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Begum Rokeya

1880 - 1932

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Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (Bengali: রোকেয়া সাখাওয়াত হোসেন; 9 December 1880 – 9 December 1932), commonly known as Begum Rokeya, was a prominent Bengali feminist thinker, writer, educator and political activist from British India. She is widely regarded as a pioneer of women's liberation in India and Bangladesh. She advocated for men and women to be treated equally as rational beings, noting that the lack of education for women was responsible for their inferior economic position. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Begum Rokeya has received more than 828,411 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Begum Rokeya is the 2,517th most popular writer (up from 2,967th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Bangladesh (up from 14th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Bangladeshi Writer.

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  • 830k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Begum Rokeya ranks 2,517 out of 5,755. Before her are Sergey Aksakov, Predrag Matvejević, Giovanni Francesco Straparola, Edith Pargeter, Stephenie Meyer, and Gitta Sereny. After her are William Congreve, Yury Yakovlev, Arthur Young, Commodian, Johannes Mario Simmel, and Ilse Aichinger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Begum Rokeya ranks 90. Before her are Archie Hahn, Mihail Sadoveanu, Joseph Trumpeldor, Eric Lemming, Gabriel Voisin, and Ildebrando Pizzetti. After her are Princess Thyra of Denmark, Tudor Arghezi, Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Leonard Woolf, Alfred J. Lotka, and B. C. Forbes. Among people deceased in 1932, Begum Rokeya ranks 57. Before her are Hovannes Adamian, José Félix Uriburu, Jalil Mammadguluzadeh, Farabundo Martí, Patrick Geddes, and Pēteris Stučka. After her are Ignaz Seipel, Christian von Ehrenfels, Karl Blossfeldt, Frederick Jackson Turner, Rudolf Bauer, and Francisco S. Carvajal.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, Begum Rokeya ranks 13 out of 57. Before her are William Beveridge (1879), Chandragupta I (250), Sri Chinmoy (1931), Zillur Rahman (1929), Ziaur Rahman (1936), and Meghnad Saha (1893). After her are Anandamayi Ma (1896), Mahasweta Devi (1926), Mir Jafar (1691), Iajuddin Ahmed (1931), Khawaja Nazimuddin (1894), and Surya Sen (1894).

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Among WRITERS In Bangladesh

Among writers born in Bangladesh, Begum Rokeya ranks 2. Before her are Sri Chinmoy (1931). After her are Mahasweta Devi (1926), Taslima Nasrin (1962), Avijit Roy (1972), Mamunul Haque (1973), and Monica Ali (1967).

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