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Bhama Shah

Bhama Shah (भामाशाह) was a minister and financier of Maharana Pratap of Mewar, remembered for placing his fortune at the Rana's disposal against the Mughal Empire.

Bhamakalapam (Bhama Kalapam) is a Kuchipudi dance-drama of Andhra Pradesh, composed by Siddhendra Yogi, centered on Satyabhama's quarrel with Krishna and reconciliation, and regarded as the founding work of the Kuchipudi tradition.

Bhamakalapam 2 (భామాకలాపం 2)

Bhamakalapam 2 (భామాకలాపం 2) is a 2024 Telugu heist thriller sequel to Bhamakalapam, directed by Abhimanyu Tadimeti, starring Priyamani as Anupama, released on Aha on February 16, 2024.

Bhamini shatpadi

Bhamini shatpadi (ಭಾಮಿನೀ ಷಟ್ಪದಿ) is a six-line meter of Kannada prosody counted in mātrās rather than syllables, used by major medieval poets such as Kumaravyasa, Raghavanka, and Chamarasa.

Oct 10, 2026

Bhamo Sayadaw (Bhaddanta Kumarabhivamsa)

Bhamo Sayadaw, born Bhaddanta Kumarabhivamsa, was a Burmese Theravada monk who chaired Myanmar's State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee from 2010 until his death in May 2023 at age 94.

Bhana

Bhana is a one-act Sanskrit dramatic form performed by a single actor who narrates incidents to imagined offstage characters, counted among the ten types of Sanskrit drama in Bharata's Natyashastra.

Bhanaka tradition

The bhāṇaka tradition was the system of specialist reciter-monks who memorized and passed on early Buddhist texts orally until the Pali canon was written down in Sri Lanka in the 1st century BCE.

Bhand Pather

Bhand Pather, sometimes called Bhand Jashna, is a centuries-old open-air folk theater of Kashmir performed by Bhand community troupes, combining satire, clownery, dance, and improvisation, and now endangered.

Oct 15, 2026

Bhandardara Dam

Bhandardara Dam (भंडारदरा धरण), also known as Wilson Dam, is a masonry gravity dam on the Pravara River in Maharashtra, India, completed in 1926 to impound Arthur Lake.

Bhandi

Bhandi (भण्डि) was a cousin, minister, and general of the Indian emperor Harshavardhana, known from Banabhatta's Harshacharita; he led the cavalry that routed the Malwa army in 606 CE.

Bhang (भांग)

Bhang (भांग, bhāṅg) is an edible cannabis preparation of ground leaves and flowers, drunk in India in drinks like thandai during Holi and Maha Shivaratri.

Bhangar Gaan

Bhangar Gaan (ভাঙার গান), "The Song of Breaking," is a Bengali poem and song by Kazi Nazrul Islam, written in December 1921 against British rule and later banned.

Bhangarh

Bhangarh Fort, a ruined 16th–17th century Kachwaha fort town in Alwar district, Rajasthan, between Jaipur and Alwar; famed as India's most haunted site, with ASI-enforced sunset-to-sunrise entry ban and curse legends.

Bhangarh Fort (भानगढ़ दुर्ग)

Bhangarh Fort (भानगढ़ दुर्ग), also called Banghar Fort, is a ruined fort and township of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Alwar district, Rajasthan, India.

Oct 21, 2026

Bhangi guda

Bhangi guda (bhangi gida) is the Kannada vernacular name for Cannabis sativa, the hemp plant called bhanga in Sanskrit; Bhamgi Guda is also a classical Ayurvedic jaggery-based avaleha formulation listed among standard Ayurvedic medicines.

Bhangi Misl

The Bhangi Misl (ਭੰਗੀ ਮਿਸਲ) was a Sikh misl of eighteenth-century Punjab, at its peak the most powerful in territory and manpower, with its capital at Amritsar.

Bhangra (music)

Bhangra (music): popular music genre born from the Punjabi folk harvest dance, reinvented in Britain from the late 1970s by fusing dhol beats, tumbi, and Punjabi lyrics with reggae, hip-hop, and pop; known for the chaal rhythm and Punjabi MC's 1998 hit 'Mundian To Bach Ke'.

Bhangra (ਭੰਗੜਾ) (dance)

Bhangra (ਭੰਗੜਾ) is a Punjabi men's harvest dance from the Majha region, danced at Vaisakhi to the dhol, later transformed into British-Asian hybrid music and a global diasporic dance scene.

Bhanja dynasty

The Bhanja dynasty (ଭଞ୍ଜ ବଂଶ) was a family of ruling dynasties of the interior uplands of Odisha, India, whose descendants survived as princely houses into the twentieth century.

Oct 21, 2026

Bhannar Theri Mound

Bhannar Theri, also written Bhannar-Theri, is a group of ancient mounds in Ganganagar district, Rajasthan, India, a centrally protected ASI monument (JDHRJ044, Jodhpur Circle) at 73.924722 E, 29.360278 N, first scheduled under the 1951 Act.

Bhanubhakta Acharya

Bhanubhakta Acharya (भानुभक्त आचार्य, 1814–1868) was a Nepali poet honored with the title Adikavi, meaning first poet, for translating the Sanskrit Ramayana into simple Nepali verse and unifying the language.

Bhanubhakta Ramayana

The Bhanubhakta Ramayana (भानुभक्त रामायण) is a Nepali verse rendering of the Ramayana by Bhanubhakta Acharya, Nepal's first poet, completed in 1853 and regarded as the first Nepali epic.

Bhanumati

Bhanumati (Assamese: ভানুমতী, Bhanumoti) is a novel by the Assamese writer Padmanath Gohain Baruah, serialized in Bijuli and published as a book in 1908, generally regarded as the first Assamese novel.

Bhanupriya (భానుప్రియ)

Bhanupriya (భానుప్రియ), born Mangalabhama/Manga Bhanu in 1967, is an Indian Kuchipudi-dancer-turned-actress with about 155 films in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi, known for Swarnakamalam, Thalapathi and three Nandi Awards.

Bhanupriya Bhooter Hotel

Bhanupriya Bhooter Hotel is a 2026 Bengali horror comedy directed by Aritra Mukherjee, starring Mimi Chakraborty, Soham Majumdar, Bonny Sengupta, and Swastika Dutta, set in a haunted mountain hotel.

Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali

Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali (ভানুসিংহ ঠাকুরের পদাবলী) is an 1884 collection of Vaishnava lyrics that Rabindranath Tagore wrote in adolescence under the pseudonym Bhanusimha, imitating the medieval poets of Radha and Krishna.

Bhanwari Devi (भंवरी देवी)

Bhanwari Devi (भंवरी देवी), Rajasthani saathin social worker gang-raped in 1992 for stopping a child marriage; her case led to the Vishakha guidelines and India's POSH Act 2013.