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Velu Nachiyar

1730 - 1796

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"Veeramangai" Rani Velu Nachiyar (3 January 1730 – 25 December 1796) was a queen of Sivaganga estate from c. 1780–1790. She was the first Indian queen to wage war with the East India Company in India. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Velu Nachiyar has received more than 1,276,741 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Velu Nachiyar is the 7,765th most popular politician (up from 7,878th in 2019), the 257th most popular biography from India (down from 250th in 2019) and the 88th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Velu Nachiyar ranks 7,765 out of 19,576. Before her are Amar-Sin, Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, Infanta María Teresa of Spain, Ibn Muqla, Mikuláš Dzurinda, and Hōjō Sōun. After her are Princess Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Dianne Feinstein, Phaedon Gizikis, Zu Xin, Roger III of Sicily, and Seonjong of Goryeo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1730, Velu Nachiyar ranks 12. Before her are Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, Josiah Wedgwood, Antonio Sacchini, James Bruce, and Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony. After her are Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, William Hamilton, Motoori Norinaga, Johann Hedwig, Pieter Boddaert, and Otto Friedrich Müller. Among people deceased in 1796, Velu Nachiyar ranks 15. Before her are Thomas Reid, Shahrokh Shah, Pyotr Rumyantsev, Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland, Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, and François de Charette. After her are Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, Prince Louis Charles of Prussia, François Séverin Marceau, and William Chambers.

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In India

Among people born in India, Velu Nachiyar ranks 257 out of 1,861. Before her are Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913), Bal Thackeray (1926), Chandrakirti (600), Sanghamitta (-281), Farrukhsiyar (1685), and Eknath (1533). After her are Kalpana Chawla (1961), Vandana Shiva (1952), Guru Amar Das (1479), Zakir Naik (1965), Mahinda (-285), and Akbar II (1760).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Velu Nachiyar ranks 88. Before her are Motilal Nehru (1861), Jayalalithaa (1948), Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913), Bal Thackeray (1926), Sanghamitta (-281), and Farrukhsiyar (1685). After her are Akbar II (1760), Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918), C. N. Annadurai (1909), Birbal (1528), Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900), and Begum Hazrat Mahal (1820).

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