PHILOSOPHER

Pritilata Waddedar

1911 - 1932

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Pritilata Waddedar (5 May 1911 – 24 September 1932) was a Bengali revolutionary nationalist who was influential in the independence movement. After completing her education in Chattogram (formerly Chittagong) and Dhaka (formerly Dacca), she attended Bethune College in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). She graduated in philosophy with distinction and became a school teacher. She is praised as "Bengal's first woman martyr". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pritilata Waddedar is the 1,131st most popular philosopher (up from 1,170th in 2019), the 39th most popular biography from Bangladesh (up from 51st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Bangladeshi Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Pritilata Waddedar ranks 1,131 out of 1,267Before her are Uku Masing, Jaegwon Kim, Polemon of Athens, Kaibara Ekken, Anna Tumarkin, and Adolf Grünbaum. After her are Derek Prince, Allan Bloom, Ecphantus the Pythagorean, Pierre Lévy, Joseph B. Soloveitchik, and Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Pritilata Waddedar ranks 268Before her are Ján Cikker, Nikolai Baibakov, Eduardo González Valiño, René Bougnol, Savino Guglielmetti, and José Muguerza. After her are Paul Zielinski, Roy Eldridge, Zoltán Beke, C. L. Moore, Adam Kozłowiecki, and Armandinho. Among people deceased in 1932, Pritilata Waddedar ranks 113Before her are Hermann Gunkel, Constantin Coandă, Ioannis Chrysafis, Eduard Sievers, Charles Winckler, and Väinö Siikaniemi. After her are Charles Wallace Richmond, Edgard Colle, Frantz Reichel, Kliment Boyadzhiev, Ellen Churchill Semple, and René Bazin.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, Pritilata Waddedar ranks 39 out of 74Before her are Surya Sen (1894), Fakhruddin Ahmed (1940), Zainul Abedin (1914), Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad (1918), Motiur Rahman Nizami (1943), and Kalpana Datta (1913). After her are Mrinal Sen (1923), Ritwik Ghatak (1925), A. K. Fazlul Huq (1873), Suchitra Sen (1931), Humayun Ahmed (1948), and Nurul Amin (1893).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Bangladesh

Among philosophers born in Bangladesh, Pritilata Waddedar ranks 2Before her are Anandamayi Ma (1896).