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Razia Sultana

1205 - 1240

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Raziyyat-Ud-Dunya Wa Ud-Din (Persian: سلطان رضیه الدنیا والدین; c. 1205 – 15 October 1240, r. 1236–1240), popularly known as Razia Sultan, was a ruler of the Delhi Sultanate in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent. She was the first female Muslim ruler of the subcontinent, and the only female Muslim ruler of Delhi. A daughter of Mamluk Sultan Shamsuddin Iltutmish, Razia administered Delhi during 1231–1232 when her father was busy in the Gwalior campaign. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Razia Sultana is the 509th most popular politician (up from 3,112th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from India (up from 108th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Indian Politician.

Razia Sultana was a woman who was the ruler of Delhi, India from 1236 to 1240. She is most famous for being the first female ruler of Delhi and for being the first woman to rule in the Muslim world.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Razia Sultana ranks 509 out of 19,576Before her are Ahmed II, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Tolui, Kocheril R. Narayanan, and Arcadius. After her are Eduard Shevardnadze, Omar al-Bashir, Jawaharlal Nehru, Józef Piłsudski, Kangxi Emperor, and Djoser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1205, Razia Sultana ranks 2Before her is Pope Adrian V. After her are Wenceslaus I of Bohemia, Tannhäuser, As-Salih Ayyub, Emperor Lizong, Elisabeth of Swabia, Michael II Komnenos Doukas, Demetrius of Montferrat, and Guy I de la Roche. Among people deceased in 1240, Razia Sultana ranks 3Before her are Fibonacci, and Ibn Arabi. After her are Llywelyn the Great, Constance of Hungary, Raymond Nonnatus, Konrad von Thüringen, Jacques de Vitry, Caesarius of Heisterbach, Chormaqan, Hartmann, Count of Württemberg, and Skule Bårdsson.

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In India

Among people born in India, Razia Sultana ranks 27 out of 1,861Before her are Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775), Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887), Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924), Shah Rukh Khan (1965), Rudyard Kipling (1865), and Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921). After her are Jawaharlal Nehru (1889), Jamsetji Tata (1839), Vivien Leigh (1913), Ānanda (-600), Brahmagupta (598), and Rani of Jhansi (1828).

Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Razia Sultana ranks 12Before her are A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931), Droupadi Murmu (1958), B. R. Ambedkar (1891), Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775), Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924), and Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921). After her are Jawaharlal Nehru (1889), Rani of Jhansi (1828), Zakir Husain (1897), Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910), Chandragupta Maurya (-340), and Subhas Chandra Bose (1897).