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Gulbadan Begum

1523 - 1603

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Gulbadan Begum (c. 1523 – 7 February 1603) was a Mughal princess and the daughter of Emperor Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire. She is best known as the author of Humayun-Nama, the account of the life of her half-brother and Babar's successor, Emperor Humayun, which she wrote on the request of her nephew and Humayun's son, Emperor Akbar. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gulbadan Begum has received more than 458,647 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Gulbadan Begum is the 2,739th most popular writer (up from 3,273rd in 2019), the 80th most popular biography from Afghanistan (up from 84th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Afghan Writer.

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  • 460k

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  • 53.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gulbadan Begum ranks 2,739 out of 7,302. Before her are Sebastian Franck, Itzhak Katzenelson, Takuboku Ishikawa, Mina Witkojc, Stephenie Meyer, and Albert Robida. After her are Ahmad Javad, Lucius Aelius Stilo Praeconinus, Pierre Benoit, Shūji Terayama, Lu Ji, and Borislav Pekić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1523, Gulbadan Begum ranks 10. Before her are Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry, Blaise de Vigenère, Charles de Bourbon, Marco Antonio Bragadin, Stradanus, and Gaspara Stampa. After her are Catherine Carey, Pieter Pourbus, and Jan Blahoslav. Among people deceased in 1603, Gulbadan Begum ranks 17. Before her are Pierre Charron, George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Irina Godunova, Krzysztof "Piorun" Radziwiłł, Ostilio Ricci, and Maerten de Vos. After her are Yemişçi Hasan Pasha, Grace O'Malley, Philippe de Monte, and Łukasz Górnicki.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Gulbadan Begum ranks 80 out of 177. Before her are Mohammad Afzal Khan (1811), Diodotus I (-285), Humaira Begum (1918), Mawdud of Ghazni (1012), Al-Sijzi (945), and Abul-Qasim Babur Mirza (1422). After her are Abdul Ali Mazari (1946), Unsuri (980), Mohammad Yaqub Khan (1849), Demetrius I of Bactria (-300), Ibrahim al-Nazzam (760), and Afghan Girl (1972).

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Among WRITERS In Afghanistan

Among writers born in Afghanistan, Gulbadan Begum ranks 6. Before her are Rumi (1207), Ali-Shir Nava'i (1441), Khaled Hosseini (1965), Sanai (1080), and Rabia Balkhi (1000). After her are Unsuri (980), Farrukhi Sistani (980), Atiq Rahimi (1962), Nadia Anjuman (1981), Nadia Ghulam (1985), and Niloofar Rahmani (1992).

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