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Siraj ud-Daulah

1733 - 1757

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Mir Syed Jafar Ali Khan Mirza Muhammad Siraj-ud-Daulah (1733 – 2 July 1757), commonly known as Siraj-ud-Daulah or Siraj ud-Daula, was the last independent Nawab of Bengal. The end of his reign marked the start of the rule of the East India Company over Bengal and later almost all of the Indian subcontinent. Siraj succeeded his maternal grandfather, Alivardi Khan as the Nawab of Bengal in April 1756 at the age of 23. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Siraj ud-Daulah has received more than 2,228,875 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Siraj ud-Daulah is the 3,779th most popular politician (up from 5,394th in 2019), the 122nd most popular biography from India (up from 165th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Siraj ud-Daulah ranks 3,779 out of 19,576. Before him are Gundobad, Berengaria of Castile, Vishvamitra, Kim Tu-bong, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, and Malcolm III of Scotland. After him are Antipater the Idumaean, Hypereides, Rama II of Siam, Veljko Kadijević, Helenus, and Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1733, Siraj ud-Daulah ranks 5. Before him are Joseph Priestley, Victoire of France, Magtymguly Pyragy, and Christoph Martin Wieland. After him are Carsten Niebuhr, Hubert Robert, Jean-Charles de Borda, Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland, Gottfried van Swieten, Daniel Solander, and Christoph Friedrich Nicolai. Among people deceased in 1757, Siraj ud-Daulah ranks 9. Before him are Maria Josepha of Austria, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, Rosalba Carriera, Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, and Johann Stamitz. After him are Robert-François Damiens, 7th Dalai Lama, David Hartley, Amursana, Bulleh Shah, and Antoine Pesne.

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In India

Among people born in India, Siraj ud-Daulah ranks 122 out of 1,861. Before him are Droupadi Murmu (1958), Akshay Kumar (1967), Ahmad Sirhindi (1564), Chandragupta II (400), Sambhaji (1657), and Vishvamitra (-2000). After him are Buddhaghosa (401), Ravi Shankar (1956), Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899), Dadabhai Naoroji (1825), Mata Amritanandamayi (1953), and Sai Baba of Shirdi (1835).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Siraj ud-Daulah ranks 38. Before him are Razia Sultana (1205), Dhyan Chand (1905), Droupadi Murmu (1958), Chandragupta II (400), Sambhaji (1657), and Vishvamitra (-2000). After him are Dadabhai Naoroji (1825), Ajatashatru (-500), Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (1879), Muhammad bin Tughluq (1290), Ghiyas ud din Balban (1200), and Henry McMahon (1862).

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