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Stan Swamy

1937 - 2021

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Stanislaus Lourduswamy, SJ (26 April 1937 – 5 July 2021), popularly known as Stan Swamy, was an Indian Catholic Jesuit priest, and a tribal rights activist for several decades. Swamy was the oldest person to be accused of terrorism in India. On 8 October 2020, Swamy was arrested and charged by the National Investigation Agency under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, for his alleged role in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence and links to the Communist Party of India (Maoist). Swamy was suffering from Parkinson's disease and had requested bail on medical grounds, which was rejected multiple times. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stan Swamy is the 578th most popular social activist (up from 698th in 2019), the 801st most popular biography from India (up from 1,081st in 2019) and the 45th most popular Indian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Stan Swamy ranks 578 out of 840. Before him are Walter Reuther, Lizzie Velásquez, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane, Irene Fernandez, and Thomas Clarkson. After him are Emily Hobhouse, Elvia Carrillo Puerto, Megumi Yokota, Ella Baker, Eoin O'Duffy, and Har Dayal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Stan Swamy ranks 468. Before him are Ramón Abeledo, Georg Thoma, J. Bernlef, Heinz Hornig, Tony Maggs, and Roland Burris. After him are Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, Jerry Weintraub, Alv Gjestvang, Svante Thuresson, Alberto Sainz, and Archibald MacKinnon. Among people deceased in 2021, Stan Swamy ranks 534. Before him are Jiří Feureisl, Antal Kiss, Guillermo Sepúlveda, Jack Angel, Theodore Katsanevas, and Naohiro Ikeda. After him are Curtis Fuller, Svante Thuresson, Viktor Putyatin, Yoo Sang-chul, Jonathan Penrose, and Dani Shmulevich-Rom.

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In India

Among people born in India, Stan Swamy ranks 801 out of 1,861. Before him are Jennifer Winget (1985), Surendranath Banerjee (1848), Ismail Merchant (1936), Spike Milligan (1918), Danny Denzongpa (1948), and Gopal Swarup Pathak (1896). After him are Preity Zinta (1975), Verghese Kurien (1921), Asha Parekh (1942), Udit Narayan (1955), Ali Akbar Khan (1922), and Har Dayal (1884).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Stan Swamy ranks 45. Before him are Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903), Charu Majumdar (1918), Shivakumara Swami (1907), Muthulakshmi Reddy (1886), Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (1947), and Manilal Gandhi (1892). After him are Har Dayal (1884), Madan Lal Dhingra (1883), Veerappan (1952), Neerja Bhanot (1963), Usha Mehta (1920), and Sumaira Abdulali (1961).

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