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Morarji Desai

1896 - 1995

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Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (29 February 1896 – 10 April 1995) was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as the 4th Prime Minister of India between 1977 and 1979 leading the government formed by the Janata Party. During his long career in politics, he held many important posts in government such as Chief Minister of Bombay State, Home Minister, Finance Minister and 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of India. Following the death of Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, Desai was a strong contender for the position of Prime Minister, only to be defeated by Indira Gandhi in 1966. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Morarji Desai has received more than 4,965,397 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Morarji Desai is the 5,416th most popular politician (down from 5,301st in 2019), the 169th most popular biography from India (down from 153rd in 2019) and the 55th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Morarji Desai ranks 5,416 out of 15,577. Before him are Árpád Göncz, Hümaşah Sultan, Joan, Countess of Flanders, Sergei Bagapsh, Emperor Go-Uda, and Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy. After him are Manishtushu, Sheikh Mansur, Gengshi Emperor, Maria of Montpellier, Oichi, and Ramon Berenguer I, Count of Barcelona.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Morarji Desai ranks 69. Before him are Soghomon Tehlirian, Michael Balint, Kenji Miyazawa, Karl August Wittfogel, Kazimierz Kuratowski, and Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont. After him are Heo Jeong, Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff, Boris Skossyreff, Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, and Mark W. Clark. Among people deceased in 1995, Morarji Desai ranks 69. Before him are Ernest Mandel, Joseph Needham, Yves Congar, Nathan Rosen, U Nu, and Heiner Müller. After him are Günter Guillaume, Georges Canguilhem, Takeo Fukuda, Mehdi Bazargan, Alfred Eisenstaedt, and Chen Yun.

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In India

Among people born in India, Morarji Desai ranks 169 out of 1,493. Before him are Anna Leonowens (1831), Sai Baba of Shirdi (1835), Krishnadevaraya (1471), Birsa Munda (1875), Vikramaditya (-102), and Siraj ud-Daulah (1733). After him are Kuvempu (1904), Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (1703), Ram Narayan (1927), Sivananda Saraswati (1887), Chandrakirti (600), and Pushyamitra Shunga (-300).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Morarji Desai ranks 55. Before him are Bahadur Shah I (1643), M. Visvesvaraya (1861), Krishnadevaraya (1471), Birsa Munda (1875), Vikramaditya (-102), and Siraj ud-Daulah (1733). After him are Pushyamitra Shunga (-300), Tarabai (1675), Abdul Karim (1863), Motilal Nehru (1861), Shantanu (null), and Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (1879).

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