# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/balaji-vishwanath
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:37:54.257Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/balaji-vishwanath"
name: "Balaji Vishwanath"
slug: "balaji-vishwanath"
description: "Balaji Vishwanath Bhat was the first of a series of hereditary Peshwas hailing from the Bhat family who gained effective control of the Maratha Confederacy and other Mughal vassals during the early 18th century. Balaji Vishwanath assisted a young Maratha king Shahu to consolidate his grip on a kingdom that had been racked by civil war and persistently intruded on by the Mughals under Aurangzeb."
tagline: "Peshwa of the Maratha Empire"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peshwa_Balaji_Vishwanath.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1662-01-01"
deathDate: "1720-04-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.12366533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump