SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Medha Patkar

1954 - Today

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Medha Patkar (née Khanolkar; born 1 December 1954) is a politician and activist working on certain political and social issues raised by tribals, dalits, farmers, labourers and women facing injustice in India. She is an alumnus of TISS, a premier institute of social science research in India.. Patkar is the founder member of the movement called Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) in three states: Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Medha Patkar has received more than 1,270,737 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Medha Patkar is the 508th most popular social activist (down from 450th in 2019), the 648th most popular biography from India (down from 562nd in 2019) and the 41st most popular Indian Social Activist.

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  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Medha Patkars by language

Over the past year Medha Patkar has had the most page views in the with 113,796 views, followed by Hindi (24,703), and Marathi (7,321). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (41.51%), Indonesian (31.78%), and Maithili (23.58%)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Medha Patkar ranks 508 out of 840. Before her are Gertrud Adelborg, Mari Beyleryan, Denis Goldberg, Nadia Murad, Daniel De Leon, and Efua Dorkenoo. After her are Hebe de Bonafini, William Luther Pierce, Helene Stöcker, Gunnar Sønsteby, Jerry Rubin, and Ivan Betskoy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Medha Patkar ranks 354. Before her are Michael Badalucco, Guy Kawasaki, Alex Salmond, Graziano Rossi, Bob Menendez, and Einar Már Guðmundsson. After her are Piero Gros, Brother Alois, Patrick St. Esprit, Jeffrey Combs, Ziad Fazah, and Hary Gunarto.

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In India

Among people born in India, Medha Patkar ranks 648 out of 1,861. Before her are Syama Prasad Mukherjee (1901), Gautam Adani (1962), Ashok Gehlot (1951), Usha Mangeshkar (1935), Christian Zacharias (1950), and Amitav Ghosh (1956). After her are Bindu (1951), Shah Shuja (1616), Nana Patekar (1951), Cornelia Sorabji (1866), Farida Jalal (1949), and Sheila Dikshit (1938).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Medha Patkar ranks 41. Before her are Sugathakumari (1934), Mohammad Ali Jauhar (1878), Shivakumara Swami (1907), Charu Majumdar (1918), Ela Bhatt (1933), and Har Dayal (1884). After her are Neerja Bhanot (1963), Manilal Gandhi (1892), Veerappan (1952), Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (1947), Usha Mehta (1920), and Jamnalal Bajaj (1889).

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