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Guru Hargobind

1595 - 1644

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Guru Hargobind (Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਹਰਿਗੋਬਿੰਦ, pronunciation: [gʊɾuː ɦəɾᵊgoːbɪn̯d̯ᵊ]l 19 June 1595 – 28 February 1644) was the sixth of ten Gurus of the Sikh religion. He had become Guru at the young age of eleven, after the execution of his father, Guru Arjan, by the Mughal emperor Jahangir. Guru Hargobind introduced the process of militarization to Sikhism, likely as a response to his father's execution and to protect the Sikh community. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guru Hargobind has received more than 1,558,934 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Guru Hargobind is the 9,749th most popular politician (down from 8,929th in 2019), the 344th most popular biography from India (down from 301st in 2019) and the 115th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Guru Hargobind ranks 9,749 out of 19,576. Before him are Commius, Theodoros Pangalos, Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken, Nikolaos Andriakopoulos, Cynewulf of Wessex, and Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden. After him are Hermann, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Toktu of Bulgaria, Christian Louis, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Mireya Moscoso, Nikolay Raevsky, and Abul-Qasim Babur Mirza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1595, Guru Hargobind ranks 15. Before him are Jean Chapelain, Antonio Maria Abbatini, Ludovico Ludovisi, Albert Girard, Pieter de Molijn, and Henri de Montmorency, 4th Duke of Montmorency. After him are Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Jean Desmarets, Joachim Ernest, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön, Heo Mok, and Henry Lawes. Among people deceased in 1644, Guru Hargobind ranks 11. Before him are Cecilia Renata of Austria, Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau, Bernardo Strozzi, Alfonso III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Francisco Pacheco, and Agostino Tassi. After him are Georg Marcgrave, Luis Vélez de Guevara, and Geoffrey Keating.

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In India

Among people born in India, Guru Hargobind ranks 344 out of 1,861. Before him are Vikram Sarabhai (1919), Lalu Prasad Yadav (1948), Wilfred Bion (1897), Jim Corbett (1875), Sanjay Gandhi (1946), and Pulakeshin II (610). After him are Bhavabhuti (null), Dadasaheb Phalke (1870), Lindsay Anderson (1923), Kajol (1974), Vijay (1974), and Mohammad Hidayatullah (1905).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Guru Hargobind ranks 115. Before him are Bahubali (null), Rajnath Singh (1951), Lakshmi Sahgal (1914), Mulayam Singh Yadav (1939), Lalu Prasad Yadav (1948), and Sanjay Gandhi (1946). After him are Mohammad Hidayatullah (1905), Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (1864), Ahmad Shah Bahadur (1725), Lahiri Mahasaya (1828), Skandagupta (500), and Rana Sanga (1482).

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