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Mir Jafar

1691 - 1765

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Mir Syed Jafar Ali Khan Bahadur (c. 1691 – 5 February 1765), more commonly known as just Mir Jafar, was a commander-in-chief or military general who reigned as the first dependent Nawab of Bengal of the British East India Company. His reign has been considered by many historians as the start of the expansion of British control of the Indian subcontinent in Indian history and a key step in the eventual British domination of vast areas of pre-partition India. Mir Jafar served as the commander of the Bengali army under Siraj ud-Daulah, but betrayed him during the Battle of Plassey and ascended to the masnad after the British victory in 1757. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mir Jafar has received more than 1,734,683 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Mir Jafar is the 7,424th most popular politician (up from 9,168th in 2019), the 244th most popular biography from India (down from 16th in 2019) and the 80th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mir Jafar ranks 7,424 out of 19,576. Before her are John VIII, Count of Vendôme, Roman of Bulgaria, Simone Boccanegra, Aripert I, Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, and Sati Beg. After her are Yamada Nagamasa, Mstislav of Chernigov, Mindon Min, Washington Luís, Conrad I, Count of Luxembourg, and Li Yu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1691, Mir Jafar ranks 5. Before her are Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Philip Miller, Giovanni Paolo Panini, and Tsarevna Catherine Ivanovna of Russia. After her are Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Francesco Feo, Edward Cave, Princess Dorothea Wilhelmine of Saxe-Zeitz, Wilhelm Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, Alessandro Galilei, and George Lillo. Among people deceased in 1765, Mir Jafar ranks 13. Before her are Giovanni Paolo Panini, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Charles-André van Loo, Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia, Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel, and Prince William, Duke of Cumberland. After her are Edward Young, Johan Agrell, Johann Melchior Molter, Carl Alexander Clerck, Prokop Diviš, and Richard Pococke.

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In India

Among people born in India, Mir Jafar ranks 244 out of 1,861. Before her are Jahanara Begum (1614), Jayaprakash Narayan (1902), Ratan Tata (1937), Meher Baba (1894), Shantanu (null), and Surdas (1478). After her are Liaquat Ali Khan (1895), Anandi Gopal Joshi (1865), Abdul-Qādir Bedil (1642), Tansen (1493), Motilal Nehru (1861), and Jayalalithaa (1948).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Mir Jafar ranks 80. Before her are Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (1887), Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1905), Shah Alam II (1728), Jahandar Shah (1661), Jahanara Begum (1614), and Shantanu (null). After her are Liaquat Ali Khan (1895), Motilal Nehru (1861), Jayalalithaa (1948), Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913), Bal Thackeray (1926), and Sanghamitta (-281).

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