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Kazi Nazrul Islam

1899 - 1976

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Kazi Nazrul Islam (Bengali: কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম, pronounced [kad͡ʒi ˈnod͡ʒɾul islam] ; 24 May 1899 – 29 August 1976), also known as the Rebel Poet, was a popular Bengali poet, writer, lyrist and the national poet of Bangladesh. Nazrul produced a large body of poetry, music, messages, novels, and stories with themes that included equality, justice, anti-imperialism, humanity, rebellion against oppression and religious devotion. Nazrul Islam's activism for political and social justice as well as writing a poem titled as "Bidrohī", meaning "the rebel" in Bengali, earned him the title of "Bidrohī Kôbi" (Rebel Poet). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kazi Nazrul Islam has received more than 2,269,967 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Kazi Nazrul Islam is the 1,065th most popular writer (up from 1,267th in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from India (down from 122nd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 60.49

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  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kazi Nazrul Islam ranks 1,065 out of 5,755. Before him are Robert Graves, Leonid Andreyev, Adalberon, Irwin Shaw, Branislav Nušić, and Cormac McCarthy. After him are W. H. Auden, Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, Madeleine de Scudéry, Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Marcel Pagnol, and Sulpicius Severus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Kazi Nazrul Islam ranks 44. Before him are Chang Myon, Charles Laughton, James Cagney, Suzanne Lenglen, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, and Ludwig Guttmann. After him are Louis Chiron, Sobhuza II, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Lev Kuleshov, Henri Michaux, and Lao She. Among people deceased in 1976, Kazi Nazrul Islam ranks 45. Before him are Mitsuo Fuchida, Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, Silvana Armenulić, Paul Lazarsfeld, and Eileen Gray. After him are Yonatan Netanyahu, Lin Yutang, George Ostrogorsky, João Goulart, Tove Ditlevsen, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.

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In India

Among people born in India, Kazi Nazrul Islam ranks 124 out of 1,493. Before him are James Brooke (1803), Bāṇabhaṭṭa (601), Sushruta (-620), Bharata Muni (-1000), Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883), and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918). After him are Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936), Buddhaghosa (401), Mangal Pandey (1827), Vidyapati (1352), Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621), and Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Kazi Nazrul Islam ranks 23. Before him are Basava (1134), Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838), Ahmed Deedat (1918), Namdev (1270), Bāṇabhaṭṭa (601), and Bharata Muni (-1000). After him are Vidyapati (1352), Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551), Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820), B. K. S. Iyengar (1918), Mahadevi Varma (1907), and Subramania Bharati (1882).

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