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Aurangzeb

1618 - 1707

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Alamgir I (Muhi al-Din Muhammad; 3 November 1618 – 3 March 1707), commonly known by the title Aurangzeb, also called Aurangzeb the Conqueror, was the sixth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1658 until his death in 1707. Under his reign, the Mughal Empire reached its greatest extent, with territory spanning nearly the entirety of the Indian subcontinent. Aurangzeb and the Mughals belonged to a branch of the Timurid dynasty. He held administrative and military posts under his father Shah Jahan (r. 1628–1658) and gained recognition as an accomplished military commander. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aurangzeb is the 1,435th most popular politician (down from 843rd in 2019), the 66th most popular biography from India (down from 32nd in 2019) and the 27th most popular Indian Politician.

Aurangzeb is most famous for being a Muslim emperor who ruled India and Pakistan from 1658 to 1707. He was the last of the Mughal emperors.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Aurangzeb ranks 1,435 out of 19,576. Before him are Fuxi, Leo IV the Khazar, David Lloyd George, Julius Streicher, Valdemar IV of Denmark, and Trygve Lie. After him are Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, Petronius Maximus, Clement Attlee, Samo, and Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1618, Aurangzeb ranks 1. After him are Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Elisabeth of the Palatinate, Jeremiah Horrocks, Hishikawa Moronobu, Ivan Bohun, François Pierre La Varenne, François Blondel, Vittoria Farnese, Peter Lely, Juraj Križanić, and Jan Dirksz Both. Among people deceased in 1707, Aurangzeb ranks 2. Before him is Dieterich Buxtehude. After him are Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan, Muhammad Azam Shah, Shitao, Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Ahmad Khani, Jean Mabillon, Christoph Cellarius, Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and Willem van de Velde the Younger.

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In India

Among people born in India, Aurangzeb ranks 66 out of 1,861. Before him are C. V. Raman (1888), P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921), Salman Khan (1965), Iskander Mirza (1899), Ram Narayan (1927), and Mir Osman Ali Khan (1886). After him are Ghalib (1797), Bhāskara II (1114), Mariam-uz-Zamani (1542), Guru Gobind Singh (1666), Akbar II (1760), and Amartya Sen (1933).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Aurangzeb ranks 27. Before him are H. D. Deve Gowda (1933), Ajatashatru (-500), Alauddin Khalji (1266), P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921), Iskander Mirza (1899), and Mir Osman Ali Khan (1886). After him are Akbar II (1760), Ibrahim Lodi (1450), Dara Shukoh (1615), Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931), Shivaji (1627), and Jahanara Begum (1614).

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