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Ramachandra Guha

Ramachandra Guha (born 1958, Dehradun) is an Indian historian and biographer based in Bengaluru, author of The Unquiet Woods, India After Gandhi, and the two-volume Gandhi biography; Fukuoka Prize 2015.

Ramachandran Ottapathu

Ramachandran Ottapathu, known as Ram, is a Botswana-based retail executive and chartered accountant who has served as chief executive of Choppies, Botswana's largest retail chain, since 2004.

Ramacharita

Ramacharita (रामचरित) is a Sanskrit court epic composed by Sandhyakara Nandi under the Pala king Madanapala, telling the Ramayana and the restoration of Pala power in Bengal simultaneously.

Ramacharitam of Sandhyakara Nandin

Ramacharitam (रामचरितम्) is a 12th-century Sanskrit court epic by Sandhyakara Nandin that recounts Rama's story and, in the same verses, the history of Bengal's Pala dynasty.

Ramadan (رمضان)

Ramadan (رمضان) is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, when Muslims fast from dawn to dusk; it commemorates the Qurʾān's revelation and ends with Eid al-Fitr.

Ramadan al-Suwayhli

Ramadan al-Suwayhli (رمضان السويحلي) was a Tripolitanian leader who resisted the Italian occupation of Libya, won the Battle of Qardabiya in 1915, and founded the Tripolitanian Republic in 1918.

Rāmadeva

Rāmadeva (रामदेव), known as Ramdevji, Ramdev Pir, or Baba Ramdev, is a saint of Pokhran in Rajasthan who took samadhi in 1459 and is venerated by Hindus and Muslims.

Ramagupta

Ramagupta (रामगुप्त) was a Gupta ruler in India, traditionally the eldest son and brief successor of Samudragupta, known from the play Devichandraguptam, copper coins, and a Vidisha inscription.

Ramakrishna (রামকৃষ্ণ পরমহংস)

Ramakrishna (রামকৃষ্ণ পরমহংস), born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay, was a Bengali Hindu priest at the Dakshineswar Kali temple near Kolkata who taught that all faiths lead to the same goal.

Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar

Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar (रामकृष्ण गोपाळ भांडारकर) was an Indian Sanskrit scholar and social reformer, a leader of the Prarthana Samaj and Vice-Chancellor of Bombay University from 1893.

Ramakrishna Mission (রামকৃষ্ণ মিশন)

Ramakrishna Mission (রামকৃষ্ণ মিশন) is an Indian religious organization founded by Swami Vivekananda on 1 May 1897 to carry out social service, education, and medical work as spiritual discipline.

Ramakrishna Tirtha

Ramakrishna Tirtha (श्री रामकृष्ण तीर्थ) was the 42nd Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath at Joshimath, holding the seat from 1766 to 1776, the last holder before a 165-year vacancy.

Rāmakṛṣṇa Paramahaṃsa

Rāmakṛṣṇa Paramahaṃsa (রামকৃষ্ণ পরমহংস), born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay in 1836, was a Bengali Hindu mystic and priest of the Dakshineswar Kālī temple who taught Swami Vivekananda and died in 1886.

Ramalinga Raju (బైర్రాజు రామలింగ రాజు)

B. Ramalinga Raju is the Indian businessman who founded Satyam Computer Services in 1987, built it into India's fourth-largest software exporter, and confessed in 2009 to India's largest corporate fraud.

Ramalinga Reddy

Ramalinga Reddy, born in 1953 in Bengaluru, is an Indian National Congress politician, an eight-time Karnataka legislator for B.T.M. Layout, and a current state minister.

Ramalinga Swamigal

Ramalinga Swamigal, known as Vallalar, was a Tamil poet-saint of the 19th century who taught compassion for all living beings and founded a feeding house at Vadalur.

Raman Raghav

Raman Raghav (1929–1995), aka Sindhi Talwai or 'Psycho Raman', was an Indian serial killer who bludgeoned homeless victims in 1960s Bombay; arrested 1968, diagnosed schizophrenic, death sentence commuted to life in 1987.

Raman Singh (रमन सिंह)

Raman Singh (रमन सिंह), born 1952, is a BJP leader, three-term Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh (2003–2018), known as 'chawal baba' for PDS rice reforms, now Speaker of the state assembly.

Raman Skirmunt

Raman Skirmunt (Раман Скірмунт, 1868 to 1939) was a Belarusian statesman and landowner who chaired the Belarusian National Committee and was named to head the People's Secretariat in 1918.

Ramana Maharshi

Ramana Maharshi, also known as Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, was a Hindu sage and yogi (1879–1950) of Tiruvannamalai, India, known for self-enquiry, the method of asking "Who am I?"

Ramananda

Ramananda, also Ramanand (Hindi रामानंद), was a Vaishnava devotional teacher associated with Varanasi, remembered as founder of the Ramanandi sampradaya, North India's largest monastic order.

Ramanandi Sampradaya

The Ramanandi Sampradaya (रामानन्दी सम्प्रदाय), also called the Ramavat sampradaya, is a Vaishnava order devoted to Ram, traced to the saint Ramananda and today North India's largest devotional community.

Ramanatha

Ramanatha, also called Vira Ramanatha, was a Hoysala king of southern India who ruled the kingdom's southern, Tamil-speaking portion from 1253 to 1295, feuding with his brother Narasimha III.

Ramanbhai Patel

Ramanbhai B. Patel (1925–2001) was an Indian pharmaceutical entrepreneur who co-founded Cadila Laboratories in Ahmedabad with Indravadan A. Modi in 1952, building the business that became Zydus Cadila.

Ramanbhai Solanki

Ramanbhai Solanki is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who serves as a cabinet minister in Gujarat with the Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs portfolio.

Ramanuj Gopalan

Ramanuj Gopalan is Partner and General Counsel at Elevation Capital, an Indian venture capital firm, heading its legal function across investments, exits, and portfolio governance since 2015.

Ramanuja

Ramanuja (1017–1137 CE), Tamil Sri Vaishnava acharya who systematized Vishishtadvaita Vedanta, wrote the Sri Bhashya and Vedartha-sangraha, and opened temple worship to all castes.

Ramapala

Ramapala (रामपाल) was a king of the Pala dynasty of Bengal and Bihar, reigning from about 1082 to 1124 and remembered as the dynasty's last important ruler.

Rāmaputta

Uddaka Rāmaputta was an ascetic teacher near Rājagaha whom the Buddhist canon records as the second and final teacher of the Bodhisatta Gotama before his awakening.

Ramarajabhushanudu

Ramarajabhushanudu (రామరాజభూషణుడు), also known as Bhattumurti, was a Telugu poet who wrote at the court of Ramaraya at Vijayanagara from about 1550 to 1590; his best-known work is Vasucharitramu.