WRITER

Chittaranjan Das

1869 - 1925

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Chittaranjan Das (5 November 1870 – 16 June 1925), popularly called Deshbandhu (friend of the country), was a Bengali freedom fighter, political activist and lawyer during the Indian Independence Movement and the political guru of Indian freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. He was the founder-leader of the Swaraj Party in undivided Bengal during the period of British Colonial rule in India. His name is abbreviated as C. R. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chittaranjan Das has received more than 1,012,600 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Chittaranjan Das is the 2,223rd most popular writer (up from 2,455th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Bangladesh (up from 299th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Bangladeshi Writer.

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  • 61.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Chittaranjan Das ranks 2,223 out of 7,302. Before him are Arsen Kotsoyev, Shakuntala Devi, Maciej Stryjkowski, Joseph Heller, Wayne Dyer, and Teimuraz II of Kakheti. After him are Renaud Camus, Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, Zuhayr bin Abi Sulma, Israel Joshua Singer, David Ogilvy, and Zosimos of Panopolis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Chittaranjan Das ranks 70. Before him are Algernon Blackwood, Louise d'Orléans, Caterina Albert, Philip de László, Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau, and Otto Nordenskjöld. After him are Prince Baudouin of Belgium, Tony Garnier, Michael von Faulhaber, Konstantin Somov, Léon Brunschvicg, and Paul Émile Chabas. Among people deceased in 1925, Chittaranjan Das ranks 62. Before him are Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Thomas R. Marshall, Francis Darwin, Sidney Reilly, Sheikh Said, and Princess Françoise of Orléans. After him are Louis Feuillade, Hidesaburō Ueno, John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, Anna Schäffer, Stefan Żeromski, and Aristide Bruant.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, Chittaranjan Das ranks 14 out of 74. Before him are Chandragupta I (250), William Beveridge (1879), Mohammed Shahabuddin (1949), Begum Rokeya (1880), Zillur Rahman (1929), and Ziaur Rahman (1936). After him are Meghnad Saha (1893), Khawaja Nazimuddin (1894), Iajuddin Ahmed (1931), Anandamayi Ma (1896), Bipin Chandra Pal (1858), and Matsyendranatha (901).

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Among WRITERS In Bangladesh

Among writers born in Bangladesh, Chittaranjan Das ranks 3. Before him are Sri Chinmoy (1931), and Begum Rokeya (1880). After him are Mahasweta Devi (1926), Taslima Nasrin (1962), Humayun Ahmed (1948), Kamini Roy (1864), Shankha Ghosh (1932), Sufia Kamal (1911), Ahmed Sofa (1943), Avijit Roy (1972), and Mamunul Haque (1973).

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