SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Malalai of Maiwand

1861 - 1861

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Malalai of Maiwand (Pashto: د ميوند ملالۍ [malɑˈləi]), also known as Malala (Pashto: ملاله), or Malalai Anna (Pashto: ملالۍ انا, meaning Malalai the "Grandmother") is a national folk hero of Afghanistan who rallied Afghan fighters during the Battle of Maiwand which was part of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. She fought alongside Ayub Khan and was responsible for the Afghan victory at the Battle of Maiwand on 27 July 1880. She is also known as "The Afghan Jeanne d'Arc" or as "The Afghan Molly Pitcher" to the Western world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Malalai of Maiwand has received more than 358,129 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Malalai of Maiwand is the 495th most popular social activist (down from 394th in 2019), the 118th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 93rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Afghan Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Malalai of Maiwand ranks 495 out of 840. Before her are Lucy Salani, Meri Mangakāhia, Fred Hampton, Raisa Aronova, Josué de Castro, and Eugénie Cotton. After her are Pretty Boy Floyd, Stokely Carmichael, Dorothea Dix, Bagha Jatin, David Reimer, and Virginia Bolten.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Malalai of Maiwand ranks 118. Before her are Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Phyllis Allen, Émile Grumiaux, Hans Goldschmidt, Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann, and Frederick Russell Burnham. After her are J. B. Bury, Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso, Zygmunt Ajdukiewicz, Theodore Roberts, Anna Brigadere, and Arthur E. Kennelly. Among people deceased in 1861, Malalai of Maiwand ranks 53. Before her are Johann Andreas Wagner, Louis Vicat, Ippolito Nievo, Abel de Pujol, Peter Georg Bang, and José María Obando. After her are Michele Tenore, Manuel Antônio de Almeida, Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer, Frédéric de Lafresnaye, Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea, and Édouard Ménétries.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Malalai of Maiwand ranks 118 out of 177. Before her are Antimachus I (-200), Sima Samar (1957), Abdul Rasul Sayyaf (1946), Ayub Shah Durrani (1800), Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī (1413), and Apollodotus I (-300). After her are Abdul Kabir (1958), Anahita Ratebzad (1931), Ahmad Zia Massoud (1956), Mahmud Shah Durrani (1769), Zaman Shah Durrani (1770), and Ismail of Ghazni (null).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Afghanistan

Among social activists born in Afghanistan, Malalai of Maiwand ranks 2. Before her are Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī (1837). After her are Meena Keshwar Kamal (1956), Zakia Zaki (1962), Sonita Alizadeh (1996), Aqeela Asifi (1966), Aziza Siddiqui (1983), Jamila Afghani (1976), and Bibi Aisha (1991).

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