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Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV

1884 - 1940

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Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV (4 June 1884 – 3 August 1940) was the twenty-fourth Maharaja of Mysore, reigning from 1902 until his death in 1940. Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV is popularly deemed a rajarshi, or 'saintly king', a moniker with which Mahatma Gandhi revered the king in 1925 for his administrative reforms and achievements. He was a philosopher king, seen by Paul Brunton as living the ideal expressed in Plato's Republic. Herbert Samuel compared him to Emperor Ashoka. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV is the 14,831st most popular politician (down from 12,629th in 2019), the 658th most popular biography from India (down from 479th in 2019) and the 190th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV ranks 14,831 out of 19,576. Before him are Christian Kern, Muharrem İnce, Ivan Babushkin, Ingibjörg H. Bjarnason, Mulayam Singh Yadav, and Robert Abela. After him are Muhammad Mian Soomro, Juan Manuel Gálvez, Uchida Kōsai, Mario Cuomo, Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, and Mukhu Aliyev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV ranks 188. Before him are Georg Zacharias, Louis Abell, József Rády, Olle Lanner, Michel de Klerk, and Fumio Gotō. After him are Kostas Varnalis, Frithiof Mårtensson, Georgi Kyoseivanov, León Felipe, Guy de Luget, and Armand Massard. Among people deceased in 1940, Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV ranks 154. Before him are Edgar Adams, Paul Passy, Smedley Butler, István Énekes, La Jana, and Saint-Pol-Roux. After him are Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Albert Richter, Charley Chase, Wilhelm Anderson, Agnes Ayres, and Julián Besteiro.

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In India

Among people born in India, Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV ranks 658 out of 1,861. Before him are K. D. Jadhav (1926), Shriram Lagoo (1927), Kiran Bedi (1949), Kamala Surayya (1934), Manna Dey (1919), and Mulayam Singh Yadav (1939). After him are Fauja Singh (1911), Indira Nath (1938), Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah (1565), Dia Mirza (1981), Fathima Beevi (1927), and Maithili Sharan Gupt (1886).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV ranks 190. Before him are Bhagwan Das (1869), Mohammad Hamid Ansari (1937), Paddy Ashdown (1941), V. N. Janaki (1923), Kiran Bedi (1949), and Mulayam Singh Yadav (1939). After him are Govind Ballabh Pant (1887), Wasim Sajjad (1941), Gopinath Bordoloi (1890), Shyamala Gopalan (1938), Islam Shah Suri (1510), and Sushma Swaraj (1952).

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