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Nana Sahib

1824 - 1859

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Nana Saheb Peshwa II (19 May 1824 – after 1857), born Dhondu Pant, was an Indian aristocrat and fighter who led the Siege of Cawnpore (Kanpur) during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 against the East India Company. As the adopted son of the exiled Maratha Peshwa, Baji Rao II, Nana Saheb believed he was entitled to a pension from the Company. However, after being denied recognition under Lord Dalhousie's doctrine of lapse, he initiated a rebellion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nana Sahib has received more than 1,577,463 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Nana Sahib is the 8,697th most popular politician (down from 6,051st in 2019), the 299th most popular biography from India (down from 189th in 2019) and the 101st most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Nana Sahib ranks 8,697 out of 19,576. Before him are Isabella of Valois, Duchess of Bourbon, Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland, Franz von Sickingen, Louis, Duke of Montpensier, Porfirio Lobo Sosa, and Rawhi Fattouh. After him are Konstantin Jireček, Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Sa'dun Hammadi, Cloelia, Ziyad al-Nakhalah, and Elias Hrawi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Nana Sahib ranks 37. Before him are Peter Cornelius, Louis II, Grand Duke of Baden, Maria Beatrix of Austria-Este, George MacDonald, Count Karl Sigmund von Hohenwart, and Gustave Boulanger. After him are Adolphe Monticelli, Avram Iancu, Pierre-Émile Martin, Levi P. Morton, Alexander William Williamson, and Mikhail Loris-Melikov. Among people deceased in 1859, Nana Sahib ranks 32. Before him are Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi, Louis Poinsot, Robert Stephenson, Karl Baedeker, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, and Zygmunt Krasiński. After him are Sergey Aksakov, Tatya Tope, Walter Hunt, Princess Anna of Saxony, William Cranch Bond, and Horace Mann.

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In India

Among people born in India, Nana Sahib ranks 299 out of 1,861. Before him are M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916), Jaggi Vasudev (1957), Mir Osman Ali Khan (1886), Sarada Devi (1853), M. S. Swaminathan (1925), and Inayat Khan (1882). After him are Michael Radford (1946), Harilal Gandhi (1888), M. Karunanidhi (1924), Savitri (1936), Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (1952), and Asha Bhosle (1933).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Nana Sahib ranks 101. Before him are Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910), P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921), Alamgir II (1699), Hyder Ali (1720), Mir Osman Ali Khan (1886), and M. S. Swaminathan (1925). After him are K. Kamaraj (1903), Zail Singh (1916), Chandra Shekhar (1927), Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861), Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921), and Hussain Muhammad Ershad (1930).

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