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Balaji Vishwanath

1662 - 1720

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Balaji Vishwanath Bhat (1 January 1662 – 12 April 1720) was the first of a series of hereditary Peshwas hailing from the Bhat family who gained effective control of the Maratha Confederacy and other Mughal vassals during the early 18th century. Balaji Vishwanath assisted a young Maratha king Shahu to consolidate his grip on a kingdom that had been racked by civil war and persistently intruded on by the Mughals under Aurangzeb. He was called the Second Founder of the Maratha State. He secured a grant from the Mughal court that confirmed Shahu as the legitimate Mughal vassal, at the expense of his rival Sambhaji II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Balaji Vishwanath has received more than 1,399,054 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Balaji Vishwanath is the 12,623rd most popular politician (down from 11,475th in 2019), the 478th most popular biography from India (down from 409th in 2019) and the 151st most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Balaji Vishwanath ranks 12,623 out of 19,576. Before him are Ceol of Wessex, Giovanni II Participazio, Henry Paulson, Veríssimo Correia Seabra, Peer Steinbrück, and Karl Staaff. After him are Walter Sisulu, Günther Schwägermann, King Si of Zhou, Edgar Lungu, Raúl Cubas Grau, and Heliocles I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1662, Balaji Vishwanath ranks 12. Before him are Maria Aurora von Königsmarck, Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach, William Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, Baltacı Mehmet Pasha, and Jan Frans van Bloemen. After him are Sebastiano Mocenigo, Augustus William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Matthew Henry, and Richard Bentley. Among people deceased in 1720, Balaji Vishwanath ranks 12. Before him are Maria Margaretha Kirch, Abdul-Qādir Bedil, Antoine Coysevox, Anne Dacier, Peter Tordenskjold, and Giovanni Maria Lancisi. After him are Nicolas de Fer, and Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway.

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In India

Among people born in India, Balaji Vishwanath ranks 478 out of 1,861. Before him are Faizi (1547), Ivan Dias (1936), Madhuri Dixit (1967), Girija Devi (1929), Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (1921), and Rajaram I (1670). After him are Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV (1884), Mahadev Desai (1892), Muthulakshmi Reddy (1886), Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889), Mamata Banerjee (1955), and Somnath Sharma (1923).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Balaji Vishwanath ranks 151. Before him are Fatima Sheikh (1831), Jaswant Singh (1938), Chand Bibi (1550), Amrit Kaur (1889), Harihara I (1336), and Rajaram I (1670). After him are Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV (1884), Mamata Banerjee (1955), Sharad Pawar (1940), Kumaragupta I (400), Balaji Baji Rao (1720), and Surendranath Banerjee (1848).

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