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Mulk Raj Anand

1905 - 2004

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Mulk Raj Anand (12 December 1905 – 28 September 2004) was an Indian writer in English, recognised for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society. One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, together with R. K. Narayan, Ahmad Ali and Raja Rao, was one of the first India-based writers in English to gain an International readership. Anand is admired for his novels and short stories, which have acquired the status of classics of modern Indian English literature; they are noted for their perceptive insight into the lives of the oppressed and for their analysis of impoverishment, exploitation and misfortune. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mulk Raj Anand has received more than 1,565,184 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Mulk Raj Anand is the 5,552nd most popular writer (down from 5,165th in 2019), the 88th most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 96th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Pakistani Writer.

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  • 31

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mulk Raj Anand ranks 5,552 out of 5,755. Before him are Wendela Hebbe, Patricia Wrightson, Ben Shapiro, Terry Bisson, Bess Meredyth, and Javed Akhtar. After him are Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Andrew Davies, Malcolm Bradbury, Eliza Acton, Thomas Hood, and Kaifi Azmi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Mulk Raj Anand ranks 327. Before him are Meade Lux Lewis, Antal Kocsis, Jacques Mairesse, Helen Sawyer Hogg, Chick Webb, and Lev Arnshtam. After him are Kay Francis, Leroy Carr, Robert Bacher, Tommy Flowers, Tex Ritter, and Eleanor Audley. Among people deceased in 2004, Mulk Raj Anand ranks 253. Before him are Raja Ramanna, Shirley Strickland, Alexey Korneyev, Lennart Strand, Julius Sang, and Vilayat Khan. After him are Jacek Kaczmarski, Nirupa Roy, Robert Bacher, Bill Pickering, Alan King, and Kamisese Mara.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Mulk Raj Anand ranks 88 out of 180. Before him are Zafarullah Khan Jamali (1944), Shekhar Kapur (1945), Khushwant Singh (1915), Ramanand Sagar (1917), Muhammad Zafarullah Khan (1893), and Mir Hazar Khan Khoso (1929). After him are Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941), Bade Ghulam Ali Khan (1902), Sadhana Shivdasani (1941), Iqbal Masih (1983), Shaukat Aziz (1949), and Prem Chopra (1935).

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Among WRITERS In Pakistan

Among writers born in Pakistan, Mulk Raj Anand ranks 10. Before him are Amrita Pritam (1919), Krishna Sobti (1925), Rahman Baba (1632), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Tariq Ali (1943), and Khushwant Singh (1915). After him are Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941), Parveen Shakir (1952), Hamid Mir (1966), Kamila Shamsie (1973), Nadeem Aslam (1966), and Mohsin Hamid (1971).

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