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Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

1820 - 1891

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Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay (26 September 1820 – 29 July 1891), popularly known as Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (lit. 'Vidyasagar, the Sea of Knowledge'), was an Indian educator and social reformer of the nineteenth century. His efforts to simplify and modernise Bengali prose were significant. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar has received more than 3,479,403 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar is the 1,228th most popular writer (down from 1,188th in 2019), the 157th most popular biography from India (down from 140th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar ranks 1,228 out of 7,302. Before her are Wilhelm Weitling, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Sarah, Duchess of York, James Anderson, Brian Tracy, and Giovanni Verga. After her are Harry Harrison, Juliusz Słowacki, Maurus Servius Honoratus, David Irving, José Maria de Eça de Queirós, and Blaise Cendrars.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1820, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar ranks 22. Before her are Lewis A. Swift, Mathilde Bonaparte, Edmond Becquerel, Heungseon Daewongun, Yaqub Beg, and John Tyndall. After her are William Tecumseh Sherman, John Tenniel, Princess Alexandrine of Baden, Édouard Roche, Şevkefza Kadın, and Eugène Fromentin. Among people deceased in 1891, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar ranks 29. Before her are Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, Franz Miklosich, Édouard Lucas, Theophil Hansen, Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, and Princess Cecilie of Baden. After her are Ernest Meissonier, Kalākaua, Johan Jongkind, William Tecumseh Sherman, Joseph Petzval, and Louis Lucien Bonaparte.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar ranks 157 out of 1,861. Before her are Subramania Bharati (1882), Bahadur Shah I (1643), Pranab Mukherjee (1935), V. V. Giri (1894), Pratibha Patil (1934), and Engelbert Humperdinck (1936). After her are Ravidas (1450), Mangal Pandey (1827), Mahesh Bhatt (1948), Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936), Zakir Husain (1897), and Jyotirao Phule (1827).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar ranks 28. Before her are Vidyapati (1352), Deepak Chopra (1946), Sankardev (1449), Bāṇabhaṭṭa (601), Namdev (1270), and Subramania Bharati (1882). After her are Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551), Mahadevi Varma (1907), Dnyaneshwar (1275), B. K. S. Iyengar (1918), Andal (800), and Kuvempu (1904).

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