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Dara Shukoh

1615 - 1659

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Dara Shikoh (20 March 1615 – 30 August 1659), also transliterated as Dara Shukoh, was the eldest son and heir-apparent of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. Dara was designated with the title Padshahzada-i-Buzurg Martaba (lit. 'Prince of High Rank') and was favoured as a successor by his father and his elder sister, Princess Jahanara Begum. He had been given the title of 'Shah-e-Buland Iqbal' by Shah Jahan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dara Shukoh has received more than 615,201 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Dara Shukoh is the 10,400th most popular politician (down from 10,088th in 2019), the 372nd most popular biography from India (down from 346th in 2019) and the 123rd most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Dara Shukoh ranks 10,400 out of 19,576. Before him are Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine, Lucius Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus, Sinan Hasani, Manuel Blanco Encalada, Princess Mathilde of Bavaria, and Magnus II, Duke of Mecklenburg. After him are Rudolf III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg, Count Theodosius, Uroš I, Grand Prince of Serbia, Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and Franz Müntefering.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1615, Dara Shukoh ranks 11. Before him are Philip William, Elector Palatine, Marguerite of Lorraine, Govert Flinck, Madeleine Béjart, Maria Caterina Farnese, and Nicodemus Tessin the Elder. After him are Richard Baxter, Heinrich Bach, and Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg. Among people deceased in 1659, Dara Shukoh ranks 8. Before him are Hyojong of Joseon, Kaya Sultan, Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Duchess Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia, Simon Dach, and Michał Boym. After him are Willem Drost, Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt, Frederick V, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Jan Baptist Weenix, Giovanni Pesaro, and Juan de Palafox y Mendoza.

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In India

Among people born in India, Dara Shukoh ranks 372 out of 1,861. Before him are Sachchidananda Vatsyayan (1911), Rana Sanga (1482), Guru Har Krishan (1656), Girija Prasad Koirala (1924), Udit Narayan (1955), and Meena Kumari (1933). After him are K. Shivaram Karanth (1902), Gupta (240), Baba Amte (1914), M. N. Roy (1887), Tyagaraja (1767), and Bhikaiji Cama (1861).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Dara Shukoh ranks 123. Before him are Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (1864), Ahmad Shah Bahadur (1725), Lahiri Mahasaya (1828), Skandagupta (500), Rana Sanga (1482), and Girija Prasad Koirala (1924). After him are Gupta (240), Rani Padmini (null), Nitish Kumar (1951), Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (1892), Iskander Mirza (1899), and Fatima Jinnah (1893).

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