WRITER

Raghunath Murmu

1905 - 1982

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Raghunath Murmu (5 May 1905 – 1 February 1982) was an Indian Santali writer and educator. He developed the Ol Chiki script for Santali language. Until the nineteenth century, Santali people had no written language and knowledge was transmitted orally from one generation to other. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raghunath Murmu has received more than 231,801 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Raghunath Murmu is the 4,414th most popular writer (up from 4,785th in 2019), the 550th most popular biography from India and the 82nd most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Raghunath Murmu ranks 4,414 out of 7,302Before him are Anna Katharine Green, Gerardo Diego, Abdul Rahman Munif, Kikkuli, Greg Bear, and Janwillem van de Wetering. After him are Mykola Kulish, Sara Lidman, Yuri Vizbor, Gerbrand Bredero, Eggert Ólafsson, and Stanislas Julien.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Raghunath Murmu ranks 234Before him are J. William Fulbright, Vladimír Holan, Ibrahim Tuqan, Johannes Käbin, Lev Atamanov, and Fred Alderman. After him are Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, John Kuck, László Raffinsky, Floyd Gottfredson, Leila Hyams, and Kunio Maekawa. Among people deceased in 1982, Raghunath Murmu ranks 175Before him are Stanisław Ostrowski, Ludwig Bieberbach, Fernando Lamas, Allen Woodring, Nikolai Kamanin, and Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald. After him are Palden Thondup Namgyal, Lightnin' Hopkins, Robert Havemann, Boris Andreyev, Tomás Romero Pereira, and Hendrik Wade Bode.

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In India

Among people born in India, Raghunath Murmu ranks 550 out of 1,861Before him are N. T. Rama Rao (1923), Bhagwan Das (1869), Kumar Sanu (1957), Barry Hay (1948), Shuja-ud-Daula (1732), and Pankaj Kapur (1954). After him are Palden Thondup Namgyal (1923), K. J. Yesudas (1940), Uttam Kumar (1926), Devika Rani (1908), Sarala Devi Chaudhurani (1872), and Jeannette Altwegg (1930).

Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Raghunath Murmu ranks 82Before him are Arundhati Roy (1961), Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (1887), Saadat Hasan Manto (1912), Krishan Chander (1914), Nirmal Verma (1929), and Balamani Amma (1909). After him are Sarala Devi Chaudhurani (1872), Yashpal (1903), Hasrat Mohani (1875), Kamala Surayya (1934), Jayakanthan (1934), and Cerverí de Girona (1259).