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Gopal (caste), Gopal
Gopal may refer to: * Gopal (caste), a social community of Odisha in India * Gopal (Krishna), the infant/child form of Lord Krishna * Gopal Bansa, ancient Kingdom in Nepal * The Gopalas, an early Gaudiya Vaishnava institution * Gandhian Organisation for Peace and Liberty (GOPAL), an organization founded by Jayatirtha Dasa *Gopala (mathematician), medieval Indian mathematician *Gopala (ruler), founder of the medieval Indian Pala dynasty People with the given name * Gopal Swarup Pathak (1896–1982), Vice President of India from 1969 to 1974 * Gopal Ganesh Agarkar (1856–1895), Indian social reformer * Gopal Balakrishnan (born 1966), American philosopher * Gopal Baratham (1935–2002), Singaporean author and neurosurgeon * Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya (1895–1981), Indian entomologist and naturalist * Gopal Bose (1947–2018), Indian cricketer * Gopal Gurunath Bewoor (1916–1989), Indian military officer and diplomat * Gopal Bhar, Medieval Bengali jester * Gopal Bhargava (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gopal (caste)
Gopal or Gouda is an Indian caste, from Odisha State in East India. Their traditional occupations include dairy farming, cattle herding, cultivation and carrying palanquins of deities. They also worked as Paikas (soldiers) under the kings. Gopal is the name of the milkmen or herdsmen caste in Odisha, which is known by other names (such as Ahir, Yadav, Goala etc.) in various parts of India. According to 1931 census of India, they are second largest caste by numbers and comprise around 9% of Odisha's population. Etymology The word Gopal derived from vedic "Gopala", which "''Go''" refers to cow and "''Pala''" refers to protector or herder. Hence "Gopala" literally means "cow herder" Origin and history The Gopalas (Gaudas) like all Yadavs claim that they are descendants from Krishna of the ancient Yadava clan after the Sanskritisation process by Arya Samaj in 1930. In the Mahasabha held in 1930, Dairy faming castes such as Ahirs, Gaudas, Gopalas etc were advised to Identify th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gopal Chakraborty
Gopal Chakraborty (born 1 September 1936) is an Indian former cricketer. He played seven first-class matches for Bengal between 1954 and 1964. See also * List of Bengal cricketers This is a list of all cricketers who have played in first-class, List A or Twenty20 matches for Bengal, mostly in the Ranji Trophy (FC), Vijay Hazare Trophy (LA), and Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (T20) competitions. Seasons given are the first and ... References External links * 1936 births Living people Indian cricketers 20th-century Indian sportsmen Bengal cricketers Cricketers from Kolkata {{India-cricket-bio-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gopal Gurung
Gopal Gurung () (7 December 1939 – 10 June 2016) was a politician, author, journalist, teacher and vocal advocate of the human rights for the indigenous peoples, indigenous people of Nepal. Gurung was the editor-in-chief of ''New Light'' and ''Thunderbolt'' weekly newspapers for many years. He was a former member of the Central Committee of the Nepal Journalists Association, former Secretary General of the World Nepalese Association and Chairman of the All India Press Council for Nepal, as well as a consultant and coordinator for the Press Foundation of Asia (PFA), Manila, Philippines. Gurung was one of the first writers to discuss ethnic discrimination. He began writing about it in 1972 in the Nepali Newspaper ''New Light'' and later published an influential book on the topic, ''Hidden Facts in Nepalese Politics''. Gurung, founding president of the Mongol National Organisation, was a pioneer democracy, democratic Republicanism, republican figure of Nepal. Even during the Pan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gopal Gupta (philosopher)
Gopal Gupta is an Indian philosopher and Joe Dunham Distinguished Professor of Ethics at Aurora University. Previously, he was a professor of philosophy and religion at the University of Evansville The University of Evansville (UE) is a private university in Evansville, Indiana. It was founded in 1854 as Carnegie Hall of Moores Hill College, Moores Hill College. The university operates a satellite center, Harlaxton Manor, Harlaxton College .... Gupta is the editor-in-chief of the ''Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies'' (JHCS). Books * Māyā in the Bhāgavata Purāna: Human Suffering and Divine Play, Oxford University Press 2020 References 21st-century American philosophers Philosophy academics University of Evansville faculty Aurora University faculty Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{India-philosopher-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gopal Gupta (computer Scientist)
Gopal Gupta is the Erik Jonsson Professor and former head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. Currently, co-director of thCenter for Applied AI and Machine Learning Education Gupta received a B.Tech. degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India in 1985. He received an M.S. degree in computer science from The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1987. He also has a Ph.D. degree in computer science from The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1991. Career Gupta has worked in the field of logic programming since 1987. From 1989 to 1991, he worked as a Research Associate at the University of Bristol in the research group of David H.D. Warren. Subsequently, he was a faculty member in the Computer Science Department at New Mexico State University. Since 2000 he has been a faculty member at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he served as the Computer Science Department Head from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Gopal Krishna Gokhale ( International Phonetic Alphabet, [ˈɡoːpaːl ˈkrɪʂɳə ˈɡoːkʰleː] 9 May 1866 – 19 February 1915) was an Indian political leader and a social reformer during the Indian independence movement, and political mentor of India, Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi. Gokhale was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and the founder of the Servants of India Society. Through the Society as well as the Congress and other legislative bodies he served in, Gokhale campaigned for Indian self-rule and for social reforms. He was the leader of the moderate faction of the Congress party that advocated reforms by working with existing government institutions, and a major member of the Poona Association or the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha. Early biography Gopal Krishna Gokhale hailed from a Marathi people, Marathi Hindu Brahmin family of Ratnagiri, Bombay Presidency, now Maharashtra. He was born in a Chitpavan Brahmin family on 9 May 1866 of the British R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gopal Ghose
Gopal Ghose (5 December 1913 – 30 July 1980) was an Indian painter from West Bengal. In 1943, he was one of the founders of the Calcutta Group, perhaps the first group of modernist painters in India. Life and career Ghose was born in Calcutta, West Bengal on 5 December 1913. After obtaining a diploma in painting from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Jaipur in 1935, he trained in sculpture at the Government College of Art and Crafts, Chennai in 1938, where he studied under Debi Prasad Roy Choudhuri. Initially influenced by the Bengal School, Ghose was drawn to the pictorial vocabulary developed by European Expressionists and Cubists to depict nature. Ghose reworked the genre of landscape painting, investing it with expressionistic qualities. He travelled extensively within India to paint his landscapes. Ghose was adept with several mediums, and known especially for his ingenious handling of watercolour. He also worked with tempera, pen and ink, and brush and paste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gopal Datt
Gopal Datt is an Indian actor and writer. Gopal Datt started as theater artist in 1999 until he got first starring role in Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai. He also went on to star in the blockbuster Tere Naam, Samrat & Co. and the National Award-winning Filmistaan. Early life Gopal Datt was born in Nainital and finished high School in Nainital. He graduated with B.Sc. (Chemistry). After his graduation, Gopal enrolled into the National School of Drama (NSD) Delhi passing out in 1999. He acted in many stage dramas like Shakespearean Italian to Parsi. His favorite theater director is B.V. Karanth. Career After finishing acting course, Gopal Dutt moved to Mumbai from Delhi. He got first break in Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai (2001). After that he played roles in Tere Naam, in Kaushik Ghatak's 2014 Samrat & Co. as Chakradhar Pandey and also soundtrack writer in this and he played Jawaad's character in national award-winning film Filmistaan. He also became a jury in a film festival. Gopa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gopal Hari Deshmukh
Rao Bahadur Gopal Hari Deshmukh () also known as Lokhitwadi (18 February 1823 – 9 October 1892) was an Indian activist, thinker, social reformer and writer from Maharashtra. Deshmukh is regarded as an important figure of the Social Reform Movement in Maharashtra. Early life Gopal Hari Deshmukh was born into a Maharashtrian Chitpavan Brahmin family in 1823. He was a descendant of Vishwanathpant Sidhaye, a native of Konkan and a Deshmukh who held a vatan (right to collect revenue/fief) of many villages. The family settled in Pune were from then on known by the surname,'Deshmukh' . His father was the treasurer of Bapu Gokhale, the general of Bajirao II during the Third Anglo-Maratha War. Deshmukh studied at the Poona English Medium School. Career Deshmukh started his career as a translator for the government then under British Raj. In 1867, the government appointed him a small cause judge in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. He also worked as a Diwan for the princely state of R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gopal Nilkanth Dandekar
Gopal Nilkanth Dandekar aka Appa Dandekar (8 July 1916 – 1 June 1998) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. Dandekar was born in Paratwada in Amravati district. He grew up in Vidarbha but ran away from his home in Nagpur at age thirteen in response to Mahatma Gandhi's call to young people for joining his movement for India's attainment of freedom from the British Raj. After spending a few years in extreme poverty, he found some stability with a few patrons. Later he joined Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and worked as a volunteer in Gadge Maharaj's social service movement. He traveled extensively. Awards and honors In 1976, Dandekar received a Sahitya Akademi Award for his autobiographical work ''Smaran Gatha''. He was elected president of Marathi Sahitya Sammelan held at Akola in 1981. He received an honorary D.Litt. degree from Pune University on 30 December 1992. Personal life Dandekar and his wife Neera Dandekar have a daughter, Veena Dev. Veena has two daughters: M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gopal Prasad Dubey
Gopal Prasad Dubey (25 June 1957 – 14 November 2022) is an Indian classical dancer, known for his expertise in the Indian classical dance form of Chhau. He is considered by many as the leading exponent of the Seraikella variant of the art form. Dubey was honored by the Government of India, in 2012, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri. Biography Gopal Prasad Dubey was born on 25 June 1957 in a Brahmin family at Seraikella, in the Indian state of Bihar (now Jharkhand). He started training Chhau at the age of 14 under renowned gurus such as Rajkumar S. N. Singhdeo, Kedar Nath Sahoo, both Padma Shri award winners and Natasekhar Banbihari Pattanayak. He also had training in New York, under a grant provided by the Asian Cultural Council. Dubey founded ''Trinetra'', an institution for promoting Chhau dance, in 1985, under the aegis of which he has performed at many places across the world. He has worked as the faculty member for dance at the Panjab Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gopal Singha Dev II
Gopal Singha Dev II was the fifty-eighth king of the Mallabhum. He ruled from 1809 to 1876 CE.Malabhum, Bishnupur-Chandra, Manoranjan; 2004; Kolkata. Deys Publishing History Gopal Singha Dev II lived on the stipend given by the East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South A .... Bishnupur was constituted a municipality in 1863. His period of rule was 67 years and it was maximum among all the Malla Kings. References Sources * Kings of Mallabhum 19th-century Indian monarchs {{India-royal-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
