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Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

1883 - 1966

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Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (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 8,536,584 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is the 433rd most popular philosopher (down from 407th in 2019), the 133rd most popular biography from India (down from 121st in 2019) and the 19th 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 433 out of 1,267. Before him are Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, H. L. A. Hart, Henry Suso, and Abul A'la Maududi. After him are Ronald Dworkin, Antoine Destutt de Tracy, Giles of Rome, Ernest Gellner, Francisco Ferrer, and Emmanuel Mounier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ranks 48. Before him are Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, Marie Laurencin, Joseph Pilates, Gino Severini, Georgios Papanikolaou, and Gottfried Feder. After him are Max Linder, Adolph Joffe, Alexandros Papagos, Ida Rubinstein, Erich Heckel, and José Clemente Orozco. Among people deceased in 1966, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ranks 37. Before him are Chang Myon, Herbert Gille, D. T. Suzuki, Cléo de Mérode, Ludwig Binswanger, and Gino Severini. After him are Alfred Naujocks, Lao She, Charlotte Cooper, Hannes Kolehmainen, Battista Farina, and Siegfried Kracauer.

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In India

Among people born in India, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ranks 133 out of 1,861. Before him are Mata Amritanandamayi (1953), Sai Baba of Shirdi (1835), Lakshmi Mittal (1950), Dayananda Saraswati (1824), Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918), and Abul A'la Maududi (1903). After him are Gangubai Kothewali (1939), Ajatashatru (-500), Bharata Muni (-1000), Anna Mani (1918), Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (1879), and Muhammad bin Tughluq (1290).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In India

Among philosophers born in India, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ranks 19. Before him are Ramana Maharshi (1879), Ram Mohan Roy (1772), Ramanuja (1017), Ahmad Sirhindi (1564), Buddhaghosa (401), and Abul A'la Maududi (1903). After him are Ravidas (1450), Jyotirao Phule (1827), Madhvacharya (1199), Sivananda Saraswati (1887), Shantideva (685), and Narayana Guru (1855).

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