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Dayananda Saraswati

1824 - 1883

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Dayanand Saraswati () born Mool Shankar Tiwari (12 February 1824 – 30 October 1883), was a Hindu philosopher, social leader and founder of the Arya Samaj, a reform movement of Hinduism. His book Satyarth Prakash has remained one of the influential texts on the philosophy of the Vedas and clarifications of various ideas and duties of human beings. He was the first to give the call for Swaraj as "India for Indians" in 1876, a call later taken up by Lokmanya Tilak. Denouncing the idolatry and ritualistic worship, he worked towards reviving Vedic ideologies. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dayananda Saraswati is the 726th most popular religious figure (up from 872nd in 2019), the 108th most popular biography from India (up from 130th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Dayananda Saraswati ranks 726 out of 3,187. Before him are Ludmila of Bohemia, Theodore Edgar McCarrick, Zayd ibn Ali, Pelagia, Nathan Söderblom, and Silas. After him are Muhammad Ahmad, Demetrios I of Constantinople, Eulalia of Mérida, John Cassian, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, and Angelo Scola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Dayananda Saraswati ranks 12. Before him are Stonewall Jackson, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Maria Alexandrovna, Eugène Boudin, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, and Paul Broca. After him are Pierre Janssen, Carl Reinecke, Wilkie Collins, Marie Duplessis, William Huggins, and Karl-Maria Kertbeny. Among people deceased in 1883, Dayananda Saraswati ranks 8. Before him are Richard Wagner, Édouard Manet, Ivan Turgenev, Gustave Doré, Emir Abdelkader, and Henri, Count of Chambord. After him are Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Midhat Pasha, Charles II, Duke of Parma, Joseph Plateau, Eva Gonzalès, and Princess Marianne of the Netherlands.

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In India

Among people born in India, Dayananda Saraswati ranks 108 out of 1,861. Before him are Madhava of Sangamagrama (1350), Premchand (1880), Janaki Ammal (1897), Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924), Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I (1671), and Satyajit Ray (1921). After him are C. R. Rao (1920), Rajiv Gandhi (1944), Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486), Vyasa (-390), Ram Nath Kovind (1945), and Pervez Musharraf (1943).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Dayananda Saraswati ranks 8. Before him are Ānanda (-600), A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896), Sathya Sai Baba (1926), Guru Gobind Singh (1666), Maudgalyayana (-568), and Mahākāśyapa (-550). After him are Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486), Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri (1855), Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835), Radha (null), Mahinda (-285), and Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889).

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