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Baji Rao II

1775 - 1851

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Baji Rao II (10 January 1775 – 28 January 1851) was the 13th and the last Peshwa of the Maratha Confederacy . He governed from 1795 to 1818. He was installed as a puppet ruler by the Maratha nobles, whose growing power prompted him to flee his capital Poona and sign the Treaty of Bassein (1802) with the British. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Baji Rao II has received more than 1,508,172 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Baji Rao II is the 14,058th most popular politician (down from 9,810th in 2019), the 585th most popular biography from India (down from 337th in 2019) and the 180th most popular Indian Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

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  • 48.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Baji Rao IIS by language

Over the past year Baji Rao II has had the most page views in the with 126,741 views, followed by Hindi (16,842), and Marathi (10,172). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Sanskrit (50.84%), Maithili (29.33%), and Tamil (18.95%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Baji Rao II ranks 14,058 out of 19,576. Before him are Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, Belaid Abdessalam, Kurt Beck, Wojciech Fibak, Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, and Arsames I. After him are Alexander Chervyakov, Johnny Briceño, Alfred Francis Russell, Gustav Neumann, Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster, and Asander.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1775, Baji Rao II ranks 46. Before him are Thomas Girtin, José de Palafox y Melci, 1st Duke of Zaragoza, Walter Savage Landor, Adolf Stieler, Anna Harrison, and Karl Freiherr von Müffling. After him are Pauline Auzou, William Thompson, Francisco Ramón Vicuña, Muthuswami Dikshitar, Carlo Porta, and Rana Bahadur Shah. Among people deceased in 1851, Baji Rao II ranks 43. Before him are Leopold II, Prince of Lippe, Manuel Gómez Pedraza, Esteban Echeverría, Dawud Pasha of Baghdad, Andrés Quintana Roo, and Karl Freiherr von Müffling. After him are Mizuno Tadakuni, Giovanni Berchet, Joel Roberts Poinsett, William Nicol, Dean Mahomed, and Sylvester Graham.

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In India

Among people born in India, Baji Rao II ranks 585 out of 1,861. Before him are Sivaji Ganesan (1928), Launceston Elliot (1874), Fauja Singh (1911), Charu Majumdar (1918), Kajal Aggarwal (1985), and Cerverí de Girona (1259). After him are Sanjay Dutt (1959), Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy (1924), BP Koirala (1914), Shudraka (500), George Fernandes (1930), and Jaipal Singh Munda (1903).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Baji Rao II ranks 180. Before him are Palden Thondup Namgyal (1923), Margaret Abbott (1878), Mohammad Hamid Ansari (1937), Rahul Gandhi (1970), Sushma Swaraj (1952), and Muhammad Azam Shah (1653). After him are BP Koirala (1914), George Fernandes (1930), Jaipal Singh Munda (1903), Gopinath Bordoloi (1890), Purushottam Das Tandon (1882), and Karamchand Gandhi (1822).

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