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Roshanara Begum

1617 - 1671

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Roshanara Begum (Persian: روشن آرا بیگم, lit. 'Adorned in Light'); 3 September 1617 – 11 September 1671) was a Mughal princess and poet. She was the third daughter of Emperor Shah Jahan and his wife, Mumtaz Mahal, and supported her younger brother Aurangzeb during the war of succession which took place after Shah Jahan's illness in 1657. After Aurangzeb's accession to the throne in 1658, Roshanara was given the title of Padshah Begum by her brother displacing her sister and rival Jahanara Begum. This made her the de-facto First Lady of the Mughal Empire, and a powerful political figure. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roshanara Begum is the 5,889th most popular writer (down from 5,261st in 2019), the 822nd most popular biography from India (down from 670th in 2019) and the 104th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among writers, Roshanara Begum ranks 5,889 out of 7,302. Before her are Richard Hoggart, Algis Budrys, Yakov Polonsky, Helen Hunt Jackson, Julie Garwood, and Alfredo Bryce. After her are Ingrid Jonker, Nikolai Aseev, Gianni Celati, Francisco Acuña de Figueroa, Sun Axelsson, and Lucía Etxebarría.

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Among people born in 1617, Roshanara Begum ranks 16. Before her are Leopoldo de' Medici, Adil Giray, Yun Hyu, Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony, John Michael Wright, and Ralph Cudworth.  Among people deceased in 1671, Roshanara Begum ranks 17. Before her are Antonio Barberini, Yerofey Khabarov, Roche Braziliano, Jan van Bijlert, Joachim Ernest, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön, and Yun Seondo.

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In India

Among people born in India, Roshanara Begum ranks 822 out of 1,861. Before her are Radhanath Sikdar (1813), Jagjit Singh (1941), Cornelia Sorabji (1866), P. T. Usha (1964), M. K. Stalin (1953), and Jagdish Bhagwati (1934). After her are Bakht Khan (1797), Norman Pritchard (1877), Madan Lal Dhingra (1883), Salil Chowdhury (1925), Sherlyn Chopra (1984), and Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1941).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Roshanara Begum ranks 104. Before her are Swarnakumari Devi (1855), Varsha Adalja (1940), Muthuswami Dikshitar (1775), Nirmal Verma (1929), Anita Desai (1937), and Cornelia Sorabji (1866). After her are Ismat Chughtai (1915), Fareed Zakaria (1964), Saroo Brierley (1981), Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872), Nalini Bala Devi (1898), and Javed Akhtar (1945).

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