1898 - 1971
Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (23 July 1898 – 14 September 1971) was an Indian novelist who wrote in the Bengali language. He wrote 65 novels, 53-story-books, 12 plays, 4 essay-books, 4 autobiographies, 2 travel stories and composed several songs. He was awarded Rabindra Puraskar, Sahitya Akademi Award, Jnanpith Award, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay has received more than 311,924 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay is the 3,924th most popular writer (down from 3,775th in 2019), the 455th most popular biography from India (down from 404th in 2019) and the 74th most popular Indian Writer.
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Among writers, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay ranks 3,924 out of 5,755. Before him are Aleksei Kruchyonykh, Brigitte Hamann, Mike Resnick, Karl Ove Knausgård, Gheorghe Asachi, and Gordon Willis. After him are Vladimir Megre, Emmanuel Bove, Yoshiki Tanaka, Justinas Marcinkevičius, Louise-Victorine Ackermann, and Gabriel Chevallier.
1886 - 1968
HPI: 48.88
Rank: 3,918
1940 - 2016
HPI: 48.88
Rank: 3,919
1942 - 2020
HPI: 48.88
Rank: 3,920
1968 - Present
HPI: 48.88
Rank: 3,921
1788 - 1869
HPI: 48.87
Rank: 3,922
1931 - 2014
HPI: 48.87
Rank: 3,923
1898 - 1971
HPI: 48.87
Rank: 3,924
1950 - Present
HPI: 48.87
Rank: 3,925
1898 - 1945
HPI: 48.87
Rank: 3,926
1952 - Present
HPI: 48.86
Rank: 3,927
1930 - 2011
HPI: 48.86
Rank: 3,928
1813 - 1890
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 3,929
1895 - 1969
HPI: 48.84
Rank: 3,930
Among people born in 1898, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay ranks 161. Before him are Boughera El Ouafi, Anthony McAuliffe, Simon Vestdijk, Hugh O'Flaherty, Arend Heyting, and Louis Adamic. After him are Emmanuel Bove, Aksel Airo, Vasily Lebedev-Kumach, Félix Sesúmaga, Renée Adorée, and Bessie Love. Among people deceased in 1971, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay ranks 126. Before him are Richard Montague, Bengt Ekerot, Wynton Kelly, Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, Shunryū Suzuki, and Simon Vestdijk. After him are Joseph Helffrich, Josef Košťálek, Jean-Pierre Monseré, Guillermo León Valencia, John Dall, and Cyril of Bulgaria.
1898 - 1959
HPI: 49.02
Rank: 155
1898 - 1975
HPI: 49.01
Rank: 156
1898 - 1971
HPI: 49.01
Rank: 157
1898 - 1963
HPI: 48.99
Rank: 158
1898 - 1980
HPI: 48.96
Rank: 159
1898 - 1951
HPI: 48.95
Rank: 160
1898 - 1971
HPI: 48.87
Rank: 161
1898 - 1945
HPI: 48.87
Rank: 162
1898 - 1985
HPI: 48.86
Rank: 163
1898 - 1949
HPI: 48.77
Rank: 164
1898 - 1925
HPI: 48.70
Rank: 165
1898 - 1933
HPI: 48.65
Rank: 166
1898 - 1986
HPI: 48.63
Rank: 167
1930 - 1971
HPI: 49.87
Rank: 120
1920 - 1971
HPI: 49.65
Rank: 121
1931 - 1971
HPI: 49.41
Rank: 122
1887 - 1971
HPI: 49.14
Rank: 123
1904 - 1971
HPI: 49.13
Rank: 124
1898 - 1971
HPI: 49.01
Rank: 125
1898 - 1971
HPI: 48.87
Rank: 126
1890 - 1971
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 127
1909 - 1971
HPI: 48.75
Rank: 128
1948 - 1971
HPI: 48.63
Rank: 129
1909 - 1971
HPI: 48.61
Rank: 130
1920 - 1971
HPI: 48.56
Rank: 131
1901 - 1971
HPI: 48.56
Rank: 132
Among people born in India, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay ranks 455 out of 1,493. Before him are Derek Prince (1915), Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888), Nirmal Verma (1929), Mahadev Desai (1892), Birju Maharaj (1937), and Saint Alphonsa (1910). After him are Jagat Gosain (1573), Venkaiah Naidu (1949), Suriya (1975), Dharamvir Bharati (1926), Amjad Khan (1940), and Janaki Ammal (1897).
1915 - 2003
HPI: 48.98
Rank: 449
1888 - 1989
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 450
1929 - 2005
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 451
1892 - 1942
HPI: 48.93
Rank: 452
1937 - 2022
HPI: 48.90
Rank: 453
1910 - 1946
HPI: 48.90
Rank: 454
1898 - 1971
HPI: 48.87
Rank: 455
1573 - 1619
HPI: 48.82
Rank: 456
1949 - Present
HPI: 48.81
Rank: 457
1975 - Present
HPI: 48.80
Rank: 458
1926 - 1997
HPI: 48.79
Rank: 459
1940 - 1992
HPI: 48.77
Rank: 460
1897 - 1984
HPI: 48.74
Rank: 461
Among writers born in India, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay ranks 74. Before him are Nagarjun (1911), Arundhati Roy (1961), Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (1887), Yashpal (1903), Nirmal Verma (1929), and Mahadev Desai (1892). After him are Dharamvir Bharati (1926), Kamini Roy (1864), Saadat Hasan Manto (1912), Kamala Surayya (1934), Jayakanthan (1934), and Kedarnath Singh (1934).
1911 - 1998
HPI: 49.51
Rank: 68
1961 - Present
HPI: 49.41
Rank: 69
1887 - 1971
HPI: 49.14
Rank: 70
1903 - 1976
HPI: 49.07
Rank: 71
1929 - 2005
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 72
1892 - 1942
HPI: 48.93
Rank: 73
1898 - 1971
HPI: 48.87
Rank: 74
1926 - 1997
HPI: 48.79
Rank: 75
1864 - 1933
HPI: 48.31
Rank: 76
1912 - 1955
HPI: 48.07
Rank: 77
1934 - 2009
HPI: 47.58
Rank: 78
1934 - 2015
HPI: 47.24
Rank: 79
1934 - 2018
HPI: 47.17
Rank: 80