Haridas
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Haridas or Haridasa may refer to:
  • Haridas (1944 film)
    Haridas (1944 film)
    Haridas is a 1944 Tamil language film directed by Sundar Rao Nadkarni and starring M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar. It holds the record of being the first film to run continuously for 110 weeks at a single theatre.-Production:...

  • Haridasa
    Haridasa
    The Haridasa devotional movement is considered as one of the turning points in the cultural history of India. Over a span of nearly six centuries, several saints and mystics helped shape the culture, philosophy and art of South India and Karnataka in particular by exerting considerable spiritual...

    , South Indian (Kannada) devotional bhakti movement

People with the name

  • Haridas Valath, Harsh Hiran
  • Haridasa Thakur
    Haridasa Thakur
    Haridasa Thakur was a prominent Muslim-Vaishnava saint, instrumental in the early appearance and spread of Hare Krishna movement. He is considered to be the most famous convert of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, apart from Rupa Goswami and Sanatana Goswami themselves, and the story of his heroism in the...

    , prominent follower of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, a convert from Islam
  • Haridas Chaudhuri
    Haridas Chaudhuri
    Haridas Chaudhuri , Bengali integral philosopher, was a correspondent with Sri Aurobindo and the founder of the California Institute of Integral Studies . He was born in Kolkata. He studied at the Scottish Church College and later at the University of Calcutta from where he earned his doctorate in...

    , Aurobindo affiliated philosopher
  • Swami Haridas
    Swami Haridas
    Swami Haridas was a spiritual poet and classical musician. Credited with a large body of devotional compositions, especially in the Dhrupad style, he is also the founder of the Haridasi school of mysticism, still found today in North India. His work influenced both the classical music and the...

    , saint-musician and a pioneer in the Hindustani classical music
  • Sadhu Haridas
    Sadhu Haridas
    Sadhu Haridas was a hatha yogi and fakir of nineteenth-century India, renowned for his reputed power to control his body completely using the power of his mind, employing the energies of kundalini. His most notable feat, carried out in 1837, was to survive burial underground, without food or...

    , 19th century yogi and fakir
  • Haridas Mundhra
    Haridas Mundhra
    Haridas Mundhra was a Calcutta-based industrialist and stock speculator who was found guilty and imprisoned in the first big financial scandal of free India in the 1950s. The Mundhra scandal exposed the rifts between the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his son-in-law Feroze Gandhi, and...

    , Calcutta-based industrialist and stock speculator
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