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Rashidun Caliphate (الخلافة الراشدة)
Rashidun Caliphate (الخلافة الراشدة), the first Islamic caliphate, 632–661 CE, ruled by Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali; called the Rightly-Guided caliphate in Sunni tradition, it saw conquest of the Persian and Roman armies before the Umayyads took power in 661.
Rashim Bali
Lieutenant General Rashim Bali is an Indian Army officer of the Sikh Light Infantry who commanded Leh-based 14 Corps (Fire and Fury Corps) from March 2023 to July 2024, led India at the 18th Corps Commander talks with China, and was named Military Secretary.
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.
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.
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.
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 Bihar-based social-justice party; national party status 2008, withdrawn 2010; led by Lalu with Tejashwi Yadav as national working president.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.
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.
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.
Rasmussen Reports
Rasmussen Reports, an American polling firm founded in 2003 by Scott Rasmussen, uses automated surveys and party weighting; known for a Republican-leaning bias, its daily Presidential Tracking Poll, and its 2024 removal from FiveThirtyEight averages.
Rasraj
Rasraj (रसराज, "king of rasas") is a Hindi honorific for shringar rasa, the amorous sentiment, and a 17th-century Braj treatise on it by the Riti poet Matiram.
Rassam Cylinder
The Rassam Cylinder, also called Prism A, is a ten-sided clay prism inscribed with the annals of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, found at Nineveh in 1854.
Rassam Obelisk
The Rassam Obelisk is a fragmentary basalt obelisk of the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II, found in many pieces at Nimrud in 1853 and reconstructed for the British Museum.
Rassini
Rassini is a Mexican automotive parts company producing suspension springs and brake components for Ford, GM, and Nissan, described as the world's largest maker of light-commercial-vehicle suspension.
Rassundari Devi
Rassundari Devi (रससुन्दरी देवी), born around 1809 in Pabna district, secretly taught herself to read and write and wrote Amar Jiban, the first autobiography by a Bengali woman.
Rastafari
Rastafari, also known as Rastafarianism, is a religious movement that arose in Jamaica in the early 1930s around belief in the divinity of Ethiopia's emperor, Haile Selassie I.
Raster
Raster was a Dutch literary magazine founded in 1967 by writer and poet H.C. ten Berge, giving experimental Dutch and foreign writing a platform for four decades.
Rastislav of Moravia
Rastislav of Moravia, also Rostislav, was prince of Great Moravia from 846 to 870. Installed by Louis the German, he invited the Byzantine mission of Cyril and Methodius in 863.
Rastriya Prajatantra Party (राष्ट्रिय प्रजातन्त्र पार्टी)
Rastriya Prajatantra Party (राष्ट्रिय प्रजातन्त्र पार्टी, RPP), also called National Democratic Party, is Nepal's right-wing pro-monarchy, pro-Hindu-state party, founded in 1990 by former Panchayat leaders and led by Rajendra Lingden.
Rasul Mir
Rasul Mir (رسول میر) was a nineteenth-century Kashmiri romantic poet born at Dooru Shahabad around 1840, known for popularizing the ghazal in Kashmiri and called the John Keats of Kashmir.
Rasulid dynasty
The Rasulid dynasty (بنو رسول) was a Sunni Muslim state of Turkoman origin that ruled Yemen from 1229 to 1454, founded by Nur al-Din Umar and ended by the Tahirids.
Rasulid seizure of power in Yemen
The Rasulid seizure of power in Yemen was Nur al-Din Umar's takeover of the Ayyubid province in 1229, founding a dynasty that ruled until 1454.
Rat (zodiac)
Rat (鼠, shǔ), first sign of the Chinese zodiac's 12-year cycle, branch Zi, active hours 23:00–01:00; Rat years include 2020 and next 2032; Great Race legend, Han-dynasty textual origins, and tested personality claims.