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Bandar-log
Bandar-log (Hindi: बन्दर-लोग, "monkey people") are Kipling's lawless, leaderless Monkey-People in The Jungle Book (1894), who kidnap Mowgli to the Cold Lairs in "Kaa's Hunting" and fear only the python Kaa; unlike the 1967 Disney monkeys, they have no king.
Bandaranaike International Airport
Bandaranaike International Airport, also known as Katunayake Airport, is Sri Lanka's principal international airport at Katunayake, about 18 miles north of Colombo, opened in 1968 and handling 9.96 million passengers in 2025.
Bandareswar Mound
Bandareswar Mound, Cuttack district, Odisha: an ASI-protected ancient Buddhist temple ruin site in the Dharmasala cluster near Langudi, with stupa remains spanning the 6th century BC to 10th century AD; front side fenced in 1989-90.
Bandari music
Bandari music (بندری), literally "music of the ports", is a dance and popular-music style from Iran's Persian Gulf coast, built from Iranian, Arab, and African elements.
Bandarshah
Bandarshah (بندر شاه) is a two-part novel by the Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih, published in Arabic as Daw' al-Bayt (1971) and Maryud (1976) and set in the village of Wad Hamid.
Bandaru Dattatreya (బండారు దత్తాత్రేయ)
Bandaru Dattatreya (బండారు దత్తాత్రేయ), born 1947, is an Indian BJP leader from Telangana, four-time Secunderabad Lok Sabha MP, former Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment, and Governor of Himachal Pradesh and then Haryana (2021–2025).
Bandaru Satyanarayana Murthy
Bandaru Satyanarayana Murthy (బండారు సత్యనారాయణమూర్తి) is a Telugu Desam Party politician, MLA for Madugula since June 2024, formerly three-term Paravada MLA (1989-1999) and minister under N. T. Rama Rao and Chandrababu Naidu. Distinct from Justice M. Satyanarayana Murthy.
Bandaru Sravani Sree
Bandaru Sravani Sree (బండారు శ్రావణి శ్రీ), TDP politician, is MLA for Singanamala (SC), Andhra Pradesh, elected in 2024 with 102,957 votes and an 8,788 margin after losing the seat in 2019; distinct from other Bandaru politicians.
Bandavirus dabieense
Bandavirus dabieense, also called Dabie bandavirus or SFTSV, is a tick-borne Phenuiviridae RNA virus causing severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome, with fatality up to 27-30% and no licensed vaccine.
Bandaya sahitya
Bandaya sahitya (ಬಂಡಾಯ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ), meaning protest literature, is a Kannada literary movement from the 1970s in which Dalit and marginalized writers opposed caste and inequality.
Bandcamp
Bandcamp: online record store and music community founded 2008 by Ethan Diamond in California; artists sell music and merch directly, keeping about 82% of sales; acquired by Epic Games 2022, then Songtradr 2023.
Bande à part (film)
Bande à part (Band of Outsiders) is Jean-Luc Godard's 1964 French New Wave heist film starring Anna Karina, Sami Frey, and Claude Brasseur, famous for its Madison dance and Louvre run; not the restaurant or band of the same name.
Banded iron formation
Banded iron formation is a marine sedimentary rock with alternating iron-rich and silica-rich layers, deposited mostly in the Precambrian and the main source of iron ore.
Banded krait
Banded krait (Bungarus fasciatus, ular welang), large venomous elapid of South and Southeast Asia with black and yellow bands, nocturnal snake-eater, neurotoxic venom, IUCN Least Concern.
Bandeira campaigns against the Jesuit missions of Guairá
The Bandeira campaigns against the Jesuit missions of Guairá (Expedições bandeirantes ao Guairá) were slave-raiding expeditions by São Paulo bandeirantes that destroyed the Guairá Jesuit missions from 1628 into the early 1630s.
Bandeira of Antônio Rapôso Tavares
The Bandeira of Antônio Rapôso Tavares, or Bandeira de Antônio Rapôso Tavares, was a Portuguese colonial expedition that traveled from São Paulo to the Amazon mouth between 1648 and 1651.
Bandeira of Fernão Dias Pais
The Bandeira of Fernão Dias Pais (Bandeira de Fernão Dias Pais) was a Paulista expedition that left São Paulo in 1674 to search for emeralds and silver in Minas Gerais.
Bandeirantes
Bandeirantes (bandeiras, bandeirantismo) were São Paulo-based colonial expeditions of the 16th to 18th centuries that enslaved Indigenous people and probed Brazil's interior, later turned into a paulista heroic myth and now heavily revised.
Bandeja paisa
Bandeja paisa, also called bandeja de arriero or bandeja montañera, is a large Colombian combination platter from Antioquia and the paisa region, built on beans, rice, meats, fried egg, plantain, arepa, and avocado; its national-dish status and 1950 dating are disputed.
Bandelier National Monument
Bandelier National Monument: NPS unit near Los Alamos, New Mexico, protecting 33,000+ acres of Ancestral Pueblo ruins (Tyuonyi, Long House, cavates) in Frijoles Canyon, established 1916 and named for Adolph Bandelier.
Bander power station
Bander power station, also known as Thermal Powertech Corporation India, is a 1,320 megawatt coal-fired power station at Painampuram, Andhra Pradesh, India, whose two units began commercial operation in 2015.
Bandersnatch
The bandersnatch is a ferocious, extremely fast fictional creature invented by Lewis Carroll, first mentioned in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass and his 1874 poem The Hunting of the Snark.
Bandgap voltage reference
A bandgap voltage reference is an analog circuit that sums a PTAT voltage with a base-emitter voltage to yield an output near 1.2 V, nearly independent of temperature.
Bandhan (बंधन) (1998 film)
Bandhan (बंधन) is a 1998 Hindi action drama romance directed by K. Muralimohana Rao, starring Salman Khan, Jackie Shroff, Rambha, and Ashwini Bhave; released 2 October 1998, it was a box office hit.
Bandhan Bank (বন্ধন ব্যাংক)
Bandhan Bank (বন্ধন ব্যাংক) is an Indian universal bank that grew out of a microfinance institution founded in 2001 and began banking operations in 2015.
Bandhanasthanaya Aniruddhan
Bandhanasthanaya Aniruddhan (ബന്ധനസ്ഥനായ അനിരുദ്ധൻ, "Aniruddhan in Prison") is a 1914 Malayalam khandakavya by Vallathol Narayana Menon that retells the Puranic love story of Usha and Aniruddha.
Bandhani (બાંધણી)
Bandhani (બાંધણી), also bandhej or sungadi, is a South Asian tie-dye textile technique from Sanskrit bandh, 'to tie'; thousands of hand-tied knots resist dye to form dots, centered in Kutch, Gujarat, with a registered GI.
Bandhavgarh National Park
Bandhavgarh National Park (Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve) is a 1968-established tiger reserve in Umaria, Madhya Pradesh, India, famed for its high Bengal tiger density, the 2,000-year-old Bandhavgarh Fort, and the 1951 capture of white tiger Mohan.
Bandi
Bandi (班第) was a Qing dynasty official and general who served the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong emperors, captured Yili in 1755, and killed himself when Amursana rebelled.
Bandi Chhor Divas (ਬੰਦੀ ਛੋੜ ਦਿਵਸ)
Bandi Chhor Divas (ਬੰਦੀ ਛੋੜ ਦਿਵਸ), "Prisoner Liberation Day," is a Sikh festival marking Guru Hargobind's 1619 release from Gwalior Fort with 52 prisoners, observed on the Kartik new moon alongside Diwali.