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Tulsidas

1532 - 1623

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Rambola Dubey (Hindi pronunciation: [rɑːməboːlɑː d̪ubeː]; 11 August 1511 – 30 July 1623), popularly known as Goswami Tulsidas (Sanskrit pronunciation: [tʊlsiːdaːsa]), was a Vaishnava (Ramanandi) Hindu saint and poet, renowned for his devotion to the deity Rama. He wrote several popular works in Sanskrit, Awadhi, and Braj Bhasha, but is best known as the author of the Hanuman Chalisa and of the epic Ramcharitmanas, a retelling of the Sanskrit Ramayana, based on Rama's life, in the vernacular Awadhi language. Tulsidas spent most of his life in the cities of Banaras (modern Varanasi) and Ayodhya. The Tulsi Ghat on the Ganges in Varanasi is named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tulsidas is the 471st most popular writer (down from 372nd in 2019), the 77th most popular biography from India (down from 44th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Indian Writer.

Tulsidas is most famous for writing the Ramcharitmanas, which is a long poem about the life of the Hindu god Rama.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tulsidas ranks 471 out of 7,302. Before him are Harper Lee, Mahmoud Darwish, Eugene O'Neill, Alessandro Manzoni, Charles, Duke of Orléans, and Erich von Däniken. After him are Mo Yan, Françoise Sagan, Lactantius, André Maurois, Karl Barth, and Ken Follett.

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Among people born in 1532, Tulsidas ranks 2. Before him is John Hawkins. After him are Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, Yermak Timofeyevich, Maerten de Vos, Francis Walsingham, Luís Fróis, Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, and Menocchio. Among people deceased in 1623, Tulsidas ranks 5. Before him are Pope Gregory XV, Anne Hathaway, Halime Sultan, and Mariam-uz-Zamani. After him are William Byrd, Josaphat Kuntsevych, John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen, Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn, Uesugi Kagekatsu, Domenico Fetti, and Paolo Sarpi.

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In India

Among people born in India, Tulsidas ranks 77 out of 1,861. Before him are Akbar II (1760), Amartya Sen (1933), Jim Corbett (1875), Ibrahim Lodi (1450), Syed Ahmad Khan (1817), and Gerald Durrell (1925). After him are Savitribai Phule (1831), Zubin Mehta (1936), Dara Shukoh (1615), Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931), Shivaji (1627), and Jahanara Begum (1614).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Tulsidas ranks 10. Before him are Rudyard Kipling (1865), Valmiki (-80), Jaggi Vasudev (1957), Salman Rushdie (1947), Ghalib (1797), and Jim Corbett (1875). After him are Savitribai Phule (1831), William Makepeace Thackeray (1811), Meera (1498), Premchand (1880), Zeb-un-Nissa (1638), and Vātsyāyana (300).

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