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Birsa Munda

1875 - 1900

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Birsa Munda (15 November 1875 – 9 June 1900) was an Indian tribal independence activist, and folk hero who belonged to the Munda tribe. He spearheaded a tribal religious millenarian movement that arose in the Bengal Presidency (now Jharkhand) in the late 19th century, during the British Raj, thereby making him an important figure in the history of the Indian independence movement. The revolt mainly concentrated in the Munda belt of Khunti, Tamar, Sarwada and Bandgaon.Birsa received his education in Salga under the guidance of his teacher Jaipal Nag. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Birsa Munda has received more than 2,793,973 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Birsa Munda is the 4,738th most popular politician (up from 5,273rd in 2019), the 166th most popular biography from India (down from 163rd in 2019) and the 52nd most popular Indian Politician.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.26

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  • 2.47

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Over the past year Birsa Munda has had the most page views in the with 475,905 views, followed by Hindi (335,916), and Marathi (40,291). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Eastern Punjabi (32,733.33%), Assamese (1,588.03%), and Urdu (73.68%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Birsa Munda ranks 4,738 out of 19,576. Before him are Perdiccas I of Macedon, Emperor Wuzong of Tang, Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, Fruela I of Asturias, Gajah Mada, and Maeda Toshiie. After him are Peter von Biron, Giuseppe Conte, Iltutmish, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Robert Maxwell, and Erwin Piscator.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Birsa Munda ranks 42. Before him are Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia, Cléo de Mérode, Thomas Burke, Rudolf von Sebottendorf, Mistinguett, and Franco Alfano. After him are Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, Nobuyuki Abe, Ludwig Prandtl, Abd al-Hafid of Morocco, Qiu Jin, and Hiram Bingham III. Among people deceased in 1900, Birsa Munda ranks 25. Before him are Frederic Edwin Church, Mary Kingsley, Isaac Levitan, Francis, Duke of Teck, François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville, and José Maria de Eça de Queirós. After him are Kuroda Kiyotaka, Armand David, Samori Ture, Princess Josephine of Baden, Joseph Bertrand, and Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.

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In India

Among people born in India, Birsa Munda ranks 166 out of 1,861. Before him are Mahesh Bhatt (1948), Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936), Zakir Husain (1897), Jyotirao Phule (1827), Madhvacharya (1199), and Vikramaditya (-102). After him are Mamnoon Hussain (1940), Sivananda Saraswati (1887), Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (1856), Kittur Chennamma (1778), Lala Lajpat Rai (1865), and Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Birsa Munda ranks 52. Before him are Bahadur Shah I (1643), Pranab Mukherjee (1935), V. V. Giri (1894), Pratibha Patil (1934), Zakir Husain (1897), and Vikramaditya (-102). After him are Mamnoon Hussain (1940), Lala Lajpat Rai (1865), Abdul Karim (1863), James Brooke (1803), Khaleda Zia (1945), and Ahilyabai Holkar (1725).

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