POLITICIAN

Duleep Singh

1838 - 1893

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Maharaja Sir Duleep Singh, GCSI (6 September 1838 – 22 October 1893), also spelled Dalip Singh, and later in life nicknamed the "Black Prince of Perthshire", was the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire. He was Maharaja Ranjit Singh's youngest son, the only child of Maharani Jind Kaur. He was placed in power in September 1843, at the age of five, with his mother ruling on his behalf, and after their defeat in the Anglo-Sikh War, under a British Resident. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Duleep Singh has received more than 2,423,073 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Duleep Singh is the 13,093rd most popular politician (up from 13,436th in 2019), the 64th most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 67th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Pakistani Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Duleep Singh ranks 13,093 out of 19,576Before him are Haruo Remeliik, Marcus Vinicius, George Frederick Charles, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Durgabai Deshmukh, Mir Qasim, and Charilaus. After him are Alla Kushnir, Paul von Hintze, Sin Sukju, Qabus, Tlepolemus, and José Santos Zelaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Duleep Singh ranks 83Before him are Jules Méline, Édouard Colonne, Eli Lilly, Toyohara Chikanobu, Keshub Chandra Sen, and Marianne Cope. After him are Paul Mauser, Giovanni Cagliero, Gotō Shōjirō, Marin Drinov, Adam Asnyk, and Gustav Neumann. Among people deceased in 1893, Duleep Singh ranks 63Before him are Adolphe Yvon, Grigory Gagarin, Grigor Parlichev, Aloys Sprenger, Michał Elwiro Andriolli, and Alexander Kazbegi. After him are Samuel Baker, Lucy Stone, Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ, John William Casilear, and John Abbott.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Duleep Singh ranks 64 out of 217Before him are Francis Younghusband (1863), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Farooq Leghari (1940), Manoj Kumar (1937), Aafia Siddiqui (1972), and Gulzar (1934). After him are Malala Yousafzai (1997), Yash Chopra (1932), Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry (1904), Prithviraj Kapoor (1906), Zafarullah Khan Jamali (1944), and Vinod Khanna (1946).

Among POLITICIANS In Pakistan

Among politicians born in Pakistan, Duleep Singh ranks 26Before him are Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915), Raja Dahir (663), Taxiles (-400), I. K. Gujral (1919), Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (1929), and Farooq Leghari (1940). After him are Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry (1904), Zafarullah Khan Jamali (1944), Bahlul Lodi (1406), Yousaf Raza Gillani (1952), Muhammad Mian Soomro (1950), and Muhammad Zafarullah Khan (1893).