Sep 20, 2023, 09:08 AM IST

9 greatest Kings of India

Riddhima Kanetkar

Ashoka, popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was the third Mauryan Emperor of Magadha in the Indian subcontinent during c. 268 to 232 BCE 

Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar popularly known as Akbar the Great was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605

Chandragupta Maurya was the founder of the Maurya Empire and reigned from 320 BCE to 298 BCE

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj or Shivaji I was an Indian ruler and a member of the Bhonsle Maratha clan. In 1674, he was formally crowned the Chhatrapati of his realm at Raigad Fort

Maharana Pratap Singh Sisodia was a king of the Sisodia dynasty in Udaipur , Mewar

Prithviraj III, popularly known as Prithviraj Chauhan was a king from the Chauhan (Chahamana) dynasty who ruled the territory of Sapadalaksha, with his capital at Ajmer in present-day Rajasthan

Ranjit Singh, popularly known as Sher-e-Punjab was the first Maharaja of the Sikh Empire

Rajaraja Chola I was a great emperor of the Chola Koli dynasty of South India who ruled from 985 to 1014

Kanishka I or Kanishka the Great was an emperor of the Kushan dynasty who reigned from c. 127–150 CE