POLITICIAN

Shah Shujah Durrani

1785 - 1842

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Shah Shujah Durrani (Pashto/Persian: شاه شجاع درانی ; November 1785 – 5 April 1842) was ruler of the Durrani Empire from 1803 to 1809. He then ruled from 1839 until his death in 1842. Son of Timur Shah Durrani, Shujah was of the Sadduzai line of the Abdali group of ethnic Pashtuns. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shah Shujah Durrani has received more than 330,565 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Shah Shujah Durrani is the 12,324th most popular politician (down from 11,100th in 2019), the 94th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 85th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular Afghan Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Shah Shujah Durrani ranks 12,324 out of 19,576. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo, Ruth Fischer, Andrei Zhelyabov, Carlos María de Alvear, Hamadi Jebali, and Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus. After him are Marina Silva, Ants Antson, Adolf Ogi, Kay Ivey, Ashur-nadin-ahhe II, and Khin Nyunt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Shah Shujah Durrani ranks 39. Before him are Vicente López y Planes, José Miguel Carrera, Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau, Agustín Gamarra, Lady Caroline Lamb, and Archduke Karl of Austria-Este. After him are Anna Sundström, Francisco Antonio Pinto, August Böckh, Martín Miguel de Güemes, János Scitovszky, and Abel de Pujol. Among people deceased in 1842, Shah Shujah Durrani ranks 29. Before him are Pierre Baillot, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo, Robert Smith, Nodira, and Thomas Arnold. After him are Wilhelm Gesenius, Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Leona Vicario, Aleksey Koltsov, Henry Shrapnel, and James Ivory.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Shah Shujah Durrani ranks 94 out of 177. Before him are Abdul Ahad Mohmand (1959), Ali Hujwiri (1009), Wazir Akbar Khan (1816), Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad (1139), Farrukhi Sistani (980), and Mahmud Tarzi (1865). After him are Amrullah Saleh (1972), Heliocles I (-200), Kamran Mirza (1512), Zalmay Khalilzad (1951), Ayub Khan (1857), and Kader Khan (1937).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Shah Shujah Durrani ranks 62. Before him are Mohammad Yaqub Khan (1849), Demetrius I of Bactria (-300), Abdul Qadir (1944), Wazir Akbar Khan (1816), Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad (1139), and Mahmud Tarzi (1865). After him are Amrullah Saleh (1972), Heliocles I (-200), Kamran Mirza (1512), Zalmay Khalilzad (1951), Ayub Khan (1857), and Amr ibn al-Layth (null).

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