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Aurangzeb

1618 - 1707

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Muhi al-Din Muhammad (c. 1618 – 3 March 1707), commonly known as Aurangzeb (Persian pronunciation: [ʔaw.ɾaŋɡ.ˈzeːb] lit. 'Ornament of the Throne'), was the sixth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1658 until his death in 1707. His regnal name is Alamgir I (Persian pronunciation: [ʔɑː.ˈlam.ˈɡiːɾ] lit. 'Conqueror of the World'), which derived from his title, Abu al-Muzaffar Muhi-ad-Din Muhammad Bahadur Alamgir Aurangzeb Badshah al-Ghazi. Under his emperorship, the Mughal Empire reached its greatest extent with territory spanning nearly the entirety of the Indian subcontinent.Aurangzeb and the Mughals belonged to a branch of the Timurid dynasty. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aurangzeb has received more than 11,150,038 page views. His biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). Aurangzeb is the 843rd most popular politician (up from 848th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from India (down from 31st in 2019) and the 12th most popular Indian Politician.

Aurangzeb is most famous for being a Muslim emperor who ruled India and Pakistan from 1658 to 1707. He was the last of the Mughal emperors.

Memorability Metrics

  • 11M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 80

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Aurangzebs by language

Over the past year Aurangzeb has had the most page views in the with 1,514,173 views, followed by Hindi (229,486), and Bengali (75,789). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Western Punjabi (4,676.92%), Arabic (3,602.06%), and Bashkir (63.64%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Aurangzeb ranks 843 out of 19,576. Before him are Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, Alfonso XII of Spain, Hezekiah, Cassander, Halimah Yacob, and Imad ad-Din Zengi. After him are Shoshenq I, Anastasius I Dicorus, Viktor Orbán, Georges Clemenceau, Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1618, Aurangzeb ranks 1. After him are Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Elisabeth of the Palatinate, Hishikawa Moronobu, Ivan Bohun, François Pierre La Varenne, François Blondel, Peter Lely, Jan Dirksz Both, Jeremiah Horrocks, Juraj Križanić, and Michiel Sweerts. Among people deceased in 1707, Aurangzeb ranks 2. Before him is Dieterich Buxtehude. After him are Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, Ahmad Khani, Jean Mabillon, Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Shitao, Christoph Cellarius, Johann Patkul, Willem van de Velde the Younger, and Johann Christoph Denner.

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In India

Among people born in India, Aurangzeb ranks 32 out of 1,861. Before him are Aryabhata (476), Sariputta (-568), Salman Rushdie (1947), Jahangir (1569), Adi Shankara (788), and Aishwarya Rai (1973). After him are Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888), Salman Khan (1965), Brahmagupta (598), Kabir (1440), Sathya Sai Baba (1926), and Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Aurangzeb ranks 12. Before him are Shivaji (1627), Indira Gandhi (1917), Chandragupta Maurya (-340), Subhas Chandra Bose (1897), Sariputta (-568), and Jahangir (1569). After him are Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888), Rani of Jhansi (1828), Alauddin Khalji (1266), Tipu Sultan (1750), Vallabhbhai Patel (1875), and Harsha (590).

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