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Jyoti Basu

1914 - 2010

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Jyoti Basu (born Jyotirindra Basu; 8 July 1914 – 17 January 2010) was an Indian Marxist theorist, communist activist, and politician. He was one of the most prominent leaders of Communist movement in India. He served as the 6th and longest serving Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1977 to 2000. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jyoti Basu has received more than 1,748,255 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Jyoti Basu is the 13,100th most popular politician (down from 12,611th in 2019), the 505th most popular biography from India (down from 501st in 2019) and the 156th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jyoti Basu ranks 13,100 out of 15,577Before him are Ezana of Axum, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, Harry Cohn, Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal, Federico Laredo Brú, and Marvin Hart. After him are Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Jubal Early, Christian Lundeberg, Pedro Santana Lopes, Ermesinde of Luxembourg, Countess of Namur, and Vinicio Cerezo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Jyoti Basu ranks 237Before him are Vincent J. McMahon, Wilhelm Hahnemann, William Gibson, Giuseppe Caprio, Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr., and Sarla Thakral. After him are Hermínio de Brito, Johannes Virolainen, Ehrenfried Patzel, Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Adolf Urban, and David Wayne. Among people deceased in 2010, Jyoti Basu ranks 235Before him are Herb Ellis, Enrique Morente, Dezső Bundzsák, Raymond Impanis, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, and Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal. After him are Abbey Lincoln, Harold Gould, Anneliese Rothenberger, Jamie Gillis, Takeshi Shudo, and Vitaly Sevastyanov.

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In India

Among people born in India, Jyoti Basu ranks 505 out of 1,493Before him are John Frost (1912), Kamala Surayya (1934), Christian Zacharias (1950), Charles Gmelin (1872), Madhuri Dixit (1967), and Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (1923). After him are Meira Kumar (1945), Sulochana Gadgil (1944), Amrit Kaur (1889), P. T. Usha (1964), Fauja Singh (1911), and Har Dayal (1884).

Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Jyoti Basu ranks 156Before him are Phoolan Devi (1963), Fatima Jinnah (1893), Islam Shah Suri (1510), Sushma Swaraj (1952), Jaipal Singh Munda (1903), and Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (1923). After him are Meira Kumar (1945), Amrit Kaur (1889), Mayawati (1956), Syama Prasad Mukherjee (1901), Mamata Banerjee (1955), and Alivardi Khan (1671).