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Narendra Dabholkar

1945 - 2013

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Narendra Achyut Dabholkar (1 November 1945 – 20 August 2013) was an Indian physician, social activist, rationalist and author from Maharashtra, India. In 1989 he founded and became president of the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (MANS, Committee for Eradication of Superstition in Maharashtra). Triggered by his assassination in 2013, the pending Anti-Superstition and Black Magic Ordinance was promulgated in the state of Maharashtra, four days later. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Narendra Dabholkar has received more than 755,465 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Narendra Dabholkar is the 655th most popular physician (down from 563rd in 2019), the 785th most popular biography from India (down from 595th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Indian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Narendra Dabholkar ranks 655 out of 726. Before him are Sophia Jex-Blake, Sir George Staunton, 1st Baronet, Divna Veković, John Heysham Gibbon, Bennet Omalu, and James Ewing. After him are Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson, Mary Putnam Jacobi, William Stokes, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, Harald Natvig, and Yoshioka Yayoi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Narendra Dabholkar ranks 562. Before him are Bjarni Tryggvason, Amos Sawyer, Millie Hughes-Fulford, Wilma Mankiller, Muriel Casals i Couturier, and Michael Hayden. After him are Anthony Braxton, Javier Guzmán, Ghiță Licu, Pinarayi Vijayan, Chris Dreja, and Harry Steevens. Among people deceased in 2013, Narendra Dabholkar ranks 415. Before him are György Gurics, Huell Howser, Ernest Schultz, Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Elías Querejeta, and Eero Kolehmainen. After him are Jean Kent, Tatyana Zaslavskaya, Edward Stevens, Faith Leech, Derek Kevan, and Janet Rowley.

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In India

Among people born in India, Narendra Dabholkar ranks 785 out of 1,861. Before him are Kashibai (1703), Yashwant Sinha (1937), Manohar Joshi (1937), Bipin Rawat (1958), Bano Qudsia (1928), and Raj Babbar (1952). After him are Gopal Swarup Pathak (1896), Mira Nair (1957), Persis Khambatta (1948), Rabri Devi (1956), Nirupa Roy (1931), and Arjun Kapoor (1985).

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Among PHYSICIANS In India

Among physicians born in India, Narendra Dabholkar ranks 6. Before him are Ronald Ross (1857), Sushruta (-620), Kadambini Ganguly (1861), Bidhan Chandra Roy (1882), and Dean Mahomed (1759). After him are Indira Nath (1938), Devi Shetty (1953), Kamal Ranadive (1917), Soumya Swaminathan (1959), Siddhartha Mukherjee (1970), and Suniti Solomon (1938).

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