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Mir Taqi Mir

1723 - 1810

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Mir Muhammad Taqi (February 1723 – 20 September 1810), known as Mir Taqi Mir (also spelled Meer Taqi Meer), was an Urdu poet of the 18th century Mughal India and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language itself. He was one of the principal poets of the Delhi School of the Urdu ghazal and is often remembered as one of the best poets of the Urdu language. His pen name (takhallus) was Mir. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mir Taqi Mir has received more than 842,838 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Mir Taqi Mir is the 1,807th most popular writer (up from 2,283rd in 2019), the 228th most popular biography from India (up from 268th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mir Taqi Mir ranks 1,807 out of 7,302. Before him are Elvira Madigan, Albert Gleizes, Sanai, Bartolomeo Platina, Alejandra Pizarnik, and Philemon. After him are Alberto Manguel, Petros Markaris, Alfredo M. Bonanno, Theophylact of Ohrid, Martin of Opava, and Josep Pla.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1723, Mir Taqi Mir ranks 15. Before him are Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Johann Bernhard Basedow, Jean-François Marmontel, Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, and Nicole-Reine Lepaute. After him are Tobias Mayer, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Princess Mary of Great Britain, Antoine Louis, Pehr Osbeck, and William Blackstone. Among people deceased in 1810, Mir Taqi Mir ranks 13. Before him are Johann Wilhelm Ritter, Philipp Otto Runge, Andreas Hofer, Chevalier d'Éon, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, and Andrianampoinimerina. After him are Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, Charles August, Crown Prince of Sweden, Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom, Jacques-François Menou, Alejandro Malaspina, and József Alvinczi.

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In India

Among people born in India, Mir Taqi Mir ranks 228 out of 1,861. Before him are Nizamuddin Auliya (1238), Rajaraja I (947), Amrapali (-450), Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana (1556), Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (1887), and Homi J. Bhabha (1909). After him are Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1905), Raja Ravi Varma (1848), Dignāga (480), Dashrath Manjhi (1934), Shah Alam II (1728), and Jahandar Shah (1661).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Mir Taqi Mir ranks 39. Before him are Andal (800), Kuvempu (1904), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942), Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907), Anna Leonowens (1831), and Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876). After him are Surdas (1478), Abdul-Qādir Bedil (1642), D. R. Bendre (1896), Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908), Shakuntala Devi (1929), and Rahul Sankrityayan (1893).

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