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Pulakeshin II

610 - 642

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Pulakeshin II (IAST: Pulakeśin r. c. 610–642 CE) popularly known as Immaḍi Pulakeśi, was the greatest Chalukyan Emperor who reigned from Vatapi (present-day Badami in Karnataka, India). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pulakeshin II has received more than 1,017,602 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Pulakeshin II is the 202nd most popular historian (down from 173rd in 2019), the 343rd most popular biography from India (down from 282nd in 2019) and the most popular Indian Historian.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Pulakeshin II ranks 202 out of 561. Before him are Frederick Jackson Turner, Max Weinreich, Abu Mikhnaf, Linda Nochlin, Robert Conquest, and Ibn Abd al-Hakam. After him are Alexander Vasiliev, Philochorus, Karl Otfried Müller, Walter Laqueur, Tony Judt, and Aulus Cremutius Cordus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 610, Pulakeshin II ranks 9. Before him are Abdullah ibn Umar, Pope Donus, Egica, Grimoald, King of the Lombards, Anania Shirakatsi, and Godepert.  Among people deceased in 642, Pulakeshin II ranks 8. Before him are Bilal ibn Rabah, Pope John IV, Tulga, Oswald of Northumbria, Yeongnyu of Goguryeo, and Cynegils. After him are Tulayha, Aiulf I of Benevento, Domnall Brecc, and Eowa of Mercia.

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In India

Among people born in India, Pulakeshin II ranks 343 out of 1,861. Before him are Mulayam Singh Yadav (1939), Vikram Sarabhai (1919), Lalu Prasad Yadav (1948), Wilfred Bion (1897), Jim Corbett (1875), and Sanjay Gandhi (1946). After him are Guru Hargobind (1595), Bhavabhuti (null), Dadasaheb Phalke (1870), Lindsay Anderson (1923), Kajol (1974), and Vijay (1974).

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Among HISTORIANS In India

Among historians born in India, Pulakeshin II ranks 1. After him are ʽAbd al-Qadir Badayuni (1540), R. H. Tawney (1880), Romila Thapar (1931), and Irfan Habib (1931).

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