SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Gangubai Kothewali

1939 - 1977

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Gangubai Harjeevandas (1907 – 8 September 1977), better known as Gangubai Kothewali or Gangubai Kathiawadi, was an Indian social activist, sex worker and madam of a brothel in the Kamathipura area of Mumbai during the 1960s. Gangubai worked for the rights of sex workers and for the well-being of orphans. She gradually ended up operating her own brothel and is known to also have lobbied for the rights of commercial sex workers. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gangubai Kothewali is the 164th most popular social activist (down from 137th in 2019), the 193rd most popular biography from India (down from 134th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Indian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Gangubai Kothewali ranks 164 out of 840. Before her are Musa al-Sadr, Abimael Guzmán, Hilda Gadea, Amal Clooney, David Lane, and Lal Bahadur Shastri. After her are Frederick Douglass, Malala Yousafzai, Alexander Pechersky, Rigoberta Menchú, Leila Khaled, and Meng Huo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Gangubai Kothewali ranks 78. Before her are Milva, Carolina Herrera, Ruud Lubbers, Ricardo Bofill, Amancio Amaro, and Bertrand Blier. After her are Kim Jae-ryong, Richard Serra, Fikret Abdić, Dion DiMucci, Barry Seal, and Étienne Mourrut. Among people deceased in 1977, Gangubai Kothewali ranks 45. Before her are Francis Gary Powers, Gary Gilmore, John Dickson Carr, Abdel Halim Hafez, Alia Al-Hussein, and Shogo Kamo. After her are Naum Gabo, Stephen Boyd, Kamal Jumblatt, Gudrun Ensslin, Sepp Herberger, and Oskar Morgenstern.

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In India

Among people born in India, Gangubai Kothewali ranks 193 out of 1,861. Before her are Ajay Devgn (1969), Rajaram I (1670), Pranab Mukherjee (1935), Tansen (1493), Kareena Kapoor (1980), and Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904). After her are Prithviraj Chauhan (1159), Chandragupta II (400), Mahavatar Babaji (1900), Salmaan Taseer (1944), Bāṇabhaṭṭa (601), and Nirmala Joshi (1934).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Gangubai Kothewali ranks 7. Before her are Mahatma Gandhi (1869), Syed Ahmad Khan (1817), Gerald Durrell (1925), Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856), Kasturba Gandhi (1869), and Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904). After her are Vinoba Bhave (1895), Kailash Satyarthi (1954), Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866), Mangal Pandey (1827), Kittur Chennamma (1778), and Mohammad Ali Jauhar (1878).

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