SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Lal Bahadur Shastri

1904 - 1966

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Lal Bahadur Shastri (pronounced [laːlᵊ bəˈɦaːd̪ʊɾ ˈʂaːst̪ᵊɾiː] ; born Lal Bahadur Srivastava; 2 October 1904 – 11 January 1966) was an Indian politician and statesman who served as the prime minister of India from 1964 to 1966. He previously served as home minister from 1961 to 1963. Shastri ji was born to Sharad Prasad Srivastava and Ramdulari Devi in Mughalsarai (present-day Uttar Pradesh) on 2 October 1904. He studied in East Central Railway Inter college and Harish Chandra High School, which he left to join the non-cooperation movement. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lal Bahadur Shastri is the 163rd most popular social activist (down from 51st in 2019), the 192nd most popular biography from India (down from 51st in 2019) and the 6th most popular Indian Social Activist.

Lal Bahadur Shastri is most famous for being the second Prime Minister of India. He was a leader of the Indian National Congress and is known for his work in the fields of agriculture and education.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Lal Bahadur Shastri ranks 163 out of 840. Before him are Soh Jaipil, Musa al-Sadr, Abimael Guzmán, Hilda Gadea, Amal Clooney, and David Lane. After him are Gangubai Kothewali, Frederick Douglass, Malala Yousafzai, Alexander Pechersky, Rigoberta Menchú, and Leila Khaled.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Lal Bahadur Shastri ranks 55. Before him are Héctor Castro, Clifford D. Simak, Otto Robert Frisch, František Plánička, Prince Ernst of Hohenberg, and Serge Lifar. After him are Luigi Dallapiccola, Moshé Feldenkrais, Peter Lorre, Henri Cartan, Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta, and Ba Jin. Among people deceased in 1966, Lal Bahadur Shastri ranks 50. Before him are Ludwig Binswanger, Elizabeth Arden, Cléo de Mérode, Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Lao She, and Siegfried Kracauer. After him are Erwin Piscator, Jisaburō Ozawa, Evelyn Waugh, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Marguerite Long, and Sadao Araki.

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In India

Among people born in India, Lal Bahadur Shastri ranks 192 out of 1,861. Before him are Choudhry Rahmat Ali (1895), Ajay Devgn (1969), Rajaram I (1670), Pranab Mukherjee (1935), Tansen (1493), and Kareena Kapoor (1980). After him are Gangubai Kothewali (1939), Prithviraj Chauhan (1159), Chandragupta II (400), Mahavatar Babaji (1900), Salmaan Taseer (1944), and Bāṇabhaṭṭa (601).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Lal Bahadur Shastri ranks 6. Before him are Mahatma Gandhi (1869), Syed Ahmad Khan (1817), Gerald Durrell (1925), Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856), and Kasturba Gandhi (1869). After him are Gangubai Kothewali (1939), Vinoba Bhave (1895), Kailash Satyarthi (1954), Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866), Mangal Pandey (1827), and Kittur Chennamma (1778).

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