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Ananda Coomaraswamy

1877 - 1947

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Ananda Kentish Muthu Coomaraswamy (Tamil: ஆனந்த குமாரசுவாமி, Āṉanta Kentiś Muthū Kumāracuvāmi; Sinhala: ආනන්ද කුමාරස්වාමි Ānanda Kumārasvāmī; 22 August 1877 − 9 September 1947) was a Ceylonese metaphysician, historian and a philosopher of Indian art who was an early interpreter of Indian culture to the West. He has been described as "the groundbreaking theorist who was largely responsible for introducing ancient Indian art to the West". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ananda Coomaraswamy is the 565th most popular philosopher (down from 518th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (down from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Sri Lankan Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ananda Coomaraswamy ranks 565 out of 1,267. Before him are Barrington Moore Jr., Bernardino Telesio, Zaki al-Arsuzi, Harriet Taylor Mill, Al-Shahrastani, and Bion of Borysthenes. After him are Bardaisan, Hans Vaihinger, Hu Shih, Philipp Mainländer, Nancy Fraser, and Agrippa the Skeptic.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Ananda Coomaraswamy ranks 47. Before him are Shefqet Vërlaci, Vasil Kolarov, George Hackenschmidt, Ulrich Salchow, Endre Ady, and Chaim Rumkowski. After him are Edmund Landau, Otto Gross, Sadao Araki, Wilhelm Adam, Charles Rolls, and Princess Mathilde of Bavaria. Among people deceased in 1947, Ananda Coomaraswamy ranks 65. Before him are Alfredo Casella, Franz Ritter von Epp, Dorothea Binz, Hermine Reuss of Greiz, P. D. Ouspensky, and Victor Serge. After him are Slavko Kvaternik, Franz Xaver Schwarz, Władysław Raczkiewicz, Ludwig Fischer, Friedrich Paschen, and Huda Sha'arawi.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Ananda Coomaraswamy ranks 7 out of 51. Before him are Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), Gotabaya Rajapaksa (1949), Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916), Velupillai Prabhakaran (1954), J. R. Jayewardene (1906), and Chandrika Kumaratunga (1945). After him are Tony Hoare (1934), Anagarika Dharmapala (1864), Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945), Aryadeva (200), Malcolm Ranjith (1947), and St John Philby (1885).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Sri Lanka

Among philosophers born in Sri Lanka, Ananda Coomaraswamy ranks 1. 

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