WRITER

Roshanara Begum

1617 - 1671

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Roshanara Begum (Persian: روشن آرا بیگم, lit. 'Adorned in Light'); 3 September 1617 – 11 September 1671) was a Mughal princess and the third daughter of Emperor Shah Jahan and his wife, Mumtaz Mahal. Roshanara was a brilliant woman and a talented poet. She was a partisan of her younger brother, Aurangzeb, and supported him during the war of succession which took place after Shah Jahan's illness in 1657. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roshanara Begum has received more than 449,312 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Roshanara Begum is the 5,261st most popular writer, the 670th most popular biography from India and the 103rd most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 450k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Roshanara Begum ranks 5,261 out of 7,302. Before her are Jean Clair, Petr Bezruč, André Heller, Nalini Bala Devi, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, and Edward Carpenter. After her are Julia Ward Howe, Tahar Djaout, Władysław Broniewski, Jan Frans Willems, Idea Vilariño, and Anna Świrszczyńska.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1617, Roshanara Begum ranks 15. Before her are Emanuel de Witte, Elias Ashmole, Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony, Yun Hyu, John Michael Wright, and Ralph Cudworth. After her is Richard Lovelace. Among people deceased in 1671, Roshanara Begum ranks 17. Before her are Yerofey Khabarov, Antonio Barberini, Thomas Fairfax, Jan van Bijlert, Yun Seondo, and Joachim Ernest, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön.

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In India

Among people born in India, Roshanara Begum ranks 670 out of 1,861. Before her are Dimple Kapadia (1957), Muthuswami Dikshitar (1775), Krishna Prasad Bhattarai (1924), Basawan (1560), Balasaraswati (1918), and Nalini Bala Devi (1898). After her are Shrilal Shukla (1925), Nirmala Joshi (1934), Zeenat Aman (1951), Asaf-ud-Daula (1748), Anuradha Paudwal (1954), and Joseph Coutts (1945).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Roshanara Begum ranks 103. Before her are Pratibha Ray (1944), Amitav Ghosh (1956), Cornelia Sorabji (1866), Ismat Chughtai (1915), Muthuswami Dikshitar (1775), and Nalini Bala Devi (1898). After her are Shrilal Shukla (1925), Anita Desai (1937), Ravindra Prabhat (1969), Javed Akhtar (1945), Nambi Narayanan (1941), and Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872).

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