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Choudhry Rahmat Ali

1895 - 1951

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Choudhry Rahmat Ali (16 November 1897 – 3 February 1951) was a Muslim nationalist activist who is credited with coining the name "Pakistan" for a separate Muslim homeland in British India and is sometimes regarded as the originator of the Pakistan Movement. Born in Balachaur, Punjab, Rahmat Ali got his education in Lahore. His seminal contribution was when he was a law student at the University of Cambridge in 1933, in the form of a pamphlet "Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?", also known as the "Pakistan Declaration". The pamphlet was addressed to the British and Indian delegates to the Third Round Table Conference in London. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Choudhry Rahmat Ali is the 4,819th most popular politician (up from 15,284th in 2019), the 186th most popular biography from India (up from 687th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Choudhry Rahmat Ali ranks 4,819 out of 19,576. Before him are Carl Bildt, Emperor Hui of Jin, Zhao Tuo, Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Yasovarman I, and Al-Afdal Shahanshah. After him are Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, Otto Georg Thierack, Achila II, Margot Honecker, Otto, Duke of Austria, and Ziusudra.

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Among people born in 1895, Choudhry Rahmat Ali ranks 77. Before him are Friedrich Jeckeln, Robert Graves, Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois, Marcel Pagnol, Lin Yutang, and Ferdinand Čatloš. After him are B. H. Liddell Hart, Jean Giono, Gregorio Pietro Agagianian, Walter Dornberger, Vinoba Bhave, and Jack Dempsey. Among people deceased in 1951, Choudhry Rahmat Ali ranks 34. Before him are Kim Chaek, Soh Jaipil, Ivanoe Bonomi, Élie Cartan, William Randolph Hearst, and Princess Milica of Montenegro. After him are Robert J. Flaherty, Adam Stefan Sapieha, Andrei Platonov, Willem Mengelberg, Empress Teimei, and Princess Hélène of Orléans.

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In India

Among people born in India, Choudhry Rahmat Ali ranks 186 out of 1,861. Before him are Nana Sahib (1824), Shantideva (685), I. I. Chundrigar (1897), Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899), Mahesh Bhatt (1948), and Ahmed Deedat (1918). After him are Ajay Devgn (1969), Rajaram I (1670), Pranab Mukherjee (1935), Tansen (1493), Kareena Kapoor (1980), and Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Choudhry Rahmat Ali ranks 63. Before him are Bindusara (-320), Vikramaditya (-102), Jayalalithaa (1948), Mahboob Ali Khan (1866), Nana Sahib (1824), and I. I. Chundrigar (1897). After him are Rajaram I (1670), Pranab Mukherjee (1935), Prithviraj Chauhan (1159), Chandragupta II (400), Salmaan Taseer (1944), and Vishvamitra (-2000).

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