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Gayatri Devi

1919 - 2009

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Gayatri Devi (born Princess Gayatri Devi of Cooch Behar; 23 May 1919 − 29 July 2009) was the third Maharani consort of Jaipur from 1940 to 1949 through her marriage to Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II. Following her husband's signature for the Jaipur State to become part of the Union of India and her step-son's assumption of the title in 1970, she was known as Maharani Gayatri Devi, Rajmata of Jaipur.She was born in the Hindu royal family of Cooch Behar. Her father was Maharaja Jitendra Narayan of Cooch Behar in West Bengal, and her mother was Maratha Princess, Indira Raje of Baroda, the only daughter of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III, and she was sister to Jagaddipendra Narayan, informally known as 'Bhaiya', who became the Maharajah of Cooch Behar.Following India's independence and the abolition of the princely states, she became a successful politician in the Swatantra Party. Gayatri was also celebrated for her beauty and became something of a fashion icon in her adulthood. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gayatri Devi has received more than 2,724,861 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Gayatri Devi is the 13,210th most popular politician (up from 13,406th in 2019), the 3,280th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,035th in 2019) and the 453rd most popular British Politician.

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Among politicians, Gayatri Devi ranks 13,210 out of 15,577Before her are Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman, Paek Nam-sun, Andrej Bajuk, Al Smith, Jacob Hübner, and Alexander II of Epirus. After her are Gottlieb von Jagow, Ankhesenpepi I, Enlil-nasir I, Manuel de la Peña y Peña, Duško Marković, and Chang Taek-sang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Gayatri Devi ranks 220Before her are Nehemiah Persoff, Helen Walton, Gottfried Dienst, Kim Ki-young, Nina Dumbadze, and Margot Hielscher. After her are Milan Horvat, Axel von dem Bussche, Eugenia Charles, Jon Pertwee, Lance Macklin, and Mohammad Yunus Khalis. Among people deceased in 2009, Gayatri Devi ranks 215Before her are José Torres, Barry Flanagan, Koko Taylor, Kamala Surayya, Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García, and José Luis López Vázquez. After her are Torsten Lindberg, Marilyn French, Mary Travers, Gangubai Hangal, Ivan Gubijan, and Anselmo Duarte.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gayatri Devi ranks 3,280 out of 7,765Before her are Mike Spence (1936), Catherine Bell (1968), Joan Aiken (1924), Rhona Mitra (1976), Dorothy Garrod (1892), and Dave Davies (1947). After her are Brian Ferneyhough (1943), Michelle Dockery (1981), John Gardner Wilkinson (1797), A. E. Housman (1859), Tony Kaye (1945), and Richard Hoggart (1918).

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