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Shivaji

1627 - 1680

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Shivaji I (Shivaji Shahaji Bhonsale, Marathi pronunciation: [ʃiˈʋaːdʑiː ˈbʱos(ə)le]; c. 19 February 1630 – 3 April 1680) was an Indian ruler and a member of the Bhonsle dynasty. Shivaji carved out his own independent kingdom from the Sultanate of Bijapur that formed the genesis of the Maratha Confederacy. Over the course of his life, Shivaji engaged in both alliances and hostilities with the Mughal Empire, the Sultanate of Golconda, the Sultanate of Bijapur and the European colonial powers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shivaji has received more than 17,332,077 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Shivaji is the 322nd most popular politician (up from 424th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from India (up from 18th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Indian Politician.

Shivaji is most famous for his role in uniting the Maratha people and fighting against the Mughal Empire.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Shivaji ranks 322 out of 19,576. Before him are Turhan Hatice Sultan, Vyacheslav Molotov, Ivar the Boneless, Crazy Horse, Elizabeth of Russia, and Charles V of France. After him are Paul I of Russia, Abbas the Great, Sejong the Great, Şehzade Bayezid, Stephen I of Hungary, and Joachim Murat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1627, Shivaji ranks 3. Before him are Robert Boyle, and Turhan Hatice Sultan. After him are Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, Aşub Sultan, John Ray, Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Willem van Aelst, Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau, Petro Doroshenko, and Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi. Among people deceased in 1680, Shivaji ranks 2. Before him is Gian Lorenzo Bernini. After him are François de La Rochefoucauld, Athanasius Kircher, Nicolas Fouquet, Raimondo Montecuccoli, Jan Swammerdam, Willem Claesz. Heda, Ferdinand Bol, Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine, Elisabeth of the Palatinate, and Emperor Go-Mizunoo.

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In India

Among people born in India, Shivaji ranks 15 out of 1,861. Before him are Jawaharlal Nehru (1889), B. R. Ambedkar (1891), Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887), Ramakrishna (1836), Vivien Leigh (1913), and Nagarjuna (150). After him are Mahavira (-599), Shah Rukh Khan (1965), Indira Gandhi (1917), Rudyard Kipling (1865), Ānanda (-600), and Chandragupta Maurya (-340).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Shivaji ranks 6. Before him are Narendra Modi (1950), Ashoka (-304), A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931), Jawaharlal Nehru (1889), and B. R. Ambedkar (1891). After him are Indira Gandhi (1917), Chandragupta Maurya (-340), Subhas Chandra Bose (1897), Sariputta (-568), Jahangir (1569), and Aurangzeb (1618).

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