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Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV

1884 - 1940

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Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV (4 June 1884 – 3 August 1940) was the twenty-fourth Maharaja of Mysore, reigning from 1902 until his death in 1940. Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV is popularly deemed a rajarshi, or 'saintly king', a moniker with which Mahatma Gandhi revered the king in 1925 for his administrative reforms and achievements. He was a philosopher king, seen by Paul Brunton as living the ideal expressed in Plato's Republic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV has received more than 808,262 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV is the 12,631st most popular politician (down from 11,498th in 2019), the 479th most popular biography from India (down from 411th in 2019) and the 152nd most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV ranks 12,631 out of 19,576. Before him are Günther Schwägermann, King Si of Zhou, Edgar Lungu, Raúl Cubas Grau, Heliocles I, and Meral Akşener. After him are Henry of Scotland, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, Giovanni II Cornaro, Primo Nebiolo, Ali Rıza Pasha, and Sándor Wekerle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV ranks 136. Before him are Oliver Kirk, Ludowika Jakobsson, Adriaan van Maanen, Jean Decoux, A. Merritt, and Marie Vassilieff. After him are Ömer Seyfettin, Hermann Boehm, Vadym Meller, Zofia Nałkowska, Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, and Harry Langdon. Among people deceased in 1940, Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV ranks 118. Before him are Fanny Brate, Flora Finch, Prince Aage, Count of Rosenborg, Raymond Smith Dugan, Helmut Wick, and Pierre Weiss. After him are Smedley Butler, Ljubomir Davidović, Charley Chase, Ameen Rihani, Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov, and Pierre Marie.

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In India

Among people born in India, Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV ranks 479 out of 1,861. Before him are Ivan Dias (1936), Madhuri Dixit (1967), Girija Devi (1929), Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (1921), Rajaram I (1670), and Balaji Vishwanath (1662). After him are Mahadev Desai (1892), Muthulakshmi Reddy (1886), Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889), Mamata Banerjee (1955), Somnath Sharma (1923), and Sharad Pawar (1940).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV ranks 152. Before him are Jaswant Singh (1938), Chand Bibi (1550), Amrit Kaur (1889), Harihara I (1336), Rajaram I (1670), and Balaji Vishwanath (1662). After him are Mamata Banerjee (1955), Sharad Pawar (1940), Kumaragupta I (400), Balaji Baji Rao (1720), Surendranath Banerjee (1848), and H. D. Deve Gowda (1933).

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