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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 207,651 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Raghunath Murmu is the 4,801st most popular writer (down from 4,349th in 2019), the 554th most popular biography from India (down from 481st in 2019) and the 86th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 17

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  • 2.59

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Raghunath Murmu ranks 4,801 out of 5,755Before him are Tobias Wolff, Heðin Brú, Anna Brigadere, Miguel Otero Silva, Tom Robbins, and Thea Beckman. After him are Walter M. Miller Jr., William Harrison Ainsworth, Petr Bezruč, Jan de Hartog, Muthuswami Dikshitar, and Paul van Ostaijen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Raghunath Murmu ranks 264Before him are Arnold Luhaäär, Clarice Benini, Aurélio de Lira Tavares, Ricardo Pérez Godoy, Pedro Solé, and Franco Riccardi. After him are Josef Smistik, Alex Wilson, Fred Alderman, Eivar Widlund, Osvald Käpp, and Inger Hagerup. Among people deceased in 1982, Raghunath Murmu ranks 203Before him are Ivan Mariz, Eleanor Powell, Tauno Palo, Ricardo Pérez Godoy, Pedro Solé, and Hércules de Miranda. After him are Archibald MacLeish, Vasily Rudenkov, Satchel Paige, Charles Walters, Erik Larsson, and Carmelo Robledo.

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In India

Among people born in India, Raghunath Murmu ranks 554 out of 1,493Before him are Mohammad Ali Jauhar (1878), Krishna Prasad Bhattarai (1924), Launceston Elliot (1874), Shrilal Shukla (1925), Devika Rani (1908), and Asaf-ud-Daula (1748). After him are Vijay Mallya (1955), Muthuswami Dikshitar (1775), K. B. Hedgewar (1889), Arthur E. Kennelly (1861), Purushottam Das Tandon (1882), and Girija Devi (1929).

Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Raghunath Murmu ranks 86Before him are Kedarnath Singh (1934), Balamani Amma (1909), Qurratulain Hyder (1927), Mamoni Raisom Goswami (1942), Hansa Jivraj Mehta (1897), and Shrilal Shukla (1925). After him are Muthuswami Dikshitar (1775), Ravindra Kelekar (1925), Cornelia Sorabji (1866), Amitav Ghosh (1956), Anita Desai (1937), and Ismat Chughtai (1915).