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Ahilyabai Holkar

1725 - 1795

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Ahilyabai Holkar (Marathi pronunciation: [əɦɪljɑbaɪ]; 31 May 1725 – 13 August 1795), also spelled Ahalya Bai, was the Rajamata and later the ruling queen of Indore within the Maratha Empire. She established Maheshwar (in Madhya Pradesh) as the seat of the Holkar Dynasty. A beloved figure of Indian history, she is renowned for good governance, social welfare, and humanitarian work along with religious, educational, and cultural advancements. She contributed to the growth of Indian architecture through the commission of various temples, Ghats, and Dharmshalas. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ahilyabai Holkar is the 3,768th most popular politician (up from 5,512th in 2019), the 151st most popular biography from India (up from 184th in 2019) and the 55th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ahilyabai Holkar ranks 3,768 out of 19,576. Before her are Malcolm IV of Scotland, François Tombalbaye, Frederick of Naples, Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma, Drusilla, and Wim Kok. After her are Giacomo Matteotti, Antiochus VIII Grypus, Wei Yan, Devlet I Giray, Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Al-Qahir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1725, Ahilyabai Holkar ranks 7. Before her are Giacomo Casanova, Abdul Hamid I, Robert Clive, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, and Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans. After her are Suzuki Harunobu, Ludovico Manin, Henry Benedict Stuart, Pyotr Rumyantsev, Duke Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre. Among people deceased in 1795, Ahilyabai Holkar ranks 7. Before her are Louis XVII of France, Alessandro Cagliostro, François-André Danican Philidor, Sayat-Nova, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, and Henry Clinton. After her are Honoré III, Prince of Monaco, Georg Benda, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Carl Michael Bellman, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, and Pieter Boddaert.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ahilyabai Holkar ranks 151 out of 1,861. Before her are Varāhamihira (505), C. N. R. Rao (1934), Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889), Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551), Guru Arjan (1563), and Rajaraja I (947). After her are Basava (1134), Lawrence Durrell (1912), Lata Mangeshkar (1929), Sushruta (-620), Sher Shah Suri (1486), and Kasturba Gandhi (1869).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Ahilyabai Holkar ranks 55. Before her are Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888), Ghiyas ud din Balban (1200), Rajendra Chola I (1000), Sambhaji (1657), Sanghamitta (-281), and Rajaraja I (947). After her are Sher Shah Suri (1486), Bindusara (-320), Vikramaditya (-102), Jayalalithaa (1948), Mahboob Ali Khan (1866), and Nana Sahib (1824).

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