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Rajni (film)
Rajni (രജനി), Tamil Aval Peyar Rajni, is a 2023 Malayalam-Tamil bilingual murder thriller directed by Vinil Scariah Varghese, starring Kalidas Jayaram, Namitha Pramod, and Priyanka Sai as Rajni, released December 2023.
Rajni Ki Baraat
Rajni Ki Baraat is a 2026 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film, partly in Maithili, directed by Aditya Aman and starring Ulka Gupta as a young woman in Bihar.
Rajnigandha (रजनीगन्धा)
Rajnigandha (रजनीगन्धा) is a 1974 Hindi romantic drama directed by Basu Chatterjee, starring Vidya Sinha and Amol Palekar, which won the Filmfare Award for Best Film in 1975.
Rajnis (Mercurian crater)
Rajnis, also spelled Rainis, is an 80-km-wide impact crater on Mercury at 4.36N, 96.21W, named in 1976 for a Latvian poet (1865-1925); nearby smooth plains may be its impact melt.
Rajon Rondo
Rajon Rondo, born 1986 in Louisville, Kentucky, is an American former basketball player who won NBA titles with the Celtics in 2008 and the Lakers in 2020.
Rajoshi Ghosh
Rajoshi Ghosh is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Hasura with Tanmai Gopal and served as its chief operating officer, building it into India's first open-source unicorn.
Rajoshi Vidyarthi
Rajoshi Vidyarthi, also Piloo Vidyarthi, born Rajoshi Barua in Kolkata, is an Indian actress, singer, theatre performer, and former radio jockey, daughter of Shakuntala Barua and ex-wife of Ashish Vidyarthi, known for Suhani Si Ek Ladki, Akelli, Vedaa, Mandala Murders, and Sarzameen.
Rajpal Yadav (राजपाल नौरंग यादव)
Rajpal Naurang Yadav (राजपाल नौरंग यादव) is an Indian actor and comedian of Hindi cinema, best known for comic roles in Hungama and the Bhool Bhulaiyaa series.
Rajpalsinh Jadav
Rajpalsinh Mahendrasinh Jadav, born in 1982, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented the Panchmahal constituency of Gujarat in the Lok Sabha since 2024, after serving as president of the Panchmahal District Panchayat.
Rajpura Thermal Power Project
The Rajpura Thermal Power Project is a 1,400 MW coal-fired power station near Rajpura in Punjab, India, owned by Nabha Power Limited and commissioned in 2014.
Rajput
Rajput, member of a Hindu warrior-ruling caste of northern, western, and central India organized in patrilineal clans; rose 7th–12th centuries, allied with the Mughals under Akbar, and ruled Rajputana princely states into the modern era.
Rajput painting
Rajput painting is the tradition of Indian court painting produced for Hindu Rajput rulers in Rajasthan, central India, and the Punjab Hills from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
Rajput policy of Akbar
The Rajput policy of Akbar (राजपूत नीति) was his policy from 1562 of binding Rajput rulers to the Mughal Empire through marriage alliances and high office.
Rajput rebellion against Aurangzeb
The Rajput rebellion against Aurangzeb (दुर्गादास राठौड़ का विद्रोह) was the Rathore war of resistance in Marwar from 1679 to 1707, led by Durgadas Rathore, who shielded the infant heir Ajit Singh.
Rajput Rebellion of 1680
The Rajput Rebellion of 1680 (राजपूत विद्रोह) was a rising of the Rathore and Sisodia Rajputs against Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in Rajasthan, 1679 to 1681.
Rajput Regiment
The Rajput Regiment is an Indian Army infantry regiment (raised 1798; formed as 7th Rajput Regiment in 1922 at Fatehgarh), a fixed-class regiment of Rajputs, Gujars, and Muslims, with WWII and 1971 battle honours, distinct from the Rajputana Rifles.
Rajputana
Rajputana, the British-era name for the group of princely states in north-west India (now Rajasthan), comprised 18 states and 2 chiefships under an agent to the governor-general, integrated into Rajasthan between 1948 and 1956.
Rajputana Agency
Rajputana Agency: British political office (1832-1947) managing relations with the princely states of Rajputana under an Agent to the Governor-General, headquartered at Abu; merged into Rajasthan in 1949.
Rajputana famine of 1868–69
The Rajputana famine of 1868–69 was a famine in Rajputana, British India, caused by failed rains and worsened by locusts and epidemics, prompting the 1880 Famine Commission.
Rajputana famine of 1899–1900
The Rajputana famine of 1899–1900 (राजपूताना अकाल), remembered in Rajasthan as the Chhappaniya Akal, was a famine caused by two years of deficient rainfall, affecting 62 million people.
Rajputana Rifles
Rajputana Rifles (RAJ RIF), oldest rifle regiment of the Indian Army, lineage to the 5th Battalion Bombay Sepoys raised January 1775; formed as a group in 1921/22, garrison Delhi Cantonment, war cry Veer Bhogya Vasundhara.
Rajshahi (city)
Rajshahi (রাজশাহী), formerly Rampur Boalia, is a major city on the north bank of the Padma River in northwestern Bangladesh, headquarters of Rajshahi Division and Rajshahi District. Known as the Silk City, it had 553,288 residents in the 2022 census, 30 wards, and 88.88% literacy.
Rajshahi District
Rajshahi District (রাজশাহী জেলা), northwestern Bangladesh, Rajshahi Division; 2,407 sq km, population 2,915,013 (2022); headquarters Rajshahi city, the Silk City and Mango City on the Padma River.
Rajshahi Medical College
Rajshahi Medical College (রাজশাহী মেডিকেল কলেজ), a government medical school in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, established 1958; affiliated with Rajshahi University; 200 MBBS and 50 BDS seats; runs Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.
Rajshahi Zoo
Rajshahi Zoo (Shaheed AHM Kamaruzzaman Central Park and Zoo, later Rajshahi Botanical Garden) is a 1972 municipal zoo in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, run by Rajshahi City Corporation since 1996, now largely animal-empty and slated for redevelopment as a safari park.
Rajshekhar Basu
Rajshekhar Basu (রাজশেখর বসু, 1880–1960), who wrote under the pen name Parashuram, was a Bengali chemist, humorist, lexicographer, and translator of Sanskrit classics including the Mahabharata.
Rajshri Deshpande
Rajshri Deshpande (born 1982) is an Indian actress and activist, known for Angry Indian Goddesses, S Durga, Sacred Games, Manto, and Trial by Fire, and founder of the Nabhangan Foundation for rural development in Maharashtra.
Rajshri Productions
Rajshri Productions (राजश्री प्रोडक्शंस), Mumbai studio founded by Tarachand Barjatya: distribution from 15 August 1947, production wing from 1960. Family Hindi films incl. Dosti, Maine Pyar Kiya, Hum Aapke Hain Koun, Vivah, Uunchai; now also TV, digital, OTT.
Rajsimha
Rajsimha (রাজসিংহ) is a historical novel by the Bengali writer Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, published in 1882. It dramatizes the struggle between Rana Rajsimha of Mewar and the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.
Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman (राजू बन गया जेंटलमैन)
Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman (राजू बन गया जेंटलमैन) is a 1992 Hindi Aziz Mirza film starring Shah Rukh Khan, Juhi Chawla, Amrita Singh, and Nana Patekar, about a small-town engineer's rise in Bombay; music by Jatin–Lalit, distinct from the 2025 Ullu web series.