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Balaji Vishwanath

1662 - 1720

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Balaji Vishwanath Bhat (1662–1720) was the first of a series of hereditary Peshwas hailing from the Bhat family who gained effective control of the Maratha Empire and the Mughal vassals of the Marathas 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Balaji Vishwanath has received more than 1,350,068 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Balaji Vishwanath is the 11,509th most popular politician (up from 11,737th in 2019), the 412th most popular biography from India (up from 426th in 2019) and the 134th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Balaji Vishwanath ranks 11,509 out of 15,577. Before him are Ida of Bernicia, Assef Shawkat, Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau, Leontia, Walter Thurnherr, and Judith of Brittany. After him are Manuel Estrada Cabrera, Lucius Clodius Macer, Morta, Richard Ratsimandrava, José Joaquín de Herrera, and Vakhtang IV of Georgia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1662, Balaji Vishwanath ranks 13. Before him are Maria Aurora von Königsmarck, Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach, William Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Baltacı Mehmet Pasha, Jan Frans van Bloemen, and Augustus William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After him are Sebastiano Mocenigo, Richard Bentley, and Matthew Henry. Among people deceased in 1720, Balaji Vishwanath ranks 10. Before him are Maria Barbara Bach, Edward England, Maria Margaretha Kirch, Abdul-Qādir Bedil, Antoine Coysevox, and Peter Tordenskjold. After him are Anne Dacier and Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway.

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In India

Among people born in India, Balaji Vishwanath ranks 412 out of 1,493. Before him are Altaf Hussain Hali (1837), The Great Khali (1972), Brian Horrocks (1895), Sabu Dastagir (1924), Bhāskara I (600), and Priyanka Chopra (1982). After him are Jaswant Singh (1938), Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV (1884), C. N. Annadurai (1909), Madhubala (1933), Kajol (1974), and Prince Vijaya (-543).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Balaji Vishwanath ranks 134. Before him are Kalyan Singh (1932), Durgabai Deshmukh (1909), Bal Thackeray (1926), Malik Kafur (1250), Man Singh I (1550), and B. D. Jatti (1912). After him are Jaswant Singh (1938), Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV (1884), C. N. Annadurai (1909), Prince Vijaya (-543), Sucheta Kriplani (1908), and M. S. Swaminathan (1925).

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