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BharatPe

BharatPe, the trade name of Resilient Innovations Private Limited, is an Indian fintech company founded in 2018, based in New Delhi, serving about 17 million small merchants with zero-fee UPI payments and loans.

Bharatpur State

Bharatpur State (भरतपुर रियासत) was a Jat-ruled princely state in eastern Rajputana, formalized under Badan Singh in the 1720s and later made an independent power by Maharajah Suraj Mal.

Bharatshet Gogawale

Bharatshet Gogawale is an Indian Shiv Sena politician who serves as a minister in the Government of Maharashtra and has represented the Mahad constituency in the state assembly since 2009.

Bharatsinhji Dabhi

Bharatsinhji Shankarji Dabhi, born 1955, in Gujarat, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented Patan in the Lok Sabha since 2019.

Bharavi

Bharavi (भारवि) was a Sanskrit court poet of southern India, probably of the sixth century, whose epic the Kiratarjuniya ranks among the five great classical Sanskrit poems.

Bharhut stupa

The Bharhut stupa (भरहुत स्तूप) was a Buddhist stupa at Bharhut in Madhya Pradesh, begun under the Mauryas, whose carved railings are now in the Indian Museum, Kolkata.

Bharmal

Bharmal (भरमल), also written Bihari Mal, was the Kachwaha Rajput ruler of Amber from 1547, first to marry his daughter to the Mughal emperor Akbar in 1562.

Bharmal of Amber

Bharmal (भारमल) was a Rajput ruler of Amber who submitted to Mughal emperor Akbar in 1562, the first Rajput ruler to give a daughter in marriage to a Mughal emperor.

Bharti Pardhi

Bharti Pardhi, born 1968, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician serving since 2024 as the Member of the Lok Sabha for Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh.

Bhartrhari

Bhartrhari (भर्तृहरि) was a Sanskrit grammarian and philosopher of language, author of the Vakyapadiya, an authority on word and meaning, probably of the fifth century CE.

Bhartruhari Mahtab

Bhartruhari Mahtab is an Indian politician and Member of the Bharatiya Janata Party representing Cuttack, Odisha. Born in 1957, he has held the seat since 1998 and served as Pro-tem Speaker.

Bharuci

Bharuci (भारुचि) was an early Indian jurist and Sanskrit commentator, placed around 500 to 650 CE, whose Manu-Shastra-Vivarana commentary on the Manusmriti survives for books 6 to 12.

Bhashya

Bhashya (भाष्य) is an extensive Sanskrit commentary explaining a sutra text, the standard form of Sanskrit philosophy, exemplified by Patanjali's Mahabhashya and Shankara's Brahmasutra-bhashya, with rival bhashyas defining Vedanta schools.

Bhashyam Rama Krishna

Bhashyam Rama Krishna (భాష్యం రామకృష్ణ), TDP educationist and founder of Bhashyam Educational Institutions (163 branches, ~1.6 lakh students), elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Andhra Pradesh in 2026 for the 2026-2032 term; distinct from other Bhashyam-named figures.

Bhaskar Bhagare

Bhaskar Bhagare is an Indian politician from Maharashtra, a Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) member who has represented Dindori in the Lok Sabha since 2024.

Bhaskar Pandit

Bhaskar Pandit (भास्कर पंडित), or Bhaskar Ram Kolhatkar, was a Maratha general under Raghuji Bhonsle who led the first Maratha invasions of Bengal and was assassinated in 1744.

Bhaskara Ravi Varman I

Bhaskara Ravi Varman I (ഭാസ്കര രവി വർമൻ) was a Chera Perumal king who ruled from Mahodayapuram in Kerala in the late 10th and early 11th centuries.

Bhaskararaya

Bhaskararaya (भास्करराय), also called Bhasuranandanatha or Bhaskararaya Makhin, was an 18th-century Sanskrit polymath and tantric scholar in South India, known for the Saubhagya Bhaskara commentary on the Lalita Sahasranama.

Bhaskaravarman

Bhaskaravarman (भास्करवर्मन्) was a seventh-century king of Kamarupa in present-day Assam who brought the Varman dynasty to its height through his alliance with Emperor Harshavardhana.

Bhaskaravarman's embassy to Tang China

Bhaskaravarman's embassy to Tang China (भास्करवर्मन का दूत मंडल) was a 7th-century diplomatic exchange between Harsha's India and Taizong's China, opened through the monk Xuanzang.

Bhat (भट्ट)

Bhat (भट्ट, Sanskrit bhaṭṭa) is a South Asian surname and title meaning lord or learned one, borne by Brahmin, bard, and Muslim communities; Bhatt ranks about 2,021st worldwide with roughly 271,000 bearers, concentrated in India and Nepal.

Bhat family

Bhat family (भट घराणा), the Chitpavan Brahmin house of Poona that held the hereditary peshwa-ship of the Maratha state from Balaji Vishwanath (1713–1720) and ruled de facto after 1749; distinct from the bardic bhat caste.

Bhatarka

Bhatarka (भटार्क) was a general who took advantage of Gupta decline to found the Maitraka dynasty, ruling Gujarat and Saurashtra from Valabhi in the late fifth century.

Bhati clan of Jaisalmer

The Bhati clan of Jaisalmer (भाटी) was a Rajput dynasty of claimed Yadava descent that ruled Jaisalmer in western Rajasthan, founded by Rawal Jaisal in the twelfth century.

Bhatta Lakshmidhara

Bhatta Lakshmidhara (भट्ट लक्ष्मीधर) was a twelfth-century Indian jurist and minister at the court of Govindachandra, king of Kanyakubja, who compiled the Krityakalpataru, the oldest surviving digest of Hindu law.

Bhaṭṭa Nīlakaṇṭha

Bhaṭṭa Nīlakaṇṭha (भट्ट नीलकण्ठ) was a Sanskrit dharmaśāstra author of Paithan who settled in Benares and composed the twelve-part legal digest Bhagavantabhāskara around 1610 to 1650.

Bhattadeva

Bhattadeva (ভট্টদেৱ), born Vaikunthanatha Bhattacharya, was an Assamese Vaishnavite scholar, 1558 to 1638, regarded as the father of Assamese prose; his Katha Bhagavata pioneered Assamese prose writing.

Bhattanayaka

Bhaṭṭanāyaka (भट्टनायक) was a Kashmiri Sanskrit aesthetician of the late ninth and tenth centuries who relocated aesthetic experience from the literary work to the spectator.

Bhauma-Kara dynasty

The Bhauma-Kara dynasty (भौम-कर) was a Buddhist dynasty that ruled coastal Odisha from the eighth to the tenth century, notable for its sequence of ruling queens.

Bhausaheb Rajaram Wakchaure

Bhausaheb Rajaram Wakchaure, born 1950, is an Indian Shiv Sena politician who represents Shirdi in the Lok Sabha, having earlier served from 2009 to 2014.