDH has published his collected works in 5 volumes.

Professor Samdhong Rinpoche is a close aide of the Dalai Lama. He has served as the democratically elected Prime Minister of Tibet in exile and as the Director of the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies at Sarnath.

Shri Agrahar Nagraj Sarman was a saint, ayurvedic practitioner and farmer who lived in Amarkantak. His madhyasth darshan and the books he wrote laying out its contours have been very influential. There are currently numerous experiments in alternative living based on this darshana.

Guruji Ravindra Sharma, the founder of Kalaashram in Adilabad, was an artisan and storyteller who mesmerized people with his reminiscences of his childhood in Adilabad, a part of the India that was relatively untouched by the British destruction machine.

Satya Narayana Goenka was an Indian teacher of vipassanā meditation. Born in Burma to an Indian business family, he moved to India in 1969 and started teaching meditation. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2012.