SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Charu Majumdar

1918 - 1972

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Charu Mazumdar (Bengali: চারু মজুমদার; 15 May 1918 – 28 July 1972), popularly known as CM, was an Indian Communist leader, and founder and General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist). Born into a progressive landlord family in Siliguri in 1918, he became a Communist during the Indian Independence Movement, and later formed the militant Naxalite cause. During this period, he authored the historic accounts of the 1967 Naxalbari uprising. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charu Majumdar has received more than 610,351 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Charu Majumdar is the 469th most popular social activist (down from 434th in 2019), the 582nd most popular biography from India (down from 527th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Indian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Charu Majumdar ranks 469 out of 840. Before him are Megumi Yokota, Dewi Sartika, Leo Deutsch, Osvaldo Hurtado, Lev Chernyi, and Jack Sheppard. After him are Eugen Drewermann, Giuseppe Impastato, Ted Grant, Parashqevi Qiriazi, Ela Bhatt, and Joseph Wresinski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Charu Majumdar ranks 203. Before him are John Bromwich, Peter Blau, San Yu, Edward Van Dijck, Russell Kirk, and Said Mohamed Djohar. After him are Georges Berger, Rand Brooks, Zara Dolukhanova, Gunder Hägg, Martin Lundström, and Anne Shirley. Among people deceased in 1972, Charu Majumdar ranks 171. Before him are Kenny Dorham, Alfred Schmidt, Rudolf Friml, Alexander Bek, Reginald Owen, and John Hutchinson. After him are Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer, Carlo Agostoni, Saul Alinsky, Xie Fuzhi, Harold Rainsford Stark, and Isak Abrahamsen.

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In India

Among people born in India, Charu Majumdar ranks 582 out of 1,861. Before him are The Great Gama (1878), Verghese Kurien (1921), Muhammad Azam Shah (1653), Sivaji Ganesan (1928), Launceston Elliot (1874), and Fauja Singh (1911). After him are Kajal Aggarwal (1985), Cerverí de Girona (1259), Baji Rao II (1775), Sanjay Dutt (1959), Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy (1924), and BP Koirala (1914).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Charu Majumdar ranks 38. Before him are Saalumarada Thimmakka (1911), Rajendra K. Pachauri (1940), Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903), Sugathakumari (1934), Mohammad Ali Jauhar (1878), and Shivakumara Swami (1907). After him are Ela Bhatt (1933), Har Dayal (1884), Medha Patkar (1954), Neerja Bhanot (1963), Manilal Gandhi (1892), and Veerappan (1952).

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