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WRITER

Muthuswami Dikshitar

1775 - 1835

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Muthuswami Dikshitar (Mudduswamy Dikshitar) (IAST: muttusvāmi dīkṣitar, 24 March 1776 – 21 October 1835), mononymously Dikshitar, was a South Indian poet, singer and veena player, and a composer of Indian classical music, who is considered one of the musical trinity of Carnatic music. Muthuswami Dikshitar was born on 24 March 1775 in Tiruvarur near Thanjavur, in what is now the state of Tamil Nadu in India, to a family that is traditionally traced back to Virinichipuram in the northern boundaries of the state.His compositions, of which around 500 are known and are noted for their elaborate, poetic descriptions of Hindu gods / temples and for capturing the essence of the raga forms through the vainika (veena) style that emphasises gamakas. They are in a slower speed (chowka kala). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Muthuswami Dikshitar has received more than 513,367 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Muthuswami Dikshitar is the 4,806th most popular writer (up from 5,029th in 2019), the 556th most popular biography from India (up from 629th in 2019) and the 87th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Muthuswami Dikshitar ranks 4,806 out of 5,755Before him are Thea Beckman, Raghunath Murmu, Walter M. Miller Jr., William Harrison Ainsworth, Petr Bezruč, and Jan de Hartog. After him are Paul van Ostaijen, Jacob van Maerlant, Louise Penny, José Mármol, Charles Williams, and Archibald MacLeish.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1775, Muthuswami Dikshitar ranks 44Before him are Adolf Stieler, Thomas Girtin, Bhimsen Thapa, William Thompson, Walter Savage Landor, and Anna Harrison. After him are Carlo Porta, Francisco Ramón Vicuña, Laura Secord, Tenskwatawa, Rana Bahadur Shah, and James Barbour. Among people deceased in 1835, Muthuswami Dikshitar ranks 26Before him are Princess Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Leopoldo Nobili, Franz von Paula Schrank, Rain-in-the-Face, Ivan Martos, and Alexander McDonnell. After him are Thomas Hardwicke, Wenzel Müller, James Hogg, William Cobbett, and Gilbert Thomas Burnett.

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In India

Among people born in India, Muthuswami Dikshitar ranks 556 out of 1,493Before him are Launceston Elliot (1874), Shrilal Shukla (1925), Devika Rani (1908), Asaf-ud-Daula (1748), Raghunath Murmu (1905), and Vijay Mallya (1955). After him are K. B. Hedgewar (1889), Arthur E. Kennelly (1861), Purushottam Das Tandon (1882), Girija Devi (1929), Jeetendra (1942), and Tim Severin (1940).

Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Muthuswami Dikshitar ranks 87Before him are Balamani Amma (1909), Qurratulain Hyder (1927), Mamoni Raisom Goswami (1942), Hansa Jivraj Mehta (1897), Shrilal Shukla (1925), and Raghunath Murmu (1905). After him are Ravindra Kelekar (1925), Cornelia Sorabji (1866), Amitav Ghosh (1956), Anita Desai (1937), Ismat Chughtai (1915), and Gurdial Singh (1933).