Swadesh is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:
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Morris Swadesh
Morris Swadesh ( ; January 22, 1909 – July 20, 1967) was an American linguist who specialized in comparative and historical linguistics, and developed his mature career at UNAM in Mexico. Swadesh was born in Massachusetts to Bessarabian Jewi ...
(1909–1967), American linguist
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Swadesh list
A Swadesh list () is a compilation of cultural universal, tentatively universal concepts for the purposes of lexicostatistics. That is, a Swadesh list is a list of forms and concepts which all languages, without exception, have terms for, such as ...
, named after its creator
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Swadesh Bose
Swadesh Ranjan Bose (; 2 January 1928 – 3 December 2009) was a Bengali language movement activist and an economist. For his contributions to the field of economics he was posthumously given the Independence Day Award, Bangladesh's highest state a ...
(1928–2009), Bangladeshi economist and Liberation War organiser
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Swadesh Chakraborty
Swadesh Chakraborty (22 December 1943 – 2 December 2024) was an Indian politician who was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Howrah constituency of West Bengal and was a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist ...
(born 1943), Indian politician
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Swadesh Deepak
Swadesh Deepak (born 1943) is an Indian playwright, novelist and short-story writer. Deepak has been active on the Hindi literary scene since the mid-1960s and is best known for ''Court Martial,'' a 1991 play. Deepak's most recent book is ''Main ...
(born 1942), Indian writer
See also
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Swades
''Swades'' () is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language drama film co-written, directed and produced by Ashutosh Gowariker. The film stars Shah Rukh Khan, alongside Gayatri Joshi, Kishori Ballal, Daya Shankar Pandey, Rajesh Vivek, and Lekh Tandon.
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'', a 2004 Indian Hindi-language film by Ashutosh Gowariker
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Swadeshi
The Swadeshi movement was a self-sufficiency movement that was part of the Indian independence movement and contributed to the development of Indian nationalism. Before the BML Government's decision for the partition of Bengal was made public in ...
, a 20th-century nationalist movement in British ruled India
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Swadeshabhimani (disambiguation) Swadeshabhimani means ''The Patriot'' in Indian languages and may also refer to:
* Swadeshabhimani (newspaper), a newspaper
* Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai, the editor of the newspaper
* Vakkom Moulavi, the publisher of ''Swadeshabhimani''
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