Looks like I am getting into a frequency mismatch here. May be we have different yardsticks to evaluate personalities. Just few points about some of the personalities;
1. Surdas: Majority believe he was born in Runakata. He wrote in Brijbhasa which is spoken around Agra and Mathura and certainly not around Faridabad.
2. Birbal: He was born in present day MP and certainly not in Haryana. Might be he owned some gifted property in Haryana which does not qualify him a Haryanvi. I too own
property in Haryana and Karnataka. I don't think that makes me a Haryanvi or Kannad.
3. With full regards, many of the personalities mentioned at best can be called regional and not national or international.
4. I have full admiration for Seth Chajju ram and the social work he did. I wonder if he did anything for the poor jute farmers from who profited the most ? I am ignorant on that
aspect of his life. May be someone educate me. Just for comparative purpose please have a look at the life of one Swami Kalayan dev
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Kalyandev) and the social work he did among the villagers of western UP. This man was no Seth. However, he built over 300 educational
institutions. As per my yardstick, Seth Chajjuram falls pale in front of Kalyan dev when it comes to social services.
Anyway, I have different views on all this and this is very subjective matter.
RK^2