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Bharatendu Harishchandra

1850 - 1885

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Bharatendu Harishchandra (9 September 1850 – 6 January 1885) was an Indian poet, writer and playwright. He authored several dramas, life sketches and travel accounts, using new media such as reports, publications, letters to editors of publications, translations, and literary works to shape public opinion. Bharatendu Harishchandra is often considered as the father of modern Hindi literature and theatre. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bharatendu Harishchandra has received more than 597,874 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Bharatendu Harishchandra is the 3,361st most popular writer, the 427th most popular biography from India and the 66th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bharatendu Harishchandra ranks 3,361 out of 7,302. Before him are Rhianus, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, Al-A'sha, Rose Wilder Lane, Jean-Claude Izzo, and Gunnar Heiberg. After him are Hồ Xuân Hương, Vera Brittain, Cristina Peri Rossi, Anar Rzayev, Fanny Crosby, and Rutebeuf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Bharatendu Harishchandra ranks 67. Before him are Edward Bellamy, Alphonse Pénaud, Wilhelm Roux, Ernest von Koerber, Andrea Carlo Ferrari, and Tarabai Shinde. After him are Anastasia Golovina, Amélie Lundahl, Adolf Martens, Anton Seidl, Augusto Righi, and Spencer Gore. Among people deceased in 1885, Bharatendu Harishchandra ranks 51. Before him are Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville, Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval, Amédée Courbet, Jules Vallès, Friedrich Kiel, and Rosa Vercellana. After him are Prince Adolf of Auersperg, Schuyler Colfax, Georg Curtius, Henri Dupuy de Lôme, André Gill, and Prince August of Württemberg.

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In India

Among people born in India, Bharatendu Harishchandra ranks 427 out of 1,861. Before him are Ibn Warraq (1946), Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1908), Satya Nadella (1967), Hemu (1501), Guru Har Rai (1630), and Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (1898). After him are M. F. Husain (1915), Udham Singh (1899), Jacques Lauriston (1768), Ram Manohar Lohia (1910), Sukhdev Thapar (1907), and Mahbub ul Haq (1934).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Bharatendu Harishchandra ranks 66. Before him are R. K. Narayan (1906), Idries Shah (1924), Ashapurna Devi (1909), Ibn Warraq (1946), Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1908), and Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (1898). After him are Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904), Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894), Altaf Hussain Hali (1837), Hansa Jivraj Mehta (1897), Firaq Gorakhpuri (1896), and Nagarjun (1911).

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