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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Mangal Pandey

1827 - 1857

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Mangal Pandey was an Indian soldier who played a key role in the events taking place just before the outbreak of the Indian rebellion of 1857. He was a sepoy (infantryman) in the 34th Bengal Native Infantry (BNI) regiment of the British East India Company. In 1984, the Indian government issued a postage stamp to remember him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mangal Pandey has received more than 3,250,476 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Mangal Pandey is the 132nd most popular social activist (up from 158th in 2019), the 127th most popular biography from India (up from 133rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Indian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mangal Pandey ranks 132 out of 538. Before him are Alfred Naujocks, Sophia of Prussia, Alexander Parvus, Meng Huo, Gerda Christian, and John Brown. After him are Sergey Nechayev, Leila Khaled, Frederick Douglass, Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, Klaus Störtebeker, and Mairead Maguire.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1827, Mangal Pandey ranks 13. Before him are Francisco Solano López, Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, Marcellin Berthelot, Deodoro da Fonseca, Jyotirao Phule, and John Hanning Speke. After him are William Holman Hunt, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Charles De Coster, Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, Mihály Zichy, and George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon. Among people deceased in 1857, Mangal Pandey ranks 16. Before him are Francis Beaufort, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Johan Christian Dahl, and Louis Jacques Thénard. After him are Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Josef Ressel, Alcide d'Orbigny, Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg, George Cayley, and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

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In India

Among people born in India, Mangal Pandey ranks 127 out of 1,493. Before him are Bharata Muni (-1000), Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883), Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918), Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899), Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936), and Buddhaghosa (401). After him are Vidyapati (1352), Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621), Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551), Dayananda Saraswati (1824), Prithviraj Chauhan (1159), and Anthony de Mello (1931).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Mangal Pandey ranks 9. Before him are Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904), Kasturba Gandhi (1869), Gerald Durrell (1925), Syed Ahmad Khan (1817), Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866), and Vinoba Bhave (1895). After him are Kittur Chennamma (1778), Kailash Satyarthi (1954), Vandana Shiva (1952), C. Rajagopalachari (1878), Jayaprakash Narayan (1902), and Anna Hazare (1937).

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