SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Har Dayal

1884 - 1939

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Lala Rudra Dayal Mathur (Punjabi: ਲਾਲਾ ਹਰਦਿਆਲ; 14 October 1884 – 4 March 1939) was an Indian nationalist revolutionary and freedom fighter. He was a polymath who turned down a career in the Indian Civil Service. His simple living and intellectual acumen inspired many expatriate Indians living in Canada and the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Har Dayal has received more than 349,267 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Har Dayal is the 480th most popular social activist (down from 422nd in 2019), the 602nd most popular biography from India (down from 507th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Indian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Har Dayal ranks 480 out of 840. Before him are Ela Bhatt, Joseph Wresinski, Medgar Evers, Hereward the Wake, Phyllis Schlafly, and Danuta Wałęsa. After him are José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo, David Sassoon, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Teuku Umar, Ibrahim Zakzaky, and Theodor Loos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Har Dayal ranks 180. Before him are Nora Barnacle, Rodney Heath, Otto Froitzheim, Joseph Sweeney, Sofiya Nalepinska-Boychuk, and Harry Ferguson. After him are Kurt Behrens, Axel Norling, Georges Pitoëff, Nikolai Klyuev, Samuel Berger, and Olle Lanner. Among people deceased in 1939, Har Dayal ranks 125. Before him are Dmitry Grave, Zane Grey, Oton Iveković, Gwen John, Muhammad Ali Bey al-Abid, and Fausto dos Santos. After him are Georges Pitoëff, Madeleine Pelletier, Ford Sterling, Platon Oyunsky, Halil Pasha, and Prosper Bruggeman.

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In India

Among people born in India, Har Dayal ranks 602 out of 1,861. Before him are Ela Bhatt (1933), Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard (1858), Homai Vyarawalla (1913), Mukesh (1923), Saif Ali Khan (1970), and Tiger Shroff (1990). After him are V. S. Ramachandran (1951), Mumtaz (1947), Prakash Raj (1965), C. N. R. Rao (1934), Bachendri Pal (1954), and Randhir Kapoor (1947).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Har Dayal ranks 40. Before him are Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903), Sugathakumari (1934), Mohammad Ali Jauhar (1878), Shivakumara Swami (1907), Charu Majumdar (1918), and Ela Bhatt (1933). After him are Medha Patkar (1954), Neerja Bhanot (1963), Manilal Gandhi (1892), Veerappan (1952), Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (1947), and Usha Mehta (1920).

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