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Surdas

1478 - 1583

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Surdas (Sanskrit: सूरदास, romanized: Sūradāsa) was a 16th-century blind Hindu devotional poet and singer, who was known for his works written in praise of the deity Krishna. He was a Vaishnava devotee of Krishna, and he was also a revered poet and singer. His compositions captured his devotion towards Krishna. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Surdas has received more than 1,108,931 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Surdas is the 1,830th most popular writer (down from 1,490th in 2019), the 220th most popular biography from India (down from 152nd in 2019) and the 37th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 1.1M

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  • 55.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Surdas ranks 1,830 out of 5,755. Before her are Prosper of Aquitaine, Isaac Casaubon, Jonas Mekas, Maria Shriver, Eino Leino, and Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis. After her are Miklós Nyiszli, Karin Boye, Shen Yue, Adam Oehlenschläger, Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, and Alberto Manguel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1478, Surdas ranks 12. Before her are Giorgione, Baldassare Castiglione, John, Prince of Asturias, Jan Gossaert, Pánfilo de Narváez, and Hatuey. After her are Barbara Jagiellon, Sancha of Aragon, Gian Giorgio Trissino, Louis V, Elector Palatine, Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, and Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés. Among people deceased in 1583, Surdas ranks 7. Before her are Nurbanu Sultan, Catherine Jagiellon, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Magnus, Duke of Holstein, Oichi, and Shibata Katsuie. After her are Ivan Fyodorov, Louis VI, Elector Palatine, Antoinette de Bourbon, Oda Nobutaka, Andrey Kurbsky, and Pirro Ligorio.

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In India

Among people born in India, Surdas ranks 220 out of 1,493. Before her are Raja Ravi Varma (1848), Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907), Hyder Ali (1720), Jayaprakash Narayan (1902), Mithun Chakraborty (1950), and Henry McMahon (1862). After her are Anna Mani (1918), Tilopa (928), Rajaraja I (947), Hemachandra (1089), Jamsetji Tata (1839), and Khaleda Zia (1945).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Surdas ranks 37. Before her are Kuvempu (1904), Andal (800), Deepak Chopra (1946), Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942), and Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907). After her are D. R. Bendre (1896), Abdul-Qādir Bedil (1642), Rahul Sankrityayan (1893), Jaggi Vasudev (1957), Shakuntala Devi (1929), and Idries Shah (1924).

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