Society and history

Dārucīriya

Dārucīriya (दारुचीरिय) is the Pali epithet of Bāhiya Dārucīriya, a merchant-turned-ascetic who became an arahant during one short discourse and was declared foremost in quick comprehension of truth.

Sep 23, 2026

Darugha

The darugha (داروغه) was a Persian governmental office, existing from the Timurid period to the end of the Qajar era, evolving from city ruler toward police chief and market superintendent.

Sep 23, 2026

Darughachi

Darughachi (達魯花赤) was a Mongol official, first a military commander in the conquests, then the Great Khan's commissioner governing conquered areas across the empire for about 150 years.

Oct 22, 2026

Darul Islam (Indonesia)

Darul Islam was an Indonesian Islamist movement led by S.M. Kartosuwirjo, which proclaimed the Islamic State of Indonesia in 1949 and fought the Republic until 1962.

Darul Uloom Deoband (دار العلوم دیوبند)

Darul Uloom Deoband (دار العلوم دیوبند), founded 1866 in Deoband, India, by Qasim Nanautawi and Rashid Ahmad Gangohi, is the leading South Asian Islamic seminary; its dars-i nizami curriculum, community funding, and institutional model spawned the global Deobandi madrasa network.

Daruma doll (だるま)

The daruma doll (だるま), also called fuku-daruma, is a round, weighted Japanese papier-mâché figure of Bodhidharma; buyers paint in its eyes when making a wish.

DARVO

DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim, and Offender) is a perpetrator tactic named by Jennifer Freyd in 1997: deny wrongdoing, attack the accuser's credibility, and claim the victim role. Studied mainly in sexual violence contexts.

Darwin

Darwin is Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882), the English naturalist who proposed evolution by natural selection in On the Origin of Species (1859) after voyaging on HMS Beagle.

Darwin Deason

Darwin Deason (1940–2025) was an American billionaire from Dallas who founded Affiliated Computer Services in 1988 and sold it to Xerox for $6.4 billion in 2010.

Darwin Region languages

Darwin Region languages are the Aboriginal languages of Darwin, Northern Territory, chiefly Larrakia (Gulumoerrgin), all but lost since European settlement, alongside the region's broader multilingual ecology of Kriol, English and dozens of homeland languages.

Darwin–Wedgwood family

Darwin–Wedgwood family: interconnected English dynasties from Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood I, joined by repeated first-cousin marriages; Charles Darwin married cousin Emma Wedgwood in 1839, ten children, inbreeding studies.

Darwin's Dangerous Idea

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, Daniel C. Dennett's 1995 book arguing natural selection is a mindless algorithmic process, a "universal acid" that dissolves traditional concepts of design, mind, and morality, and attacking Gould, Penrose, and Chomsky for smuggled skyhooks.

Darya Dugina (Дарья Александровна Дугина)

Darya Dugina (Дарья Александровна Дугина), also Daria Platonova, Russian journalist and commentator, chief editor of United World International, killed by a car bomb near Moscow on 20 August 2022; Russia blamed Ukrainian services, Ukraine denied.

Sep 23, 2026

Darya Imad Shah

Darya Imad Shah (دریا عماد شاہ) was a sultan of the Imad Shahi dynasty of Berar, one of the Deccan sultanates, who succeeded his father Ala-ud-Din and died in 1561.

Daryā Sāhib

Daryā Sāhib (दरिया साहिब), also Dariya Sahib, was an 18th-century Hindu sant and poet of Bihar, born at Dharkandha, who founded the Dariya Panth and called his doctrine Santmat.

Daryl Abbas

Daryl Abbas is an American Republican politician and attorney who serves as President pro tempore of the New Hampshire Senate, representing District 22 after serving in the House.

Daryl Baldwin

Daryl Baldwin (Kinwalaniihsia), Miami Tribe of Oklahoma citizen and linguist, leads Myaamia language reclamation; founding director of the Myaamia Center at Miami University, 2016 MacArthur Fellow, raised his four children speaking the once-extinct Myaamia language.

Daryl Barron

Daryl Barron is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician, councillor for Donaghmede on Dublin City Council since 2019 and the 359th Lord Mayor of Dublin, elected 29 June 2026 on an 'Our Dublin' platform.

Daryl Campbell (Florida politician)

Daryl Campbell is an American Democratic politician and licensed social worker who has represented Florida House District 99, covering Fort Lauderdale and Lauderhill, since 2022.

Daryl Gates

Daryl Gates was an American police officer and 49th Chief of the LAPD from 1978 to 1992; his tenure ended amid political pressure following the 1992 riots.

Daryl Katz

Daryl Katz is a Canadian businessman from Edmonton who built the Katz Group from a $300,000 pharmacy deal into Canada's second largest pharmacy business and bought the Edmonton Oilers in 2008.

Daryl Schmitt

Daryl Schmitt is an American politician, Republican member of the Indiana Senate representing District 48 since 2024, and a fifth-generation Hoosier farmer who previously served on the Dubois County Council.

Das Kapital

Das Kapital, or Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, is Karl Marx's three-volume analysis of capitalist production; Volume I appeared in 1867 and the rest were edited by Friedrich Engels.

Oct 22, 2026

Dasajati Jataka

Dasajati Jataka (ทศชาติชาดก, "the ten births") is the set of the ten final birth stories of the Bodhisatta, the future Gautama Buddha, each dramatizing one of the ten perfections.

Dasaka

Dasaka (दासक) was a brahmin of Vesāli who studied under the elder Upāli, attained arahantship, and stood second in the line of teachers who handed down the Vinaya.

Dasam Granth (ਦਸਮ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ)

The Dasam Granth (ਦਸਮ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ), or Dasven Padshah Da Granth, is a Sikh scripture attributed to Guru Gobind Singh that supplies daily prayers and Khalsa initiation liturgy.

Dasama

Dasama (दसम) was a lay householder of Aṭṭhakanāgara remembered in the Pali Canon as the interlocutor of the Aṭṭhakanāgara Sutta, where Ānanda teaches him eleven doorways to the deathless.