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Shah Alam II

1728 - 1806

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Shah Alam II ( Persian pronunciation: [ʃɑːh ʔɑː.ˈlam]; 25 June 1728 – 19 November 1806), also known by his birth name Ali Gohar, or Ali Gauhar, was the seventeenth Mughal emperor and the son of Alamgir II. Shah Alam II became the emperor of a crumbling Mughal Empire. His power was so depleted during his reign that it led to a saying in the Persian language, Sultanat-e-Shah Alam, Az Dilli ta Palam, meaning, 'The empire of Shah Alam is from Delhi to Palam', Palam being a suburb of Delhi.Shah Alam faced many invasions, mainly by the Emir of Afghanistan, Ahmed Shah Abdali, which led to the Third Battle of Panipat (1761) between the Maratha Confederacy, and the Afghan Empire led by Abdali. In 1760, the invading forces of Abdali were driven away by the Marathas, led by Sadashivrao Bhau, who deposed Shah Jahan III, the puppet Mughal emperor of Imad-ul-Mulk, and installed Shah Alam II as the rightful emperor (1760 – 1772).Shah Alam II was considered the only and rightful emperor, but he was unable to return to Delhi until 1772, under the protection of the Maratha general Mahadaji Shinde. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shah Alam II has received more than 2,078,995 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Shah Alam II is the 7,209th most popular politician (down from 6,606th in 2019), the 233rd most popular biography from India (down from 207th in 2019) and the 76th most popular Indian Politician.

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  • 56.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Shah Alam II has had the most page views in the with 281,202 views, followed by Hindi (23,587), and Persian (9,683). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Uzbek (304.55%), Kurdish (Sorani) (103.23%), and (48.62%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Shah Alam II ranks 7,209 out of 19,576. Before him are Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal, Francisco de Paula Santander, Pharnaces I of Pontus, Jaromír, Duke of Bohemia, Jerome Powell, and Anna Dalassene. After him are Stephen III, Duke of Bavaria, Walter Buch, Dragoș, Voivode of Moldavia, Barsbay, Yuriy Yekhanurov, and Theodore II Palaiologos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1728, Shah Alam II ranks 17. Before him are Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Antoine Baumé, John Hunter, Robert Adam, Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, and Johann Adam Hiller. After him are Kirill Razumovski, Matthew Boulton, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Wallis, Carlo Allioni, and Johann Andreas Stein. Among people deceased in 1806, Shah Alam II ranks 25. Before him are Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Michel Adanson, Mungo Park, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, and Pavel Tsitsianov. After him are Vicente Martín y Soler, Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony, George Stubbs, Federico Gravina, Fra Diavolo, and Horatio Gates.

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In India

Among people born in India, Shah Alam II ranks 233 out of 1,861. Before him are Homi J. Bhabha (1909), Mir Taqi Mir (1723), Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1905), Raja Ravi Varma (1848), Dignāga (480), and Dashrath Manjhi (1934). After him are Jahandar Shah (1661), Aamir Khan (1965), C. Rajagopalachari (1878), Kadambini Ganguly (1861), Jahanara Begum (1614), and Jayaprakash Narayan (1902).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Shah Alam II ranks 76. Before him are Nizamuddin Auliya (1238), Rajaraja I (947), Amrapali (-450), Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana (1556), Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (1887), and Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1905). After him are Jahandar Shah (1661), Jahanara Begum (1614), Shantanu (null), Mir Jafar (1691), Liaquat Ali Khan (1895), and Motilal Nehru (1861).

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