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Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

1820 - 1891

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Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay (popularly known as Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar; Bengali: ঈশ্বরচন্দ্র বিদ্যাসাগর, lit. 'Ishwar Chandra, the Sea of Knowledge'; 26 September 1820 – 29 July 1891) 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 3,270,057 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar is the 1,190th most popular writer (up from 1,553rd in 2019), the 141st most popular biography from India (up from 159th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar ranks 1,190 out of 5,755Before her are Thomas De Quincey, Gottfried Keller, Henri Murger, Herrad of Landsberg, John Dickson Carr, and Hélène Cixous. After her are Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Paul Bourget, Roger Caillois, Gabriele Amorth, Claudio Magris, and Max Nordau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1820, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar ranks 23Before her are Princess Alexandrine of Baden, Lewis A. Swift, William John Macquorn Rankine, John Tyndall, Mathilde Bonaparte, and John Tenniel. After her are Yaqub Beg, Edmond Becquerel, Édouard Roche, Afanasy Fet, Şevkefza Kadın, and Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois. Among people deceased in 1891, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar ranks 27Before her are Georges Ernest Boulanger, Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, Jan Neruda, Charles I of Württemberg, Franz Miklosich, and Princess Cecilie of Baden. After her are Ernest Meissonier, Édouard Lucas, Theophil Hansen, Edmond Becquerel, Johan Jongkind, and Kalākaua.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar ranks 141 out of 1,493Before her are Pranab Mukherjee (1935), Ravidas (1450), Chandra Shekhar Azad (1906), Madhvacharya (1199), Pratibha Patil (1934), and Abul A'la Maududi (1903). After her are Zakir Husain (1897), Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924), Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (1887), Shantideva (685), Kittur Chennamma (1778), and V. V. Giri (1894).

Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar ranks 26Before her are Namdev (1270), Bāṇabhaṭṭa (601), Bharata Muni (-1000), Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899), Vidyapati (1352), and Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551). After her are B. K. S. Iyengar (1918), Mahadevi Varma (1907), Subramania Bharati (1882), Anna Leonowens (1831), Kuvempu (1904), and Andal (800).