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Sikandar Lodi

1450 - 1517

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Sikandar Khan Lodi (Persian: سکندر لودی; 17 July 1458 – 21 November 1517), born Nizam Khan (Persian: نظام خان), was Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate between 1489 and 1517. He became ruler of the Lodi dynasty after the death of his father Bahlul Khan Lodi in July 1489. The second and most successful ruler of the Lodi dynasty of the Delhi sultanate, he was also a poet of the Persian language and prepared a diwan of 9000 verses. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sikandar Lodi has received more than 883,699 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Sikandar Lodi is the 9,318th most popular politician (down from 8,361st in 2019), the 321st most popular biography from India and the 108th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sikandar Lodi ranks 9,318 out of 19,576. Before him are Georgios Kondylis, James Michel, Muhammad Shah of Brunei, Garibald, Honoré II, Prince of Monaco, and Prince Ernst of Hohenberg. After him are Berthold IV, Duke of Zähringen, Clotilde, Mawdud of Ghazni, Louis II, Landgrave of Thuringia, Eduardo Lonardi, and Hans Delbrück.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1450, Sikandar Lodi ranks 33. Before him are Bartolomeo Montagna, Ercole de' Roberti, Eleanor of Naples, Duchess of Ferrara, Marin Barleti, John of Foix, Viscount of Narbonne, and Yunus Pasha. After him are Yuriy Drohobych, Adam Kraft, Aelbrecht Bouts, Sharif Ali, Nephon II of Constantinople, and Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. Among people deceased in 1517, Sikandar Lodi ranks 19. Before him are Francesco Francia, Badi' al-Zaman Mirza, Hadım Sinan Pasha, Joanna of Aragon, Queen of Naples, Ludovico di Varthema, and Yunus Pasha.

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In India

Among people born in India, Sikandar Lodi ranks 321 out of 1,861. Before him are Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921), Nargis (1929), Hussain Muhammad Ershad (1930), T. H. White (1906), Mastani (1699), and Rambhadracharya (1950). After him are Puneeth Rajkumar (1975), Bhāskara I (600), Bahubali (null), Girish Karnad (1938), Abbé Faria (1756), and Viswanathan Anand (1969).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Sikandar Lodi ranks 108. Before him are K. Kamaraj (1903), Zail Singh (1916), Chandra Shekhar (1927), Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861), Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921), and Hussain Muhammad Ershad (1930). After him are Bahubali (null), Rajnath Singh (1951), Lakshmi Sahgal (1914), Mulayam Singh Yadav (1939), Lalu Prasad Yadav (1948), and Sanjay Gandhi (1946).

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