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Ahilyabai Holkar

1725 - 1795

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Ahilyabai Holkar (Marathi pronunciation: [əɦɪljɑbaɪ]; 31 May 1725 – 13 August 1795), also spelled Ahalya Bai, was the Rajamata and later the ruling queen of Indore within the Maratha Confederacy. She established Maheshwar (in Madhya Pradesh) as the seat of the Holkar Dynasty. A beloved figure of Indian history, she is renowned for good governance, social welfare, and humanitarian work along with religious, educational, and cultural advancements. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahilyabai Holkar has received more than 4,035,784 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Ahilyabai Holkar is the 5,513th most popular politician (up from 6,654th in 2019), the 184th most popular biography from India (up from 209th in 2019) and the 58th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ahilyabai Holkar ranks 5,513 out of 19,576. Before her are Emperor Go-Sanjō, Alexander I of Moldavia, Liu Xiang, Konstantin Tih, Arsaces II of Parthia, and Stephen II, Duke of Bavaria. After her are Recceswinth, Enomoto Takeaki, Aristobulus IV, Sinatruces of Parthia, Omurtag of Bulgaria, and Machaon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1725, Ahilyabai Holkar ranks 10. Before her are Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, Robert Clive, Suzuki Harunobu, Ludovico Manin, and Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre. After her are Henry Benedict Stuart, Pyotr Rumyantsev, John Newton, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller, and George Mason. Among people deceased in 1795, Ahilyabai Holkar ranks 9. Before her are Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Sayat-Nova, François-André Danican Philidor, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, Georg Benda, and Carl Michael Bellman. After her are Josiah Wedgwood, Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken, Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria, James Boswell, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, and Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ahilyabai Holkar ranks 184 out of 1,861. Before her are Mahadevi Varma (1907), Dnyaneshwar (1275), S. R. Ranganathan (1892), Dharmendra (1935), Guru Arjan (1563), and Jayadeva (1170). After her are Kamala Sohonie (1912), Anthony de Mello (1931), Narayana Guru (1855), Kishore Kumar (1929), George Alencherry (1945), and A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Ahilyabai Holkar ranks 58. Before her are Birsa Munda (1875), Mamnoon Hussain (1940), Lala Lajpat Rai (1865), Abdul Karim (1863), James Brooke (1803), and Khaleda Zia (1945). After her are M. Visvesvaraya (1861), Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621), Pushyamitra Shunga (-300), Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924), Feroze Gandhi (1912), and Morarji Desai (1896).

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