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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Nirmala Srivastava

1923 - 2011

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Nirmala Srivastava (née Nirmala Salve; 21 March 1923 – 23 February 2011), also known as Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, was the founder and guru of Sahaja Yoga, a new religious movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nirmala Srivastava has received more than 732,708 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Nirmala Srivastava is the 2,079th most popular religious figure (down from 1,641st in 2019), the 428th most popular biography from India (down from 335th in 2019) and the 41st most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Nirmala Srivastava ranks 2,079 out of 2,238Before her are Laurence of Canterbury, Polyeuctus of Constantinople, Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini, Nicolas Trigault, Ignatius Brianchaninov, and Benedict Menni. After her are Theodotus of Byzantium, Vincenzo Carafa, Caterina Volpicelli, Pope Achillas of Alexandria, Wlodimir Ledóchowski, and Antonio Innocenti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Nirmala Srivastava ranks 220Before her are Giulio Cabianca, Barney Kessel, Carlos Páez Vilaró, Morris Halle, Giuseppe Rotunno, and Alice von Hildebrand. After her are Rentarō Mikuni, Ioannis Grivas, Gordon R. Dickson, Octavio Lepage, Jean-Paul Riopelle, and Isao Kimura. Among people deceased in 2011, Nirmala Srivastava ranks 207Before her are Karen Khachaturian, Arnfinn Bergmann, Hidemaro Watanabe, Jacques Fatton, Inge Sørensen, and Sakyo Komatsu. After her are C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, Mutassim Gaddafi, Sargent Shriver, Nicol Williamson, Nate Dogg, and Valery Rozhdestvensky.

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In India

Among people born in India, Nirmala Srivastava ranks 428 out of 1,493Before her are Jaimini (-390), M. S. Swaminathan (1925), Jai Singh II (1688), Kumar Sanu (1957), Guru Har Krishan (1656), and Jayalalithaa (1948). After her are Kamala Nehru (1899), Krishan Chander (1914), Nagarjun (1911), Fathima Beevi (1927), Arundhati Roy (1961), and Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Nirmala Srivastava ranks 41Before her are Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri (1855), Abbé Faria (1756), Joseph Vaz (1651), Swaminarayan (1781), Ivan Dias (1936), and Guru Har Krishan (1656). After her are Prahlad Jani (1929), Saint Alphonsa (1910), Kuriakose Elias Chavara (1805), Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889), Roberto de Nobili (1577), and Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy (1924).