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Ganga Mai Ki Betiyan

Ganga Mai Ki Betiyan (गंगा माई की बेटियां) is a Hindi Zee TV family drama premiering 22 September 2025, produced by Dreamiyata Entertainment, about Ganga Mai, abandoned for bearing no son, raising three daughters in Varanasi.

Ganga Ram (ਗੰਗਾ ਰਾਮ)

Sir Ganga Ram (1851–1927) was a Punjabi civil engineer and philanthropist of British India who built many Lahore landmarks and endowed hospitals in Lahore and New Delhi.

Ganga Singh

Ganga Singh (गंगा सिंह) was Maharaja of the princely state of Bikaner from 1887 to 1943, who built the Gang Canal and led troops in the First World War.

Ganga Valles

Ganga Valles is a 200 km valley system on Venus at about 4.8°N, 53°E in Ovda Regio, a complexly anastomosing network of sinuous channels named by the IAU in 2006 for the Hindu goddess of the Ganges.

Ganga Zumba

Ganga Zumba was the paramount chief, or king, of Palmares, a quilombo of escaped slaves in Pernambuco, colonial Brazil, who negotiated a peace treaty with the Portuguese in 1678.

Gangaa (गंगा)

Gangaa (गंगा), also Sagar Ki Gangaa, is an Indian Hindi soap opera on &TV (2015–2017, 595 episodes) by Sphere Origins about a child widow, starring Ruhana Khanna, Aditi Sharma, and Vishal Vashishtha.

Gangaa Jamunaa Saraswati (गंगा जमुना सरस्वती)

Gangaa Jamunaa Saraswati (गंगा जमुना सरस्वती), 1988 Hindi film directed by Manmohan Desai, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Mithun Chakraborty, Jaya Prada, Meenakshi Sheshadri; a love-triangle revenge drama that flopped and was Desai's last film as director.

Gangaajal (गंगाजल)

Gangaajal (गंगाजल), also called Gangajal, is Prakash Jha's 2003 Hindi crime drama starring Ajay Devgn as SP Amit Kumar, inspired by the 1979-80 Bhagalpur blindings, released 29 August 2003, winner of the National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues.

Gangadhar Gadgil

Gangadhar Gadgil was a Marathi writer from Mumbai regarded as the leading exponent of the Marathi navakatha, winning the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1996 for his autobiography.

Gangadhar Meher

Gangadhar Meher (ଗଙ୍ଗାଧର ମେହେର) was an Odia poet of Western Odisha, called Swabhaba Kabi, the Poet of Nature, whose epic Tapaswini retells Sita's life after her exile.

Gangadhar Nehru (गंगाधर नेहरू)

Gangadhar Nehru (गंगाधर नेहरू) was a Delhi police officer who served as the last Kotwal of Delhi before the Indian Rebellion of 1857, and was the father of Motilal Nehru.

Gangadhar Rao (गंगाधर राव)

Gangadhar Rao (गंगाधर राव निंबालकर), fifth and last Raja of Jhansi (r. 1838/1843–1853), husband of Rani Lakshmibai; his 1853 adoption of Damodar Rao was rejected under the Doctrine of Lapse, leading to Jhansi's annexation.

Gangai Amaran (கங்கை அமரன்)

Gangai Amaran (கங்கை அமரன்), born Gangadharan in 1947, is a Tamil film composer, lyricist, singer, actor, and director, younger brother of Ilaiyaraaja and father of Venkat Prabhu; known for Karagattakaran and over 160 film scores.

Gangaikonda Cholapuram

Gangaikonda Cholapuram (கங்கை கொண்ட சோழபுரம்) is Rajendra Chola I's former Chola capital in Tamil Nadu, whose Brihadisvara Shiva temple, completed 1035 with a 53-m curved vimana, joined UNESCO's Great Living Chola Temples in 2004.

Gangara

Gangara: ancient city in Caucasian Albania named by Ptolemy (also Gaitara, Gagara), tentatively identified with Baku, Alyat, or the Janakhar site; distinct from Gangra in Paphlagonia and West African Gangara sites.

Gangasagar (গঙ্গাসাগর)

Gangasagar (গঙ্গাসাগর), also Sagar Island, is a Hindu pilgrimage site in South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, where the Ganga meets the Bay of Bengal; its January Makar Sankranti Mela at the Kapil Muni Ashram is India's second largest congregation after the Kumbh.

Gangdong Peace of 1019

The Gangdong Peace of 1019 was the settlement that ended the third Khitan invasion of Goryeo, in which Gang Gam-chan crushed a 100,000-strong Khitan army at the Battle of Gwiju.

Gangdong Six Garrisons

The Gangdong Six Garrisons (강동육주, 江東六州) were six fortified prefectures Goryeo established in the lower Yalu River basin after the 993 Khitan invasion, forming its northwestern defense line against later Khitan attacks.

Gangers (film)

Gangers (கேங்கர்ஸ்) is a 2025 Tamil heist action comedy directed by and starring Sundar C, with Vadivelu and Catherine Tresa; released 24 April 2025, U/A, 159 minutes, about ₹15 crore gross, streaming on Prime Video.

Ganges

The Ganges (Ganga) is a 2,495 km Himalayan river flowing to the Bay of Bengal, sacred to Hindus, supporting over 400 million people, and the focus of India's Namami Gange cleanup program.

Ganges Catena

Ganges Catena is a chain of pit craters (catena) on Mars at about 2.8°S, 291.3°E, north of Valles Marineris. IAU-approved 1973 from a classical albedo feature name; tectonically modified by wrinkle ridges and later extension.

Ganges Chaos

Ganges Chaos is an IAU-named chaotic terrain on Mars, about 120 km across, on the southern margin of Ganges Chasma at the eastern end of Valles Marineris, formed by collapse and catastrophic groundwater release.

Ganges Delta

Ganges Delta, also Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna or Bengal Delta: world's largest (92,000 km2) and most populous (about 105 million) delta, formed by the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna rivers entering the Bay of Bengal across Bangladesh and West Bengal.

Ganges Delta & Plain

Ganges Delta & Plain, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 709, spans Bangladesh, India, and Nepal from New Delhi to the Ganges Delta, with 11 endemic fish species, within the world's largest delta facing subsidence and sea-level rise.

Ganges Himalayan Foothills

Ganges Himalayan Foothills (FEOW ecoregion 710): Indo-Malay montane freshwater ecoregion on the southern Himalayan slope of the Ganges basin in India, Nepal, and China, with 11 endemic fish species, delineated by topography and climate, draining to the Bay of Bengal.

Ganges Mensa

Ganges Mensa, a Martian mesa (mensa, Latin for table) in Ganges Chasma, eastern Valles Marineris, is an IAU-named interior layered deposit about 136 km across and 4 km tall, of debated lacustrine or volcanic origin.

Gangesha Upadhyaya

Gangesha Upadhyaya (गंगेश उपाध्याय) was a Sanskrit philosopher of Mithila in northeastern India, traditionally regarded as the founder of the Navya Nyaya school of logic.

Gangeyadeva

Gangeyadeva was an 11th-century Kalachuri king of Tripuri in central India who reigned from about 1015 to 1041 and expanded his kingdom into the mid-Gangetic valley.

Ganggangsullae

Ganggangsullae (강강술래) is a Korean folk performance in which women join hands in a circle, sing, and dance under the full moon, mainly on Chuseok night.

Ganghwa Island fortifications

The Ganghwa Island fortifications are the walls, forts, and batteries built on Ganghwado near Seoul to defend the Goryeo and Joseon capitals from the 13th to the 19th century.