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K. B. Hedgewar

1889 - 1940

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Keshav Baliram Hedgewar (1 April 1889 – 21 June 1940) , also known by his moniker Doctorji was a Hindutva activist, physician and the founder of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of K. B. Hedgewar has received more than 1,999,682 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). K. B. Hedgewar is the 14,544th most popular politician (down from 13,868th in 2019), the 622nd most popular biography from India (down from 553rd in 2019) and the 187th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, K. B. Hedgewar ranks 14,544 out of 19,576. Before him are Robin Cook, Gamal Mubarak, Yan Huiqing, Vernon A. Walters, Bainbridge Colby, and Francis Biddle. After him are Cornel Penu, Eduardo Schaerer, William Colby, Louis McLane, Li Xi, and Erich Mende.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, K. B. Hedgewar ranks 229. Before him are Ted Wilde, Fanny Durack, Walter Catlett, Stafford Cripps, Carl O. Sauer, and Dietrich Kraiss. After him are Carl Folcker, Balthasar van der Pol, Sven Markelius, Matilde Hidalgo, Menen Asfaw, and Suzanne Duchamp. Among people deceased in 1940, K. B. Hedgewar ranks 153. Before him are Martti Marttelin, Julián Besteiro, Janne Lundblad, Johan Anker, Edgar Adams, and Nathanael West. After him are Mato Kósyk, Hanna Pauli, Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, István Énekes, Józef Pankiewicz, and Eric Gill.

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In India

Among people born in India, K. B. Hedgewar ranks 622 out of 1,861. Before him are Karamchand Gandhi (1822), Rani Mukerji (1978), Mary Boyce (1920), Suniti Kumar Chatterji (1890), Kedarnath Singh (1934), and Swarnakumari Devi (1855). After him are Lobsang Sangay (1968), Sahir Ludhianvi (1921), ʽAbd al-Qadir Badayuni (1540), Indra Nooyi (1955), Rajkumar (1929), and Abhishek Bachchan (1976).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, K. B. Hedgewar ranks 187. Before him are BP Koirala (1914), George Fernandes (1930), Jaipal Singh Munda (1903), Gopinath Bordoloi (1890), Purushottam Das Tandon (1882), and Karamchand Gandhi (1822). After him are Lobsang Sangay (1968), Wasim Sajjad (1941), S. Jaishankar (1955), Ram Vilas Paswan (1946), Syama Prasad Mukherjee (1901), and Ashok Gehlot (1951).

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