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Surdas

1478 - 1583

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Surdas was a 16th-century blind Hindu devotional poet and singer, who was known for his works written in praise of Krishna. His compositions captured his devotion towards Krishna. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Surdas has received more than 1,209,560 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Surdas is the 1,913th most popular writer (down from 1,826th in 2019), the 243rd most popular biography from India (down from 217th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 62.51

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Surdas ranks 1,913 out of 7,302. Before her are Viktor Barna, Ruan Ji, György Konrád, Clark Ashton Smith, Moschus, and Eiji Tsuburaya. After her are Gitta Sereny, Watchman Nee, Juhani Aho, Nicanor Parra, Miklós Nyiszli, and Thomas Wyatt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1478, Surdas ranks 14. Before her are John, Prince of Asturias, Jan Gossaert, Pánfilo de Narváez, Hatuey, Sancha of Aragon, and Barbara Jagiellon. After her are Gian Giorgio Trissino, Louis V, Elector Palatine, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Wolfgang Capito, Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, and Konrad Pellikan. Among people deceased in 1583, Surdas ranks 9. Before her are Fernão Mendes Pinto, Magnus, Duke of Holstein, Oichi, Louis VI, Elector Palatine, Shibata Katsuie, and Ivan Fyodorov. After her are Oda Nobutaka, Pirro Ligorio, Andrey Kurbsky, Antoinette de Bourbon, Juan de Garay, and Humphrey Gilbert.

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In India

Among people born in India, Surdas ranks 243 out of 1,861. Before her are Kadambini Ganguly (1861), Jahanara Begum (1614), Jayaprakash Narayan (1902), Ratan Tata (1937), Meher Baba (1894), and Shantanu (null). After her are Mir Jafar (1691), Liaquat Ali Khan (1895), Anandi Gopal Joshi (1865), Abdul-Qādir Bedil (1642), Tansen (1493), and Motilal Nehru (1861).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Surdas ranks 40. Before her are Kuvempu (1904), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942), Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907), Anna Leonowens (1831), Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876), and Mir Taqi Mir (1723). After her are Abdul-Qādir Bedil (1642), D. R. Bendre (1896), Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908), Shakuntala Devi (1929), Rahul Sankrityayan (1893), and Jaggi Vasudev (1957).

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