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Dhondo Keshav Karve

1858 - 1962

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Dhondo Keshav Karve (18 April 1858 – 9 November 1962) (), popularly known as Maharshi Karve, was a social reformer in India in the field of women's welfare. He advocated widow remarriage, and he himself remarried a widow as a widower. Karve was a pioneer in promoting widows' education. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dhondo Keshav Karve has received more than 846,960 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Dhondo Keshav Karve is the 331st most popular social activist (down from 291st in 2019), the 386th most popular biography from India (down from 334th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Indian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Dhondo Keshav Karve ranks 331 out of 840. Before him are Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven, Naziha al-Dulaimi, Viola Desmond, Ricardo Flores Magón, Edna Parker, and Joe Hill. After him are Lampião, Mohamed Bouazizi, Sultan al-Atrash, Vladimir Burtsev, Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, and Sergei Kovalev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Dhondo Keshav Karve ranks 79. Before him are Mikimoto Kōkichi, Eduard von Toll, Stjepan Sarkotić, Gerard Philips, Hans Rott, and Anthon van Rappard. After him are Cipriano Castro, Maximilian Njegovan, Sébastien Faure, Richard Bergh, Wilhelm Fliess, and Hans Meyer. Among people deceased in 1962, Dhondo Keshav Karve ranks 97. Before him are Pierre Benoit, Ricardo Rodríguez, Max Vasmer, José Giral, Pedro Pablo Ramírez, and Edmond Privat. After him are Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, Luigi Carnera, Eugene Aynsley Goossens, Richard Herrmann, Abdullah Goran, and Carl Diem.

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In India

Among people born in India, Dhondo Keshav Karve ranks 386 out of 1,861. Before him are Mad Mike Hoare (1919), Rani Padmini (null), The Great Khali (1972), Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1863), Maithili Sharan Gupt (1886), and Ramananda (1400). After him are Nitish Kumar (1951), Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (1892), Sumitranandan Pant (1900), Iskander Mirza (1899), Sundar Pichai (1972), and Mala Sinha (1936).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Dhondo Keshav Karve ranks 24. Before him are Harilal Gandhi (1888), Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842), Aruna Asaf Ali (1909), Baba Amte (1914), M. N. Roy (1887), and Bhikaiji Cama (1861). After him are Udham Singh (1899), Ram Manohar Lohia (1910), Pingali Venkayya (1876), Madan Lal Dhingra (1883), Kamala Nehru (1899), and Muthulakshmi Reddy (1886).

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