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Syama Prasad Mukherjee

1901 - 1953

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Syama Prasad Mookerjee (6 July 1901 – 23 June 1953) was an Indian barrister, educationist, politician, activist, social worker, and a minister in the state and national governments. Noted for his opposition to Quit India movement within the independence movement in India, he later served as India's first Minister for Industry and Supply (currently known as Minister of Commerce and Industries) in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet after breaking up with the Hindu Mahasabha. After falling out with Nehru, protesting against the Liaquat–Nehru Pact, Mukherjee resigned from Nehru's cabinet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Syama Prasad Mukherjee has received more than 2,757,638 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Syama Prasad Mukherjee is the 14,779th most popular politician (down from 13,326th in 2019), the 642nd most popular biography from India (down from 518th in 2019) and the 192nd most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Syama Prasad Mukherjee ranks 14,779 out of 19,576Before him are Manuel Franco, Yuriy Lutsenko, Margaret Beckett, Helmut Zilk, Rudolf Gnägi, and Oxyntes. After him are Amlaíb Cuarán, László Lukács, John Ross, Zbigniew Rau, Fabián Alarcón, and Emilio Aceval.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Syama Prasad Mukherjee ranks 258Before him are Frank Belknap Long, Casiano Chavarría, Mercedes Comaposada, Reinhold Mack, Cecília Meireles, and Ramón J. Sender. After him are Lisette Model, Mildred Dunnock, Paul Yü Pin, Thawan Thamrongnawasawat, Erich Rademacher, and Spyridon Marinatos. Among people deceased in 1953, Syama Prasad Mukherjee ranks 146Before him are John Christie, Johannes Baumann, Lewis Stone, Szilárd Bogdánffy, Sara Adler, and Edmund Dulac. After him are Rudolph Schindler, Sophia Hayden, Issay Dobrowen, Robert A. Taft, Karel Domin, and John Marin.

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In India

Among people born in India, Syama Prasad Mukherjee ranks 642 out of 1,861Before him are Pratibha Ray (1944), Sudha Murty (1950), Rakesh Roshan (1949), Ram Vilas Paswan (1946), Preity Zinta (1975), and Sulochana Gadgil (1944). After him are Gautam Adani (1962), Ashok Gehlot (1951), Usha Mangeshkar (1935), Christian Zacharias (1950), Amitav Ghosh (1956), and Medha Patkar (1954).

Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Syama Prasad Mukherjee ranks 192Before him are Karamchand Gandhi (1822), K. B. Hedgewar (1889), Lobsang Sangay (1968), Wasim Sajjad (1941), S. Jaishankar (1955), and Ram Vilas Paswan (1946). After him are Ashok Gehlot (1951), Shah Shuja (1616), Sheila Dikshit (1938), Venkaiah Naidu (1949), Mahboob Ali Khan (1866), and Anandiben Patel (1941).