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Mah Laqa Bai

1768 - 1824

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Mah Laqa Bai (7 April 1768 – August 1824), born Chanda Bai, and sometimes referred to as Mah Laqa Chanda, was an Indian 18th century Urdu poet, courtesan (tawaif) and philanthropist based in Hyderabad. In 1824, she became the first female poet to have a diwan (collection of poems) of her work, a compilation of Urdu Ghazals named Gulzar-e-Mahlaqa, published posthumously. She lived in a period when Dakhini (a version of Urdu) was making its transition into the highly Persianized Urdu. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mah Laqa Bai has received more than 120,771 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Mah Laqa Bai is the 6,271st most popular writer, the 884th most popular biography from India and the 119th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 42.24

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.53

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  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mah Laqa Bai ranks 6,271 out of 7,302. Before her are Renata Viganò, Gita Mehta, Athol Fugard, Ingvar Ambjørnsen, George Farquhar, and Howard Jacobson. After her are Róža Domašcyna, Lloyd C. Douglas, Dorothy Wordsworth, Tillie Olsen, Fareed Zakaria, and Ben Okri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1768, Mah Laqa Bai ranks 47. Before her are Friedrich von Adelung, Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein, Marie-Jeanne de Lalande, Edward Donovan, and Astley Cooper. After her are John Crome, Sikandar Jah, and Smith Thompson. Among people deceased in 1824, Mah Laqa Bai ranks 38. Before her are Hans Nielsen Hauge, André Thouin, François Levaillant, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert, Lachlan Macquarie, and Caesar Augustus Rodney. After her are Jonathan Dayton, Jane Taylor, and Charles Pinckney.

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In India

Among people born in India, Mah Laqa Bai ranks 884 out of 1,861. Before her are Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916), Annapurna Devi (1927), Nitin Gadkari (1957), Gita Mehta (1943), Krishan Kant (1927), and Sugata Mitra (1952). After her are Simon Pimenta (1920), Fareed Zakaria (1964), Norman Pritchard (1877), Kenneth Anderson (1891), Bappi Lahiri (1952), and Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar (1919).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Mah Laqa Bai ranks 119. Before her are Bano Qudsia (1928), Ravindra Kelekar (1925), Vikram Seth (1952), Varsha Adalja (1940), Buddhadeb Dasgupta (1944), and Gita Mehta (1943). After her are Fareed Zakaria (1964), Nabaneeta Dev Sen (1938), Kaifi Azmi (1919), Rahat Indori (1950), Rohinton Mistry (1952), and Saroo Brierley (1981).

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