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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Pingali Venkayya

1876 - 1963

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Pingali Venkayya (2 August 1876/8 – 4 July 1963) was an Indian freedom fighter. He was the designer of the flag on which the initial Indian National Flag was based. He was also a lecturer, author, geologist, educationalist, agriculturist, and a polyglot.At the age of 19, Venkayya had enrolled in the British Indian Army and was deployed to South Africa during the Second Boer War (1899–1902). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pingali Venkayya has received more than 1,422,217 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Pingali Venkayya is the 337th most popular social activist (up from 1,837th in 2019), the 382nd most popular biography from India (up from 400th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Indian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Pingali Venkayya ranks 337 out of 538Before him are Lucretia Mott, Hannie Schaft, Felix Manz, Amelia Bloomer, Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, and Black Elk. After him are Aruna Asaf Ali, Muhammad Zaidan, François-Jean de la Barre, Nasrin Sotoudeh, Susannah Mushatt Jones, and Edna Parker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Pingali Venkayya ranks 100Before him are Claude Farrère, Ivane Javakhishvili, Ahmad Qavam, Ioannis Georgiadis, Maria Ouspenskaya, and Hiroshi Yoshida. After him are Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth, Heinrich Tessenow, Sibilla Aleramo, Friedrich Traun, Leopold von Wiese, and Maurice Tourneur. Among people deceased in 1963, Pingali Venkayya ranks 91Before him are Maria Tănase, Richard Kohn, Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Ivan Bek, and Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz. After him are Margaret Murray, Sophus Nielsen, Vsevolod Ivanov, André Maschinot, Richard Oswald, and August Rei.

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In India

Among people born in India, Pingali Venkayya ranks 382 out of 1,493Before him are Kadambini Ganguly (1861), Vikram Sarabhai (1919), Mala Sinha (1936), Anil Kapoor (1956), Vallabha (1479), and R. K. Narayan (1906). After him are Margaret Murray (1863), Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894), Aruna Asaf Ali (1909), Rishi Kapoor (1952), Hemu (1501), and M. F. Husain (1915).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Pingali Venkayya ranks 24Before him are M. N. Roy (1887), Baba Amte (1914), Harilal Gandhi (1888), Dhondo Keshav Karve (1858), Bhikaiji Cama (1861), and Ram Manohar Lohia (1910). After him are Aruna Asaf Ali (1909), Kamala Nehru (1899), Udham Singh (1899), Rajendra K. Pachauri (1940), Abdul Sattar Edhi (1928), and Har Dayal (1884).