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Mangal Pandey

1827 - 1857

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Mangal Pandey (died 8 April 1857) was an Indian soldier who played a key role in the events that led to the Indian Rebellion of 1857, which resulted in the dissolution of the East India Company and the beginning of the British Raj through the Government of India Act 1858. He was a sepoy in the 34th Regiment of the Bengal Native Infantry. In 1984, the Republic of India issued a postage stamp in his memory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mangal Pandey has received more than 3,428,427 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Mangal Pandey is the 149th most popular social activist (down from 132nd in 2019), the 159th most popular biography from India (down from 126th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Indian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mangal Pandey ranks 149 out of 840. Before him are John Brown, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Bertha Pappenheim, Meng Huo, Beppe Grillo, and Andrés Bonifacio. After him are Paul Schäfer, Guru Ram Das, Klaus Störtebeker, Dmitry Muratov, Jacques Roux, and Gerda Christian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1827, Mangal Pandey ranks 15. Before him are Deodoro da Fonseca, Marcellin Berthelot, William Holman Hunt, Charles De Coster, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, and Wilhelm von Tegetthoff. After him are Jyotirao Phule, John Hanning Speke, Oswald Achenbach, Jules Breton, Frederick Abel, and Konstantin Pobedonostsev. Among people deceased in 1857, Mangal Pandey ranks 17. Before him are Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Francis Beaufort, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Louis Jacques Thénard, and Johan Christian Dahl. After him are Josef Ressel, Alcide d'Orbigny, Marquis de Custine, George Cayley, Théodolinde de Beauharnais, and Achille Devéria.

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In India

Among people born in India, Mangal Pandey ranks 159 out of 1,861. Before him are Pranab Mukherjee (1935), V. V. Giri (1894), Pratibha Patil (1934), Engelbert Humperdinck (1936), Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820), and Ravidas (1450). After him are Mahesh Bhatt (1948), Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936), Zakir Husain (1897), Jyotirao Phule (1827), Madhvacharya (1199), and Vikramaditya (-102).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Mangal Pandey ranks 10. Before him are Gerald Durrell (1925), Kasturba Gandhi (1869), Syed Ahmad Khan (1817), Gangubai Kothewali (1939), Vinoba Bhave (1895), and Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866). After him are Kittur Chennamma (1778), Kailash Satyarthi (1954), Khudiram Bose (1889), Anna Hazare (1937), C. Rajagopalachari (1878), and Jayaprakash Narayan (1902).

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