SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Gangubai Kothewali

1939 - 1977

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Gangubai Harjeevandas (1928 – 8 September 1977), better known as Gangubai Kothewali or Gangubai Kathiawadi, was an Indian social activist, sex worker and madam of a brothel in the Kamathipura area of Mumbai during the 1960s. Gangubai worked for the rights of sex workers and for the well-being of orphans. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gangubai Kothewali has received more than 7,384,400 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Gangubai Kothewali is the 136th most popular social activist, the 134th most popular biography from India and the 7th most popular Indian Social Activist.

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  • 66.30

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  • 18

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  • 7.33

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  • 1.52

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Gangubai Kothewali ranks 136 out of 840. Before her are Steve Biko, Musa al-Sadr, Vesna Vulović, Pier Gerlofs Donia, Abimael Guzmán, and Mairead Maguire. After her are Hilda Gadea, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Alfred Naujocks, Emily Davison, Vinoba Bhave, and Marianne Bachmeier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Gangubai Kothewali ranks 68. Before her are Ricardo Bofill, Scott Glenn, Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, Dale T. Mortensen, Fikret Abdić, and Marco Bellocchio. After her are Leland H. Hartwell, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Helmut Haller, Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, Dariush Mehrjui, and Susumu Tonegawa. Among people deceased in 1977, Gangubai Kothewali ranks 39. Before her are James Jones, Abdel Halim Hafez, Ali Shariati, Clementine Churchill, Steve Biko, and Francis Gary Powers. After her are Alia Al-Hussein, Olave Baden-Powell, Oskar Morgenstern, Naum Gabo, Modibo Keïta, and Kamal Jumblatt.

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In India

Among people born in India, Gangubai Kothewali ranks 134 out of 1,861. Before her are Sai Baba of Shirdi (1835), Lakshmi Mittal (1950), Dayananda Saraswati (1824), Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918), Abul A'la Maududi (1903), and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883). After her are Ajatashatru (-500), Bharata Muni (-1000), Anna Mani (1918), Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (1879), Muhammad bin Tughluq (1290), and Ghiyas ud din Balban (1200).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Gangubai Kothewali ranks 7. Before her are Mahatma Gandhi (1869), Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904), Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856), Gerald Durrell (1925), Kasturba Gandhi (1869), and Syed Ahmad Khan (1817). After her are Vinoba Bhave (1895), Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866), Mangal Pandey (1827), Kittur Chennamma (1778), Kailash Satyarthi (1954), and Khudiram Bose (1889).

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