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Guru Har Rai

1630 - 1661

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Guru Har Rai (Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਹਰਿ ਰਾਇ, pronunciation: [gʊɾuː ɦəɾ ɾaːɪ]; 16 January 1630 – 6 October 1661) revered as the seventh Nanak, was the seventh of ten Gurus of the Sikh religion. He became the Sikh leader at age 14, on 3 March 1644, after the death of his grandfather and the sixth Sikh leader Guru Hargobind. He guided the Sikhs for about seventeen years, till his death at age 31. Guru Har Rai is notable for maintaining the large army of Sikh soldiers that the sixth Sikh Guru had amassed, yet avoiding military conflict. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Guru Har Rai is the 11,836th most popular politician (down from 11,525th in 2019), the 455th most popular biography from India (down from 425th in 2019) and the 148th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Guru Har Rai ranks 11,837 out of 19,576. Before him are Sobekhotep VIII, Nicolae Titulescu, Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Sarah Childress Polk, Văn Tiến Dũng, Artaxias I of Iberia, and Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun. After him are Ralph Gonsalves, Mohammad Hidayatullah, Georges Mandel, Banda Singh Bahadur, and Ri Kun-mo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1630, Guru Har Rai ranks 18. Before him are Pjetër Bogdani, Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria, Maria van Oosterwijck, Roche Braziliano, and Pierre Daniel Huet. After him are Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp, Nikolay Diletsky, Cornelis Pietersz Bega, Jean Richer, Lorenzo Gafà, and Silvestro Valier. Among people deceased in 1661, Guru Har Rai ranks 19. Before him are Martino Martini, Andrea Sacchi, Pieter de Molijn, Teimuraz I of Kakheti, Louis Couperin, and Pyotr Beketov. After him are Daniel Seghers, Jan Gerritsz van Bronckhorst, Thomas Fuller, and Sarmad Kashani.

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In India

Among people born in India, Guru Har Rai ranks 455 out of 1,861. Before him are Gangubai Hangal (1913), Oswald Gracias (1944), D. R. Kaprekar (1905), Bhupen Hazarika (1926), Telesphore Toppo (1939), and Bismillah Khan (1916). After him are Mohammad Hidayatullah (1905), Bhavabhuti (null), Madhubala (1933), Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (1874), Chandra Shekhar (1927), and Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana (1556).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Guru Har Rai ranks 148. Before him are Shah Alam II (1728), Fatima Sheikh (1831), Ahmad Shah Bahadur (1725), BP Koirala (1914), Jacques Lauriston (1768), and Jahandar Shah (1661). After him are Mohammad Hidayatullah (1905), Chandra Shekhar (1927), Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana (1556), Farrukhsiyar (1685), Alamgir II (1699), and Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (1892).

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