Society and history

Bhama Shah

Bhama Shah (भामाशाह) was a minister and financier of Maharana Pratap of Mewar, remembered for placing his fortune at the Rana's disposal against the Mughal Empire.

Bhamo Sayadaw (Bhaddanta Kumarabhivamsa)

Bhamo Sayadaw, born Bhaddanta Kumarabhivamsa, was a Burmese Theravada monk who chaired Myanmar's State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee from 2010 until his death in May 2023 at age 94.

Oct 22, 2026

Bhanaka tradition

The bhāṇaka tradition was the system of specialist reciter-monks who memorized and passed on early Buddhist texts orally until the Pali canon was written down in Sri Lanka in the 1st century BCE.

Bhandi

Bhandi (भण्डि) was a cousin, minister, and general of the Indian emperor Harshavardhana, known from Banabhatta's Harshacharita; he led the cavalry that routed the Malwa army in 606 CE.

Bhangi Misl

The Bhangi Misl (ਭੰਗੀ ਮਿਸਲ) was a Sikh misl of eighteenth-century Punjab, at its peak the most powerful in territory and manpower, with its capital at Amritsar.

Bhanja dynasty

The Bhanja dynasty (ଭଞ୍ଜ ବଂଶ) was a family of ruling dynasties of the interior uplands of Odisha, India, whose descendants survived as princely houses into the twentieth century.

Bhanwari Devi (भंवरी देवी)

Bhanwari Devi (भंवरी देवी), Rajasthani saathin social worker gang-raped in 1992 for stopping a child marriage; her case led to the Vishakha guidelines and India's POSH Act 2013.

Bhāradvāja Suddhika

Bhāradvāja Suddhika (सुद्धिकभारद्वाज) was a Brahmin of the Bhāradvāja clan in the Pali Canon whose dialogue with the Buddha on purity, SN 7.7, ends with his ordination as an arahant.

Bharat Adivasi Party (भारत आदिवासी पार्टी)

Bharat Adivasi Party (भारत आदिवासी पार्टी, BAP), an ECI-recognized State Party based in Dungarpur, Rajasthan, formed by a split from the Bharatiya Tribal Party; it won four Rajasthan Assembly seats in 2023 and one Lok Sabha seat in 2024.

Bharat Bhushan Tiwari

Bharat Bhushan Tiwari (भरत भूषण तिवारी), 28, of Bilauti village, Bhojpur, Bihar, died in a contested June 17, 2026 police encounter after a livestreamed standoff, prompting a judicial inquiry and murder FIR.

Sep 19, 2026

Bharat Desai

Bharat Desai (ભરત દેસાઈ) is an Indian-American entrepreneur who co-founded the IT outsourcing firm Syntel in 1980 with $2,000 and sold it to Atos for $3.4 billion in 2018.

Sep 19, 2026

Bharat Goenka

Bharat Goenka (भरत गोयनका) is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Tally Solutions, maker of Tally accounting software, and received the Padma Shri in 2020.

Bharat Mata (भारत माता)

Bharat Mata, "Mother India," also called Bharathamba, is the personification of India as a mother goddess, usually shown as a saffron-clad woman who arose in the nineteenth century to inspire Indian nationalism.

Bharat Rashtra Samithi

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), formerly Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), is K. Chandrashekar Rao's Hyderabad-based party: founded 2001 for Telangana statehood, renamed October 2022, governed Telangana 2014-2023 (63, 88, then 39 seats).

Bharat Ratna (भारत रत्न)

Bharat Ratna (भारत रत्न), India's highest civilian award, instituted 1954; conferred for exceptional service in any field, recommended by the PM to the President. First awardees Rajagopalachari, Radhakrishnan, Raman; five conferred in 2024.

Sep 27, 2026

Bharat Singh Chaudhary

Bharat Singh Chaudhary (born 1959) is an Indian politician from Uttarakhand and BJP member, elected from Rudraprayag in 2017 and 2022 and made a cabinet minister under Pushkar Singh Dhami.

Sep 27, 2026

Bharat Singh Kushwah

Bharat Singh Kushwah, born in 1970, is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has represented Gwalior in the Lok Sabha since 2024.

Bharata tribe

The Bharata tribe (भरत) was a Rigvedic tribe located on the Sarasvati and Yamuna rivers, whose chief Sudas won the Battle of the Ten Kings; its name later gave India the Sanskrit name Bharatavarsha.

Oct 22, 2026

Bharatbarsha

Bharatbarsha (ভারতবর্ষ) was an illustrated Bengali monthly literary magazine launched in Calcutta in 1913 by Dwijendralal Roy, later edited by Jaladhar Sen, publishing Rabindranath Tagore and Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay.

Sep 27, 2026

Bharatbhai Sutariya

Bharatbhai Sutariya is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party, elected to the Lok Sabha from Amreli, Gujarat, in 2024 after serving as district panchayat president.

Bharatchandra Ray

Bharatchandra Ray (ভারতচন্দ্র রায়), 1712–1760, was a Bengali poet at the court of Maharaja Krishnachandra Ray of Krishnanagar, best known for the poem Annadamangal around 1752.

Bharatendu Harishchandra

Bharatendu Harishchandra (भारतेन्दु हरिश्चन्द्र, 1850–1885) was a Hindi poet, playwright, and literary editor of Banaras, remembered as the father of modern Hindi literature and of Hindi theater.

Bharati Krishna Tirtha

Bharati Krishna Tirtha (1884–1960), born Venkatraman, was the 143rd Shankaracharya of the Govardhan Matha at Puri from 1925, known as the author of Vedic Mathematics.

Bharati Tirtha

Bharati Tirtha, born Sitarama Anjaneyulu in 1951, is the 36th Jagadguru of the Sringeri Sharada Peetham in Karnataka, coronated in 1989 and regarded as a foremost Vedanta scholar.

Bharati Tirtha I

Bharati Tirtha I was the 11th Jagadguru of the Sringeri Sharada Peetham, reigning from 1333 to 1380; a 1346 inscription records a Vijayanagara land grant to him at Sringeri.

Bharatiya Jana Sangh (भारतीय जन संघ)

Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), Hindu nationalist political party founded in India in 1951 by the RSS with Syama Prasad Mookerjee and former Hindu Mahasabha leaders; precursor of the BJP; won 3 Lok Sabha seats in 1952 and 4 in 1957, merged into the Janata Party in 1977.

Bharatiya Janata Party – Kerala (भारतीय जनता पार्टी – केरल)

Bharatiya Janata Party – Kerala (भारतीय जनता पार्टी – केरल), the Kerala unit of the BJP/NDA, a marginal third force outside the LDF–UDF two-front system; first Assembly seat 2016, first Lok Sabha seat (Thrissur) 2024, and three seats with 11.42% vote share in 2026.

Bharatiya Janata Party – Tamil Nadu

Bharatiya Janata Party – Tamil Nadu: the BJP's state unit in Tamil Nadu, never in state government; 4 assembly seats (2.62%) in 2021, 11% Lok Sabha vote share in 2024, allied with the AIADMK in the NDA for 2026.

Bharatiya Janata Party (भारतीय जनता पार्टी)

Bharatiya Janata Party (भारतीय जनता पार्टी), India's Hindu nationalist ruling party founded April 6, 1980 as successor to the Bharatiya Jana Sangh; RSS-rooted Hindutva ideology, NDA coalition led by Modi, 303 seats in 2019, 240 in 2024.