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Rashomon effect
The Rashomon effect is contradictory accounts of the same event by those involved, named after Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon; coined in anthropology by Heider (1988) and in statistics by Breiman (2001).
RaShon Young
RaShon Young is an American Democratic politician representing Florida House District 40 in the Orlando area, elected in a 2025 special election after serving as chief of staff to State Representative LaVon Bracy Davis.
Rasht (رشت)
Rasht (رشت), capital of Gilan province and largest Iranian Caspian coast city, at 5 m elevation between the Zarjub and Gowhar-rud rivers; UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy since 2015, historic silk-trade hub and 1920-21 Socialist Republic of Persia capital.
Rasht embroidery
Rasht embroidery (rashti-duzi, Rasht work) is a Gilan, Iran craft of silk chain stitch worked with a crochet hook on felted wool, combined with inlaid patchwork; peaked under the Qajars, now intangible heritage.
Rashtra Bhasha Prachar Samiti
Rashtrabhasha Prachar Samiti (राष्ट्रभाषा प्रचार समिति) is an all-India organization, founded at Wardha in 1936 on Mahatma Gandhi's initiative, that promotes Hindi through graded examinations.
Rashtra Kavach Om (राष्ट्र कवच ओम)
Rashtra Kavach Om (राष्ट्र कवच ओम), formerly Om: The Battle Within, is a 2022 Hindi action thriller directed by Kapil Verma, starring Aditya Roy Kapur as an amnesiac para commando; it flopped with about ₹7 crore net in India.
Rashtrakuta administrative hierarchy
The Rashtrakuta administrative hierarchy was the tiered system of provincial and local government through which the Rashtrakuta emperors of the Deccan ruled their Indian empire.
Rashtrakuta dynasty
The Rashtrakuta dynasty (राष्ट्रकूट) was a Hindu royal house that ruled the Deccan from 753 to 982, founded by Dantidurga and known for the Kailasa rock temple at Ellora.
Rashtrapati Bhavan (राष्ट्रपति भवन)
Rashtrapati Bhavan (राष्ट्रपति भवन), formerly Viceroy's House, is the official residence of the President of India in New Delhi. Designed by Edwin Lutyens with Herbert Baker, built 1912–1929, it has 340 rooms, a Sanchi-inspired dome, and Amrit Udyan gardens.
Rashtriya Indian Military College
Rashtriya Indian Military College (RIMC), Dehradun, formerly Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College, founded 13 March 1922; Ministry of Defence Category A establishment feeding the NDA, admitting about 25 boys and 10 girls to Class VIII twice yearly.
Rashtriya Janata Dal
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD, राष्ट्रीय जनता दल), Indian political party founded by Lalu Prasad Yadav on 5 July 1997 after splitting from the Janata Dal. Bihar-based social-justice party; national party status 2008, withdrawn 2010; led by Lalu with Tejashwi Yadav as national working president.
Rashtriya Lok Dal (राष्ट्रीय लोक दल)
Rashtriya Lok Dal (राष्ट्रीय लोक दल, RLD), founded by Chaudhary Ajit Singh, is a Uttar Pradesh agrarian party with the Hand Pump symbol, led by Jayant Chaudhary, in the NDA since February 2024, holding 2 Lok Sabha seats after 2024.
Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (राष्ट्रीय माध्यमिक शिक्षा अभियान)
Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA, राष्ट्रीय माध्यमिक शिक्षा अभियान) was India's centrally sponsored secondary education scheme launched March 2009, targeting 75% GER for classes IX-X, universal access by 2017, and subsumed into Samagra Shiksha in 2018.
Rashtriya Rifles (राष्ट्रीय राइफल्स)
Rashtriya Rifles (राष्ट्रीय राइफल्स), the Indian Army's counter-insurgency force raised 1 October 1990 by Gen V.N. Sharma, with 65 battalions and about 70,000 deputed personnel serving mainly in Jammu and Kashmir.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (राष्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघ)
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (राष्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघ, RSS) is a Hindu volunteer organization founded in Nagpur in 1925, widely described as the ideological fountainhead of India's ruling BJP.
Rasidi Ticket
Rasidi Ticket, translated as The Revenue Stamp, is Amrita Pritam's 1976 autobiography, a landmark of frankness recording her Partition displacement, love for Sahir Ludhianvi, and companionship with Imroz.
Rasigan (ரசிகன்)
Rasigan (ரசிகன்), 1994 Tamil romantic action film directed by S. A. Chandrasekhar, starring Vijay and Sanghavi; first film with the Ilaya Thalapathy title, Vijay's singing debut, a commercial hit.
Rasik poetry
Rasik poetry is the love poetry of the Braj Bhasha tradition of North India, addressed to the rasika, a connoisseur of rasa, and codified by Keshavdas around 1600.
Rasika Dugal (रसिका दुग्गल)
Rasika Dugal (रसिका दुग्गल), Indian actress born 1985 in Jamshedpur, FTII-trained; known for Beena Tripathi in Mirzapur, Neeti Singh in Delhi Crime, and films Qissa, Manto, Fairy Folk.
Rasika M. Harshey
Rasika M. Harshey is a molecular biologist and Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is known for describing swarming motility and bacteriophage Mu transposition.
Rasikananda
Rasikananda (1590–1652) was a Vaishnava saint and disciple of Shyamananda Pandit who preached across caste and religion from Gopiballabhpur, converting rulers of Mayurbhanj and founding the Shyamanandi sect.
Rasikpriya
Rasikpriya (रसिकप्रिया, also spelled Rasikapriya) is a 1591 Braj Bhasha treatise on love poetry and poetics by Keshavdas, a foundational text of the ritikavya tradition.
Rasim Özdenören
Rasim Özdenören (1940–2022) was a Turkish short-story writer, novelist, and essayist, a leading figure of post-1970 Turkish storytelling whose more than thirty books explore spiritual dissolution between tradition and modernization.
Raška school
The Raška school (Рашка школа), also called the Raška style, is a medieval Serbian ecclesiastical architectural style flourishing from the late 12th to the late 13th century.
Raskhan
Raskhan (रसखान), born Syed Ibrahim, was a Muslim poet of Braj Bhasha who became a Krishna devotee and wrote devotional poetry in the Krishnaite bhakti tradition.
Raskol
The Raskol (Церковный раскол) was the 17th-century split in the Russian Orthodox Church over liturgical reforms, whose opponents, the Old Believers, were anathematized in 1667.
Raslila
Raslila (रासलीला), also written Ras Lila, is a devotional folk drama of North India's Braj region in which episodes from Krishna's life are enacted through dance, music, and song.
Rasmus Birkeland
Rasmus Ingvald Birkeland (1888–1972), Norwegian sailor from Austevoll, Bergens Seilforening; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold in 12 metres (1907 Rating) aboard Atlanta, unopposed; brother of Halvor Olai Birkeland.
Rasmus Dahlin
Rasmus Dahlin (born 2000, Lidköping, Sweden) is a Swedish NHL defenseman and captain of the Buffalo Sabres, drafted first overall in 2018, the second Sweden-born No. 1 pick after Mats Sundin; 2025-26 Norris finalist with 74 points.
Rasmus Fensholt
Rasmus Fensholt is a Danish remote-sensing scientist and professor of Geography at the University of Copenhagen, known for satellite-based mapping of individual trees and their carbon.