WRITER

Khushwant Singh

1915 - 2014

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Khushwant Singh (born Khushal Singh, 2 February 1915 – 20 March 2014) was an Indian author, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician. His experience in the 1947 Partition of India inspired him to write Train to Pakistan in 1956 (made into film in 1998), which became his most well-known novel.Born in Punjab, Khushwant Singh was educated in Modern School, New Delhi, St. Stephen's College, and graduated from Government College, Lahore. He studied at King's College London and was awarded an LL.B. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Khushwant Singh has received more than 2,649,151 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Khushwant Singh is the 5,985th most popular writer (down from 5,439th in 2019), the 99th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 83rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Pakistani Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

A history of the Sikhs
History, Sikhs
1963
Train to Pakistan
1956
The Sikhs today
Sikhs
1964
Delhi
Description and travel, Pictorial works
1983

Page views of Khushwant Singhs by language

Over the past year Khushwant Singh has had the most page views in the with 373,810 views, followed by Hindi (11,704), and Bengali (2,156). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Western Punjabi (94.01%), Simple English (83.52%), and Indonesian (43.76%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Khushwant Singh ranks 5,985 out of 7,302. Before him are Edmund Gosse, William Bell Scott, Vjenceslav Novak, George Holyoake, Francis Chichester, and Jean Dutourd. After him are Liam O'Flaherty, Mihkel Veske, Richard Russo, Sarah Moore Grimké, Vladimir Tendryakov, and Liao Yiwu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Khushwant Singh ranks 251. Before him are Hellmuth Marx, Hanka Bielicka, Godfrey Brown, Mady Rahl, Heinrich Albertz, and Simo Puupponen. After him are Dan Dailey, Brian Shawe-Taylor, Siegfried Purner, Dorothy Poynton-Hill, Ödön Gróf, and Vincent Persichetti. Among people deceased in 2014, Khushwant Singh ranks 448. Before him are Mae Young, Carmen Zapata, Elizabeth Peña, Álex Angulo, Joan Lorring, and Farley Mowat. After him are Eladio Herrera, Javier Guzmán, Albert Reynolds, Steven R. Nagel, Ghiță Licu, and Violetta Ferrari.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Khushwant Singh ranks 99 out of 217. Before him are Sadhana Shivdasani (1941), Prem Chopra (1935), Mulk Raj Anand (1905), Shujaat Hussain (1946), Mirza Masroor Ahmad (1950), and Ram Jethmalani (1923). After him are Asma Jahangir (1952), Mir Hazar Khan Khoso (1929), Bade Ghulam Ali Khan (1902), Khusrau Mirza (1587), Kamini Kaushal (1927), and Manorama (1926).

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Among WRITERS In Pakistan

Among writers born in Pakistan, Khushwant Singh ranks 14. Before him are Tariq Ali (1943), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Sultan Bahu (1630), Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941), Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (1690), and Mulk Raj Anand (1905). After him are Asma Barlas (1950), Bhisham Sahni (1915), Parveen Shakir (1952), Hamid Mir (1966), Kamila Shamsie (1973), and Mohsin Hamid (1971).

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