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Bharati Mukherjee

1940 - 2017

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Bharati Mukherjee (July 27, 1940 – January 28, 2017) was an Indian American-Canadian writer and professor emerita in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bharati Mukherjee has received more than 302,008 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Bharati Mukherjee is the 6,827th most popular writer (down from 6,376th in 2019), the 1,094th most popular biography from India (up from 1,116th in 2019) and the 129th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 37.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bharati Mukherjee ranks 6,827 out of 7,302. Before her are Anna Todd, Lena Andersson, Wei Hui, Federico Andahazi, Michael Goldenberg, and Peter Hedges. After her are Kofi Awoonor, David Ignatius, Robert Bridges, Anne Enright, Jan van Steenbergen, and Hamid Mir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Bharati Mukherjee ranks 601. Before her are Stanley Hauerwas, Don LaFontaine, Madam Auring, Padma Sachdev, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Faimalaga Luka. After her are Craig Brown, Robert Pinsky, Adam Faith, Melba Moore, Barney Frank, and Savitri Jindal. Among people deceased in 2017, Bharati Mukherjee ranks 632. Before her are William Steinkraus, Rosemary Leach, Sergei Mylnikov, Albert Brewer, Milt Schmidt, and Harvey Atkin. After her are Dick Gregory, Barbara Cook, Javier Valdez Cárdenas, Cristina Adela Foișor, Frank Spellman, and Donna Williams.

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In India

Among people born in India, Bharati Mukherjee ranks 1,094 out of 1,861. Before her are Basanti Bisht (1953), Roop Singh (1908), Pallonji Mistry (1929), Jyotiraditya Scindia (1971), Sohrab Modi (1897), and Ajith Kumar (1971). After her are Deepak Tijori (1961), Leela Chitnis (1909), Begum Samru (1746), Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (1920), Lara Dutta (1978), and Rahul Dravid (1973).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Bharati Mukherjee ranks 129. Before her are Rahat Indori (1950), Rohinton Mistry (1952), Saroo Brierley (1981), Geetanjali Shree (1957), Ali Sardar Jafri (1913), and Nayantara Sahgal (1927). After her are Toru Dutt (1856), Krishna Hutheesing (1907), Raja Rao (1908), Kiran Desai (1971), Shobhaa De (1948), and Kamala Markandaya (1924).

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