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Aruna Asaf Ali

1909 - 1996

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Aruna Asaf Ali (née Ganguly; 16 July 1909 – 29 July 1996) was an Indian educator, political activist, and publisher. An active participant in the Indian independence movement, she is widely remembered for hoisting the Indian National flag at the Gowalia Tank maidan, Bombay during the Quit India Movement in 1942. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aruna Asaf Ali has received more than 1,285,853 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Aruna Asaf Ali is the 311th most popular social activist (up from 338th in 2019), the 356th most popular biography from India (up from 382nd in 2019) and the 20th most popular Indian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Aruna Asaf Ali ranks 311 out of 840. Before her are Yuri Levitan, Muhammad Zaidan, Zhang Guotao, Cut Nyak Dhien, Amelia Bloomer, and Franca Viola. After her are Mirzo Tursunzoda, Toktogul Satylganov, Natalya Estemirova, Charles Boycott, Abbie Hoffman, and Jason Moore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Aruna Asaf Ali ranks 149. Before her are Olga Rubtsova, Karl Schäfer, Jim Davis, Morris Swadesh, Luigi Villoresi, and Georg Konrad Morgen. After her are Anthony Mamo, Bert Patenaude, Guillermo Gorostiza, Laxmi Prasad Devkota, Zoran Mušič, and Sutan Sjahrir. Among people deceased in 1996, Aruna Asaf Ali ranks 122. Before her are Haing S. Ngor, Edison Denisov, Hyman Minsky, Chas Chandler, Jerry Siegel, and Ljuba Welitsch. After her are Dan Flavin, Pierre Grimal, Tito Okello, Arleigh Burke, Hervé Bazin, and José Donoso.

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In India

Among people born in India, Aruna Asaf Ali ranks 356 out of 1,861. Before her are Mohammad Hidayatullah (1905), Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (1864), Zeb-un-Nissa (1638), Ahmad Shah Bahadur (1725), U. R. Ananthamurthy (1932), and Rishi Kapoor (1952). After her are Salima Sultan Begum (1539), Nirmala Srivastava (1923), Ram Prasad Bismil (1897), Rash Behari Bose (1886), Asima Chatterjee (1917), and Lahiri Mahasaya (1828).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Aruna Asaf Ali ranks 20. Before her are Anna Hazare (1937), C. Rajagopalachari (1878), Jayaprakash Narayan (1902), Vandana Shiva (1952), Harilal Gandhi (1888), and Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842). After her are Baba Amte (1914), M. N. Roy (1887), Bhikaiji Cama (1861), Dhondo Keshav Karve (1858), Udham Singh (1899), and Ram Manohar Lohia (1910).

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