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Jaga invasion of Kongo
The Jaga invasion of Kongo was a 1568 attack that temporarily overthrew King Alvaro I, who fled before Portuguese forces under Francisco de Gouveia restored him.
Jagadam (జగదం)
Jagadam (జగదం) is Sukumar's 2007 Telugu action film starring Ram Pothineni as Seenu, a youth drawn into gang violence; a box-office failure that later became a cult classic, with music by Devi Sri Prasad.
Jagaddala
Jagaddala (জগদ্দল), fully Jagaddala Mahavihara, was a Buddhist monastery and center of higher learning in north Bengal, founded by the Pala king Ramapala in the eleventh century.
Jagaddala monastery
Jagaddala monastery (জগদ্দল বিহার), also called Jagaddala Mahavihara, was a Buddhist monastic university in north Bengal founded by the Pala king Ramapala, a leading center of Sanskrit Buddhist scholarship.
Jagadeesh S. Moodera
Jagadeesh S. Moodera, also published as J. S. Moodera, is an experimental condensed matter physicist at MIT known for the 1995 observation of room-temperature tunnel magnetoresistance.
Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari
Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari (జగదేక వీరుడు అతిలోక సుందరి, JVAS) is a 1990 Telugu fantasy film by K. Raghavendra Rao starring Chiranjeevi and Sridevi, with Ilaiyaraaja's music, a ₹15-crore gross, and a 2025 re-release.
Jagadese J. Vittal
Jagadese J. Vittal is an Indian-born solid-state chemist and Emeritus Professor at the National University of Singapore, known for the solid-state [2+2] photocycloaddition and metal–organic frameworks.
Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Narendracharya (जगद्गुरु रामानन्दाचार्य नरेन्द्राचार्य)
Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Narendracharya (जगद्गुरु रामानन्दाचार्य नरेन्द्राचार्य) is a householder guru of the Ramanandi tradition, enthroned in Ayodhya in 2005 and based at Nanij Dham in Maharashtra.
Jagadhatri (TV series)
Jagadhatri (জগদ্ধাত্রী), Zee Bangla Bengali romantic thriller drama premiering 29 August 2022, stars Ankita Mallick as undercover officer JAS and Soumyadeep Mukherjee; remade in Hindi on Zee TV in 2025 with Sonakshi Batra.
Jagadish
Jagadish (ജഗദീഷ്), full name P. V. Jagadish Kumar, is a Malayalam film actor and screenwriter, best known for the comedy role of Appukuttan in In Harihar Nagar (1990).
Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia
Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia, born 1964, is an Indian politician elected in 2024 to the Lok Sabha from Coochbehar, West Bengal, as a Trinamool Congress candidate.
Jagadish Chandra Bose (জগদীশ চন্দ্র বসু)
Jagadish Chandra Bose (জগদীশ চন্দ্র বসু), Indian physicist and plant physiologist (1858-1937); demonstrated 60 GHz wireless transmission in Calcutta in 1894-95, invented the crescograph, founded Bose Institute, and largely refused patents.
Jagadish filmography
Jagadish (P. V. Jagadish Kumar), Malayalam actor and scriptwriter, debuted in My Dear Kuttichathan (1984), India's first 3D film. About 380 films, famous for In Harihar Nagar and Godfather comedies, later award-winning supporting roles in Purusha Pretham and Marco.
Jagadish Shettar
Jagadish Shettar is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party, a member of the Lok Sabha for Belgaum since 2024 and a former Chief Minister of Karnataka.
JAGAL Gas Pipeline
The JAGAL (Jamal-Gas-Anbindungsleitung, "Yamal Gas Connection Pipeline") is a 338-kilometer German gas pipeline built by WINGAS from 1995 to 1999, now partly converted to carry hydrogen.
Jagame Thandhiram (ஜகமே தந்திரம்)
Jagame Thandhiram (ஜகமே தந்திரம்), also released as Suruli, is a 2021 Tamil action crime drama directed by Karthik Subbaraj, starring Dhanush as gangster Suruli, released on Netflix 18 June 2021.
Jagamohana Ramayana
The Jagamohana Ramayana (ଜଗମୋହନ ରାମାୟଣ), also known as the Dandi Ramayana after its meter, is an Odia retelling of the Ramayana composed by Balarama Dasa around AD 1500, a foundational work of Odia literature.
Jagan Nath Azad
Jagan Nath Azad (جگن ناتھ آزاد, 1918–2004) was an Indian Urdu poet, critic, and scholar of Allama Iqbal who migrated to Delhi at Partition and wrote over 50 books.
Jagannath (ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ)
Jagannath (ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ), "Lord of the Universe," is a Hindu deity regarded as a form of Krishna and Vishnu, worshipped at the 12th-century Jagannath Temple in Puri, Odisha, famous for its annual Rath Yatra chariot festival.
Jagannath Chattopadhyay
Jagannath Chattopadhyay, BJP politician and former journalist, is a West Bengal cabinet minister for Higher Education and Technical Education, elected in 2026 from Suri, Birbhum, with 124,243 votes.
Jagannath Coal Mine
Jagannath Coal Mine, also called the Jagannath Open Cast Project, is an opencast coal mine in the Talcher Coalfield in Angul district, Odisha, India, producing coal since 1970-71.
Jagannath Sarkar (BJP politician)
Jagannath Sarkar, born 1963, is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has represented Ranaghat, West Bengal in the Lok Sabha since 2019.
Jagannath Temple, Puri
The Jagannath Temple, also called Shree Mandira, is a 12th-century Hindu temple in Puri, Odisha, India, dedicated to Jagannath, a form of Vishnu, and one of Hinduism's four Char Dham pilgrimage sites.
Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra
Jagannath, Balabhadra, and Subhadra are the three wooden deities of the Jagannath Temple at Puri, Odisha, carved in abstract, limbless form and periodically replaced in the Nabakalebara ceremony.
Jagannatha Dasa
Jagannatha Dasa (ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ ଦାସ) was a sixteenth-century Odia Vaishnava poet and mystic, born around 1490, who flourished at the court of Gajapati Prataparudra Deva and wrote the Odia Bhagavata.
Jagannatha Panditaraja
Jagannatha Panditaraja (पण्डितराज जगन्नाथ) was a 17th-century Sanskrit poet, critic, and scholar at the court of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, who wrote the poetics treatise Rasagangadhara.
Jagannatha Samrat
Jagannatha Samrat (जगन्नाथ सम्राट) was an Indian Sanskrit astronomer and mathematician, guru to Sawai Jai Singh II of Amber, who translated Ptolemy's Almagest into Sanskrit.
Jagapathi Babu
Jagapathi Babu (జగపతి బాబు), born Veeramachaneni Jagapati Rao Chowdary in 1962, is an Indian actor known for 1990s Telugu lead roles and later villain parts in Legend and Salaar.
Jagat Gosain (मानवती बाई)
Jagat Gosain (मानवती बाई), also called Jodh Bai or Manmati, was a Marwar Rathore princess, daughter of Raja Udai Singh, wife of Emperor Jahangir married in 1592, and mother of Emperor Shah Jahan; she died at Agra in 1619.
Jagat Narula
Jagat Narula is an Indian-American cardiologist known for imaging vulnerable heart plaques and describing apoptosis in heart failure, and president of the World Heart Federation since 2025.