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Charan Singh

1902 - 1987

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Chaudhary Charan Singh (23 December 1902 – 29 May 1987), better known as Charan Singh was an Indian politician and a freedom fighter. Singh was principally known for his land and agricultural reform initiatives. He briefly served as the prime minister of India from July 1979 to August 1979 and was Member of Parliament (MP) for Baghpat. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charan Singh has received more than 3,153,648 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Charan Singh is the 6,301st most popular politician (up from 7,177th in 2019), the 208th most popular biography from India (up from 229th in 2019) and the 65th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Charan Singh ranks 6,301 out of 19,576. Before him are Mithridates II of Pontus, Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid, Isabella of Savoy, Alexander Ankvab, Emperor Yizong of Tang, and Saman Khuda. After him are Tarabai, Henri de Baillet-Latour, Bertrand de Blanchefort, Bocchus II, Shahrokh Shah, and Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Charan Singh ranks 79. Before him are Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg, Eugen Jochum, Richard Rodgers, Wifredo Lam, Langston Hughes, and Lyubov Orlova. After him are Alfredo Binda, Anatole Litvak, Norma Shearer, Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu, Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, and Maurice Duruflé. Among people deceased in 1987, Charan Singh ranks 57. Before him are Camille Chamoun, Eugen Jochum, Alistair MacLean, Seyni Kountché, Yakov Zeldovich, and Gordon Gollob. After him are Federico Mompou, Gretl Braun, Liberace, Abba Kovner, Joop den Uyl, and Carlos José Castilho.

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In India

Among people born in India, Charan Singh ranks 208 out of 1,861. Before him are Thiruvalluvar (350), Feroze Gandhi (1912), Ram Narayan (1927), Guru Angad (1504), Parshvanatha (-872), and Morarji Desai (1896). After him are Tarabai (1675), Rajesh Khanna (1942), Śāntarakṣita (725), Khudiram Bose (1889), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942), and Ibrahim Lodi (1450).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Charan Singh ranks 65. Before him are M. Visvesvaraya (1861), Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621), Pushyamitra Shunga (-300), Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924), Feroze Gandhi (1912), and Morarji Desai (1896). After him are Tarabai (1675), Ibrahim Lodi (1450), Rajendra Chola I (1000), Rani Durgavati (1524), Nizamuddin Auliya (1238), and Rajaraja I (947).

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