WRITER

Ismat Chughtai

1915 - 1991

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Ismat Chughtai (21 August 1915 – 24 October 1991) was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility, and class conflict, often from a Marxist perspective. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ismat Chughtai has received more than 1,022,971 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Ismat Chughtai is the 5,157th most popular writer (down from 5,145th in 2019), the 655th most popular biography from India (down from 602nd in 2019) and the 100th most popular Indian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

My Friend, My Enemy
"Essays, communal violence, literature, women, non-fiction, Lihaaf trial, Bombay, Bhopal."
2001
The Crooked Line (Women Writing the Middle East)
Fiction
Acknowledged masterpiece by foremost Indian woman writer compared to de Beavoir, the Brontës, and Camus.
2006
The Crooked Line (Asian Writers)
India
1995
The Quilt and Other Stories
Fiction
19993 / 5

Page views of Ismat Chughtais by language

Over the past year Ismat Chughtai has had the most page views in the with 89,909 views, followed by Urdu (12,670), and Hindi (10,304). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Western Punjabi (76.26%), Maithili (68.62%), and Egyptian Arabic (56.41%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ismat Chughtai ranks 5,157 out of 7,302. Before her are Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Jean Amrouche, Kenjirō Tokutomi, Dagny Carlsson, Sufia Kamal, and Vera Henriksen. After her are Pieter Jelles Troelstra, José María de Pereda, Hallgrímur Helgason, Ludwig Thoma, Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan, and Peter Härtling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Ismat Chughtai ranks 211. Before her are Eugène Martin, Aníbal Ciocca, Jean Parker, Josef Zeman, Gary Merrill, and Pavel Kadochnikov. After her are Argemiro, Felix Kaspar, Jóhann Hafstein, Alice Faye, Lester del Rey, and Alvin M. Weinberg. Among people deceased in 1991, Ismat Chughtai ranks 196. Before her are Mildred Dunnock, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Jean Van Houtte, Wilfrid Hyde-White, David Marshall Lang, and Ken Uehara. After her are Daniel Oduber Quirós, Inga Gentzel, Márcio Melo, Eva Bosáková, Daniel Mann, and Fiorenzo Marini.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ismat Chughtai ranks 655 out of 1,861. Before her are Bindu (1951), Shah Shuja (1616), Nana Patekar (1951), Cornelia Sorabji (1866), Farida Jalal (1949), and Sheila Dikshit (1938). After her are Percy Hobart (1885), Guru Dutt (1925), Arthur E. Kennelly (1861), Venkaiah Naidu (1949), Mahboob Ali Khan (1866), and Yamini Krishnamurthy (1940).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Ismat Chughtai ranks 100. Before her are Kedarnath Singh (1934), Swarnakumari Devi (1855), Sahir Ludhianvi (1921), Pratibha Ray (1944), Amitav Ghosh (1956), and Cornelia Sorabji (1866). After her are Muthuswami Dikshitar (1775), Nalini Bala Devi (1898), Roshanara Begum (1617), Shrilal Shukla (1925), Anita Desai (1937), and Ravindra Prabhat (1969).

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