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Sangeet Swayamvar
Sangeet Swayamvar (संगीत स्वयंवर) is a classic Marathi musical play by Krishnaji Prabhakar Khadilkar, with music by Bhaskarbuwa Bakhale, first performed in 1916 by the Gandharva Natak Mandali.
Sangeeta Balwant
Sangeeta Balwant is an Indian politician and Bharatiya Janata Party member representing Uttar Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha since 2024, after two terms in the state assembly.
Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo
Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented Bolangir, Odisha, in the Lok Sabha since 1998, winning a fifth term in 2024.
Sangeeta N. Bhatia
Sangeeta N. Bhatia is an American biomedical engineer and physician, the Wilson Professor at MIT, known for human microlivers and nanoparticles that diagnose cancer through a urine test.
Sangeeta Yadav
Sangeeta Yadav is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party, serving as a national secretary of the party and as a Rajya Sabha member for Uttar Pradesh since 2022.
Sangeeth Prathap
Sangeeth Prathap (സംഗീത് പ്രതാപ്), Malayalam actor and film editor; known as Amal Davis in Premalu (2024), Kerala State Award-winning editor for Little Miss Rawther, lead debut It's a Medical Miracle (2026).
Sangeeth Sobhan
Sangeeth Sobhan (Sangeeth Shobhan, సంగీత్ శోభన్), Telugu actor born 1996, son of director Sobhan; known as DD in Mad and Mad Square, Oka Chinna Family Story, Raakaasa.
Sangeetha Krish (சங்கீதா கிருஷ்)
Sangeetha Krish (சங்கீதா கிருஷ்), born 1978 in Chennai, is an Indian actress, model, dancer and playback singer in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam cinema, best known for Khadgam, Pithamagan, Uyir and Dhanam, a two-time Filmfare Award South and Tamil Nadu State Film Award winner, married to singer Krish in 2009.
Sanger (Venusian crater)
Sanger is an 83.60-km-wide impact crater on Venus at 33.80N, 288.60E, IAU-named in 1994 for Margaret Sanger, the American medical researcher; it is the largest crater on Beta Regio.
Sanger sequencing
Sanger sequencing, also called chain-termination or dideoxy sequencing, is a low-throughput DNA sequencing method using chain-terminating dideoxynucleotides; developed by Frederick Sanger in 1977, used for the Human Genome Project, ~99.99% accurate, reads 500-1,500 bp.
Sangge
Sangge (桑哥) was a fiscal chancellor of the Yuan dynasty who rose under Emperor Kublai to become the court's dominant minister for roughly four years, until his impeachment and execution.
Sangguniang Kabataan
Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) is the Philippine barangay youth council: a chairperson and seven kagawad aged 18 to 24, funded by 10% of the barangay fund, governed by RA 10742 and RA 11768, now with five-year terms under RA 12326 and elections next in November 2028.
Sanggyeong
Sanggyeong, or Sanggyeong Yongcheonbu, was the capital of the Balhae kingdom near Ning'an, Heilongjiang, China, its seat of government for about 130 years until 926.
Sangh Parivar
Sangh Parivar, "family of the Sangh": network of Hindu nationalist organizations rooted in the RSS (founded 1925), including the VHP (1964), BJP, ABVP, and BMS, united by Hindutva ideology.
Sangha
Sangha, also spelled Samgha, is the Buddhist community, literally "assembly", and one of the Three Jewels, meaning either the ordained monastic order or noble practitioners.
Sangha Act of 1902
The Sangha Act of 1902 was Siam's first modern statute governing the Buddhist monkhood, promulgated by King Chulalongkorn and creating a centralized national sangha hierarchy.
Sangha of Ayutthaya
The Sangha of Ayutthaya (สงฆ์อยุธยา) was the Buddhist monkhood of the Ayutthaya kingdom, a national hierarchy under a Sangharaja that fell with the kingdom in 1767.
Sangha of Lan Na
The Sangha of Lan Na (คณะสงฆ์ล้านนา) was the Buddhist monkhood of the Lan Na kingdom, centered on Chiang Mai from the kingdom's founding in 1296–97.
Sangha of Lan Xang
The Sangha of Lan Xang (ລ້ານຊ້າງ) was the community of Buddhist monks organized under the kings of Lan Xang, founded by Fa Ngum in 1353.
Sangha of Pagan
The Sangha of Pagan was the Buddhist monkhood patronized by the kings of Pagan, the first classical Burmese kingdom, holding tax-exempt lands until the British conquest of 1885.
Sangha of Siam
The Sangha of Siam (คณะสงฆ์) was the state-supervised Buddhist monkhood of Siam, headed by a king-appointed Sangharaja and centralized by the 1902 Sangha Administration Act.
Sangha official system
The Sangha official system (僧官制度) was the practice, beginning in the Northern and Southern dynasties, of governments appointing monks as officials to supervise the Buddhist clergy.
Sangha Trinational
Sangha Trinational is a cross-border protected area in the Congo Basin where Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and the Republic of Congo meet, inscribed by UNESCO in 2012.
Sangha-Nouabalé-Ndoki
Sangha-Nouabalé-Ndoki, Ramsar site 1858 in northwestern Congo (1,525,000 ha, designated 2009), a wetland complex on the Sangha and Ndoki rivers centered on Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park within the Sangha Tri-National UNESCO World Heritage area.
Saṅghabhadra
Saṅghabhadra (眾賢, Zhongxian) was a fifth-century Indian Abhidharma master of the Kāśmīra Sarvāstivāda-Vaibhāṣika school, best known as the author of the Nyāyānusāraśāstra, a treatise defending Vaibhāṣika doctrine against Vasubandhu's criticisms.
Sanghamitta
Sanghamitta (संघमित्रा) was, by Sri Lankan chronicles, a daughter of Emperor Ashoka and a Buddhist nun who brought a Bodhi tree sapling to Sri Lanka.
Saṅghapāla
Saṅghapāla (सङ्घपाल) is a 5th-century Theravāda elder of Sri Lanka, remembered as the initiator named in the epilogue of Buddhaghosa's Visuddhimagga and, in later chronicle tradition, as Buddhaghosa's teacher.
Sanghar
Sanghar (Sindhi: سانگھڙ) is a city in Sindh, Pakistan, headquarters of Sanghar District and Taluka, about 267 km from Karachi; a canal-irrigated agricultural center, top district producer of wheat and cotton, 74,112 city residents in 2023.
Sangharsh (संघर्ष) (1999 film)
Sangharsh (संघर्ष) is a 1999 Hindi psychological thriller directed by Tanuja Chandra, starring Akshay Kumar, Preity Zinta, and Ashutosh Rana as child-sacrifice fanatic Lajja Shankar Pandey; a CBI officer recruits an imprisoned genius to catch a serial child killer.
Sanghi Industries
Sanghi Industries was an Indian cement manufacturer based at Sanghipuram in Kutch, Gujarat, founded in 1985 and acquired by Ambuja Cements in 2023 before merging into it in 2026.