SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Lal Bahadur Shastri

1904 - 1966

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Lal Bahadur Shastri (pronounced [lɑːl bəˈhɑːd̪ʊɾ ˈʃɑːst̪ɾi] ; born Lal Bahadur Srivastava; 2 October 1904 – 11 January 1966) was an Indian politician and statesman who served as the Prime Minister of India from 1964 to 1966. He previously served as Home Minister from 1961 to 1963. Shastri was born in a Hindu Chitraguptavanshi kayastha community to Sharad Prasad Srivastava and Ramdulari Devi in Mughalsarai (present-day Uttar Pradesh) on 2 October 1904. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lal Bahadur Shastri has received more than 9,324,008 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Lal Bahadur Shastri is the 51st most popular social activist (up from 67th in 2019), the 51st most popular biography from India (up from 64th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Indian Social Activist.

Lal Bahadur Shastri is most famous for being the second Prime Minister of India. He was a leader of the Indian National Congress and is known for his work in the fields of agriculture and education.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Lal Bahadur Shastri ranks 51 out of 840. Before him are Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Pheidippides, Emma Goldman, Lê Đức Thọ, Yemelyan Pugachev, and Alexey Stakhanov. After him are Carl von Ossietzky, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Fanny Kaplan, Alfred Hermann Fried, and Túpac Amaru II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Lal Bahadur Shastri ranks 15. Before him are Jean Gabin, B. F. Skinner, Ève Curie, Johnny Weissmuller, George Gamow, and Alexei Kosygin. After him are Graham Greene, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Karl Brandt, René Lacoste, Pavel Cherenkov, and Hans Albert Einstein. Among people deceased in 1966, Lal Bahadur Shastri ranks 14. Before him are Sergei Korolev, Ken Miles, Sepp Dietrich, Chester W. Nimitz, Jean Arp, and Peter Debye. After him are Giuseppe Farina, Frits Zernike, Felix Steiner, Cemal Gürsel, George de Hevesy, and Dietrich von Choltitz.

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In India

Among people born in India, Lal Bahadur Shastri ranks 51 out of 1,861. Before him are Amartya Sen (1933), Ghalib (1797), Tipu Sultan (1750), Savitribai Phule (1831), Meera (1498), and Augustus De Morgan (1806). After him are C. V. Raman (1888), Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856), Vallabhbhai Patel (1875), Harsha (590), Vyasa (-390), and Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Lal Bahadur Shastri ranks 2. Before him are Mahatma Gandhi (1869). After him are Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856), Gerald Durrell (1925), Kasturba Gandhi (1869), Syed Ahmad Khan (1817), Gangubai Kothewali (1939), Vinoba Bhave (1895), Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866), Mangal Pandey (1827), Kittur Chennamma (1778), and Kailash Satyarthi (1954).

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