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Cornelia Sorabji

1866 - 1954

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Cornelia Sorabji (15 November 1866 – 6 July 1954) was an Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer. She was the first female graduate from Bombay University, and the first woman to study law at Oxford University. Returning to India after her studies at Oxford, Sorabji became involved in social and advisory work on behalf of the purdahnashins, women who were forbidden to communicate with the outside male world, but she was unable to defend them in court since, as a woman, she did not hold professional standing in the Indian legal system. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cornelia Sorabji has received more than 845,137 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Cornelia Sorabji is the 5,143rd most popular writer (down from 5,024th in 2019), the 652nd most popular biography from India (down from 587th in 2019) and the 99th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 23

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  • 2.89

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  • 3.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Cornelia Sorabji ranks 5,143 out of 7,302. Before her are Joe Eszterhas, Alfonso Sastre, Walter M. Miller Jr., Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Riccardo Bacchelli, and Virgilio Piñera. After her are Gjorgji Abadžiev, Anne V. Coates, Henri Béraud, Alexander Vostokov, Eve Ensler, and Adolf Muschg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Cornelia Sorabji ranks 127. Before her are Italo Santelli, Albertson Van Zo Post, Lola Mora, Ragnar Östberg, George Milne, 1st Baron Milne, and Józef Pankiewicz. After her are José María Caro Rodríguez, Ants Laikmaa, Lena Rice, Mahboob Ali Khan, Sam Eyde, and Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon. Among people deceased in 1954, Cornelia Sorabji ranks 127. Before her are Reinhold Schünzel, Vasily Yan, Jess McMahon, Sydney Greenstreet, Winifred McNair, and Vivian Woodward. After her are Gladys George, Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, Emil Rausch, Jules De Bisschop, Tadeusz Banachiewicz, and Rupert Hollaus.

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In India

Among people born in India, Cornelia Sorabji ranks 652 out of 1,861. Before her are Christian Zacharias (1950), Amitav Ghosh (1956), Medha Patkar (1954), Bindu (1951), Shah Shuja (1616), and Nana Patekar (1951). After her are Farida Jalal (1949), Sheila Dikshit (1938), Ismat Chughtai (1915), Percy Hobart (1885), Guru Dutt (1925), and Arthur E. Kennelly (1861).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Cornelia Sorabji ranks 99. Before her are Suniti Kumar Chatterji (1890), Kedarnath Singh (1934), Swarnakumari Devi (1855), Sahir Ludhianvi (1921), Pratibha Ray (1944), and Amitav Ghosh (1956). After her are Ismat Chughtai (1915), Muthuswami Dikshitar (1775), Nalini Bala Devi (1898), Roshanara Begum (1617), Shrilal Shukla (1925), and Anita Desai (1937).

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