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Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

1883 - 1966

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Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (), Marathi pronunciation: [ʋinaːjək saːʋəɾkəɾ]; 28 May 1883 – 26 February 1966) was an Indian politician, activist and writer. Savarkar developed the Hindu nationalist political ideology of Hindutva while confined at Ratnagiri in 1922. He was a leading figure in the Hindu Mahasabha. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar has received more than 7,251,332 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is the 407th most popular philosopher (up from 450th in 2019), the 122nd most popular biography from India (down from 119th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Indian Philosopher.

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was a Hindu Nationalist who advocated for the independence of India from the British Empire. He is most famous for the slogan "Hindi, Hindu, Hindustan."

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ranks 407 out of 1,081Before him are Francis Hutcheson, Jyotirao Phule, Ágnes Heller, Étienne Cabet, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, and Paul Grice. After him are Linji Yixuan, Ban Zhao, Boetius of Dacia, Alain de Lille, Henri-Frédéric Amiel, and Bernard of Chartres.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ranks 47Before him are Zaifeng, Prince Chun, Douglas Fairbanks, Georgios Papanikolaou, Döme Sztójay, Max Linder, and Gino Severini. After him are Joseph Pilates, Rudolf Weigl, Marie Laurencin, Adolph Joffe, Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia, and Ida Rubinstein. Among people deceased in 1966, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ranks 38Before him are Alexander von Falkenhausen, Alfred Naujocks, Elizabeth Arden, Gino Severini, Charlotte Cooper, and D. T. Suzuki. After him are Hannes Kolehmainen, Cléo de Mérode, Ludwig Binswanger, Frank Lentini, Erwin Piscator, and Lao She.

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In India

Among people born in India, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ranks 122 out of 1,493Before him are Namdev (1270), Jyotirao Phule (1827), James Brooke (1803), Bāṇabhaṭṭa (601), Sushruta (-620), and Bharata Muni (-1000). After him are Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918), Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899), Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936), Buddhaghosa (401), Mangal Pandey (1827), and Vidyapati (1352).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In India

Among philosophers born in India, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ranks 18Before him are Ram Mohan Roy (1772), Paramahansa Yogananda (1893), Ramana Maharshi (1879), Sri Aurobindo (1872), Ramanuja (1017), and Jyotirao Phule (1827). After him are Buddhaghosa (401), Ravidas (1450), Madhvacharya (1199), Abul A'la Maududi (1903), Shantideva (685), and Ahmad Sirhindi (1564).