Banda may refer to:

People

Banda Prakash Banda Prakash Mudiraj (born 1954) is an Indian politician and the Member of Telangana Legislative Council from November 2021. Earlier he served as Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha representing Telangana from 23rd March 2018 to 4th December 20 ...

(born 1954), Indian politician *

Banda Kanakalingeshwara Rao Banda Kanakalingeswara Rao (20 January 1907 – 3 December 1968) was an Indian actor known for his works in Telugu theatre, and Telugu cinema. He was the member of Kendriya Sangeet Natak Akademi since 1952 and Andhra Pradesh Sangeet Natak Akade ...

(1907–1968), Indian actor *

Banda Karthika Reddy Banda Karthika Reddy (born 17 August 1977) is an Indian politician and Former Mayor of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, Telangana, India. She is the first Mayor of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation in 2009 and is a member of the B ...

(born 1977), Indian politician *

Banda Singh Bahadur Banda Singh Bahadur (born Lachman Dev) (27 October 1670 – 9 June 1716), was a Sikh warrior and a commander of Khalsa army. At age 15, he left home to become an ascetic, and was given the name Madho Das Bairagi. He established a monastery ...

(1670–1716), Sikh warrior

Places

Argentina

Banda Department Banda Department ( es, Departamento Banda) is a department of Argentina in Santiago del Estero Province. The capital city of the department is situated in La Banda La Banda is a city in the province of Santiago del Estero, Argentina. It has abo ...

, a part of Santiago del Estero Province, Argentina

Canada

Banda, Ontario Banda is an unincorporated rural community in Dufferin County, Ontario, Canada. Officially located in Mulmur Township, Banda has historically been associated with both Mulmur Township and Nottawasaga Township (now Clearview Township), because i ...

, a settlement in Ontario

Ghana

* Banda Ahenkro, a town in Banda District *

Banda District, Ghana Banda District is one of the twelve districts in Bono Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Tain District Tain District is one of the twelve districts in Bono Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of t ...

, a district in the Bono Region *

Banda (Ghana parliament constituency) Banda is a constituency of the parliament of Ghana, located in the Banda District in the Bono Region. Ahmed Ibrahim is the member of parliament for the constituency, elected on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and winning a ...

, a constituency in the Bono Region

India

Banda, East Godavari district Banda is a village in East Godavari district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest cou ...

, a village in Andhra Pradesh, India *

Banda, Maharashtra Banda is a town in Sindhudurg district in Maharashtra, India, near the Goa- Maharashtra border. Banda is the last town in Maharashtra state on Mumbai-Goa national highway (NH-17), on the bank of the Terekhol river. Languages spoken The main lan ...

, a small town in Maharashtra *

Banda, Uttar Pradesh Banda is a city and a municipal board in Banda district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Banda is divided between north, east, west and south Banda. Banda lies south of the Yamuna river in the Bundelkhand region. It is the administrative ...

, a city and district headquarters of Banda District, Uttar Pradesh * Banda District, India, a district in Uttar Pradesh *

Banda (Lok Sabha constituency) Banda Lok Sabha Constituency is one of the 80 parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. Assembly segments Banda Lok Sabha constituency comprises five Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments. These are: Members ...

, Uttar Pradesh *

Banda (Assembly constituency) Banda is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Banda in the Banda district of Uttar Pradesh, India. Banda is one of five assembly constituencies in the Lok Sabha constituency of Banda. Since 2008, thi ...

, a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly *

Banda (Vidhan Sabha constituency) Banda Assembly constituency is one of the 230 Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha, Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency came into existence in 1951, as one of the Vidhan Sabha const ...

, Madhya Pradesh

Indonesia

Banda Islands The Banda Islands ( id, Kepulauan Banda) are a volcanic group of ten small volcanic islands in the Banda Sea, about south of Seram Island and about east of Java, and constitute an administrative district (''kecamatan'') within the Central ...

, a group of ten small volcanic islands in the Banda Sea *

Banda Sea The Banda Sea ( id, Laut Banda, pt, Mar de Banda, tet, Tasi Banda) is one of four seas that surround the Maluku Islands of Indonesia, connected to the Pacific Ocean, but surrounded by hundreds of islands, including Timor, as well as the Halma ...

, the sea of the South Moluccas, a part of the Pacific Ocean

Uganda

Banda, Uganda Banda is a hill that lies in Nakawa Division, within Kampala, the capital of Uganda. Banda also refers to the neighborhoods on the slopes of the hill and between Banda Hill and Kireka, extending all the way to the Kampala-Jinja Highway. The sou ...

, a hill and the neighbourhood on that hill, located in Nakawa Division, within the city of Kampala

Music

A Banda (Ah Bahn-da) "A Banda (Ah Bahn-da)" (Portuguese for "The Band") is a composition by Chico Buarque that was first performed live in 1966 by Buarque and Nara Leão, during the II Música Popular Brasileira (MPB) Festival in TV Record's theater, São Paulo, winni ...

", a composition by Chico Buarque *

Banda music Banda is a genre of Regional Mexican music and type of ensemble in which wind (mostly brass) and percussion instruments are performed. The history of banda music in Mexico dates from the middle of the 19th century with the arrival of piston br ...

, a form of Mexican music * Banda (opera), a musical ensemble which is used in addition to the main opera orchestra and plays the music which is actually heard by the characters in the opera

Other uses

* Banda people, an ethnic group of the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, and Sudan * Banda languages, a family of Ubangian languages of Central Africa * Banda language (Maluku), an Austronesian language of the Kei Islands, Indonesia *Banda machine, a brand of

spirit duplicator A spirit duplicator (also referred to as a Rexograph or Ditto machine in North America, Banda machine in the UK, Gestetner machine in Australia) is a printing method invented in 1923 by Wilhelm Ritzerfeld that was commonly used for much of the ...

- a type of low-volume document copying machine * Banda (state), a former princely state in India *Banda, a large smoked fish in Chad *Banda, a caste of

adivasi The Adivasi refers to inhabitants of Indian subcontinent, generally tribal people. The term is a Sanskrit word coined in the 1930s by political activists to give the tribal people an indigenous identity by claiming an indigenous origin. The term ...

s in Odisha, Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand *

Banda Deul Banda Deul is an 11th-century temple in Banda village (also called ''Deulghera'') in the Raghunathpur II CD block in the Raghunathpur subdivision of the Purulia district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Locat ...

, an 11th-century temple in Purulia district, West Bengal, India