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Balaji Vishwanath

1662 - 1720

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Balaji Vishwanath Bhat (1 January 1662 – 12 April 1720) was the first of a series of hereditary Peshwas hailing from the Bhat family who gained effective control of the Maratha Confederacy and other Mughal vassals during the early 18th century. Balaji Vishwanath assisted a young Maratha king Shahu to consolidate his grip on a kingdom that had been racked by civil war and persistently intruded on by the Mughals under Aurangzeb. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Balaji Vishwanath is the 15,738th most popular politician (down from 12,621st in 2019), the 749th most popular biography from India (down from 478th in 2019) and the 206th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Balaji Vishwanath ranks 15,738 out of 19,576. Before him are Joan, Lady of Wales, Jyoti Basu, Abdul Qadir Bajamal, Christine Lambrecht, Héctor Rossetto, and Antonio Martino. After him are Eugenio Scalfari, Žarko Paspalj, Františka Plamínková, Qin Gang, Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé, and John Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1662, Balaji Vishwanath ranks 16. Before him are Augustus William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Jan Frans van Bloemen, Baltacı Mehmet Pasha, Sebastiano Mocenigo, Richard Bentley, and Matthew Henry.  Among people deceased in 1720, Balaji Vishwanath ranks 14. Before him are Peter Tordenskjold, Anne Dacier, Abdul-Qādir Bedil, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway, and Nicolas de Fer.

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In India

Among people born in India, Balaji Vishwanath ranks 749 out of 1,861. Before him are Girija Devi (1929), K. S. Chithra (1963), Rani Mukerji (1978), Jyoti Basu (1914), K. Shivaram Karanth (1902), and Sivaji Ganesan (1928). After him are Tanuja (1943), Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (1947), Altaf Hussain Hali (1837), Trilok Gurtu (1951), Hariprasad Chaurasia (1938), and Tiger Shroff (1990).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Balaji Vishwanath ranks 206. Before him are Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (1923), Krishna Prasad Bhattarai (1924), Alivardi Khan (1671), Venkaiah Naidu (1949), Mayawati (1956), and Jyoti Basu (1914). After him are V. K. Sasikala (1954), Shuja-ud-Daula (1732), Sharad Pawar (1940), Ram Vilas Paswan (1946), K. Sivan (1957), and Muiz ud din Bahram (null).

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