SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Ela Bhatt

1933 - 2022

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Ela Ramesh Bhatt (7 September 1933 – 2 November 2022) was an Indian cooperative organiser, activist and Gandhian, who founded the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA) in 1972, and served as its general secretary from 1972 to 1996. She was the chancellor of the Gujarat Vidyapith from 7 March 2015 to 19 October 2022. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ela Bhatt has received more than 400,060 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Ela Bhatt is the 474th most popular social activist (down from 457th in 2019), the 596th most popular biography from India (down from 578th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Indian Social Activist.

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  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.57

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  • 4.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Ela Bhatt ranks 474 out of 840. Before her are Jack Sheppard, Charu Majumdar, Eugen Drewermann, Giuseppe Impastato, Ted Grant, and Parashqevi Qiriazi. After her are Joseph Wresinski, Medgar Evers, Hereward the Wake, Phyllis Schlafly, Danuta Wałęsa, and Har Dayal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Ela Bhatt ranks 345. Before her are Ruth Arnon, Janet Baker, Michael Frayn, Bob Bondurant, Alfredo Landa, and Semyon Farada. After her are Yelena Gorchakova, William Kahan, Valentin Bubukin, Don Thompson, Ira Murchison, and Bengt Berndtsson. Among people deceased in 2022, Ela Bhatt ranks 342. Before her are Martin Bangemann, Luiz of Orléans-Braganza, Jan Nowicki, David Cox, Joaquim Carvalho, and Carmela Corren. After her are Víctor Benítez, Jô Soares, Bob Falkenburg, Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Anatoly Alyabyev, and Zhang Jie.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ela Bhatt ranks 596 out of 1,861. Before her are George Fernandes (1930), Jaipal Singh Munda (1903), Mamoni Raisom Goswami (1942), Dharamvir Bharati (1926), Gopinath Bordoloi (1890), and Kamal Haasan (1954). After her are Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard (1858), Homai Vyarawalla (1913), Mukesh (1923), Saif Ali Khan (1970), Tiger Shroff (1990), and Har Dayal (1884).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Ela Bhatt ranks 39. Before her are Rajendra K. Pachauri (1940), Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903), Sugathakumari (1934), Mohammad Ali Jauhar (1878), Shivakumara Swami (1907), and Charu Majumdar (1918). After her are Har Dayal (1884), Medha Patkar (1954), Neerja Bhanot (1963), Manilal Gandhi (1892), Veerappan (1952), and Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (1947).

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