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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Baji Rao I

1700 - 1740

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Bajirao I (Bajirao Ballal; Marathi pronunciation: [bad͡ʒiɾaːʋ bəlːaːɭ]; 18 August 1700 – 28 April 1740), born as Visaji, was the 7th Peshwa of the Maratha Confederacy. During his 20-year tenure as a Peshwa, his strategic prowess expanded Maratha influence in crucial regions, he engaged in several military conflicts such as Nizam's Carnatic campaigns (1725–27) and the Maratha invasion of Deccan (1739). In Bundelkhand, he rescued the Bundela ruler Chhatrasal from a Mughal siege, gaining independence for Bundelkhand. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Baji Rao I has received more than 4,453,254 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Baji Rao I is the 880th most popular military personnel (down from 805th in 2019), the 245th most popular biography from India (down from 204th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Indian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Baji Rao I ranks 880 out of 1,468. Before him are Hamazasp Babadzhanian, Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, Rudolf Schmundt, Presian, Max Simon, and Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov. After him are Hermann Breith, Marcellin Marbot, Bruno Loerzer, Mario Terán, Hellmuth Stieff, and Karel Doorman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1700, Baji Rao I ranks 14. Before him are Ewald Georg von Kleist, Gerard van Swieten, Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans, Johann Christoph Gottsched, Jean-Antoine Nollet, and Clemens August of Bavaria. After him are Ashraf Hotak, Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Luigi Vanvitelli, Charles-Joseph Natoire, Teimuraz II of Kakheti, and Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg. Among people deceased in 1740, Baji Rao I ranks 13. Before him are Abbas III, Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Antonio Lotti, Jan Kupecký, and Princess Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst. After him are Mastani, Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Ephraim Chambers, Pietro Ottoboni, and Vincent Lübeck.

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In India

Among people born in India, Baji Rao I ranks 245 out of 1,493. Before him are Parshvanatha (-872), Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897), Zakir Naik (1965), Michael Radford (1946), D. R. Bendre (1896), and Abdul-Qādir Bedil (1642). After him are Nizamuddin Auliya (1238), Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861), Viswanathan Anand (1969), Anna Hazare (1937), Guru Amar Das (1479), and K. Kamaraj (1903).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In India

Among military personnels born in India, Baji Rao I ranks 2. Before him are Kim Philby (1912). After him are Tatya Tope (1814), Rash Behari Bose (1886), Mad Mike Hoare (1919), Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832), Orde Wingate (1903), Bipin Rawat (1958), Andrew Scott Waugh (1810), John Frost (1912), Sam Manekshaw (1914), and John Hunt, Baron Hunt (1910).

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