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Sri Aurobindo

1872 - 1950

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Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian yogi, maharishi, and Indian nationalist. He also edited the newspaper Bande Mataram. Aurobindo studied for the Indian Civil Service at King's College, in Cambridge, England. After returning to India, he took up various civil service works under the Maharaja of the princely state of Baroda. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sri Aurobindo is the 280th most popular philosopher (down from 278th in 2019), the 96th most popular biography from India (down from 72nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Indian Philosopher.

Sri Aurobindo was a philosopher, poet, and yogi who was most famous for his philosophy of Integral Yoga.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Sri Aurobindo ranks 280 out of 1,267. Before him are Ibn al-Nafis, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Aśvaghoṣa, Andronicus of Rhodes, Ammonius Saccas, and Priscus. After him are Abraham ibn Ezra, Bayazid Bastami, Ramana Maharshi, Bruno Latour, Epimenides, and Hans Jonas.

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Among people born in 1872, Sri Aurobindo ranks 21. Before him are Anton Denikin, Marcel Mauss, Djemal Pasha, Maurice Gamelin, Sergei Diaghilev, and Louis Blériot. After him are Jože Plečnik, Norman Angell, Aubrey Beardsley, Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein, Wilhelm Miklas, and Helena Rubinstein. Among people deceased in 1950, Sri Aurobindo ranks 18. Before him are Heinrich Mann, Marcel Mauss, Karl Renner, George Minot, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Willis Carrier. After him are Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Kurt Weill, Ramana Maharshi, Emil Jannings, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, and Karl Seitz.

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In India

Among people born in India, Sri Aurobindo ranks 96 out of 1,861. Before him are William Makepeace Thackeray (1811), Priyanka Chopra (1982), Augustus De Morgan (1806), Paramahansa Yogananda (1893), Maudgalyayana (-568), and Aśvaghoṣa (80). After him are Meera (1498), N. R. Narayana Murthy (1946), Ramana Maharshi (1879), Mahākāśyapa (-550), Harsha (590), and Madhava of Sangamagrama (1350).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In India

Among philosophers born in India, Sri Aurobindo ranks 13. Before him are Adi Shankara (788), Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895), Ram Mohan Roy (1772), Kabir (1440), Paramahansa Yogananda (1893), and Aśvaghoṣa (80). After him are Ramana Maharshi (1879), Vyasa (-390), Abul A'la Maududi (1903), Ramanuja (1017), Chandrakirti (600), and Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (1703).

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