Banda

Banda may refer to:

People

• Rupiah Banda, President of Zambia
• Hastings Banda, former President of Malawi
• Banda Singh Bahadur, a famous Sikh warlord
• Banda Kanakalingeshwara Rao, a famous Indian stage actor.

Places

• Banda District in Uttar Pradesh, India
• Banda (Lok Sabha constituency), India
• Banda, Ghana
• Banda, India, administrative headquarters of Banda District
• Banda, Uganda, a suburb of Kampala, part of Kira Town
• Banda Islands, a group of ten small volcanic islands in the Banda Sea
• Banda Sea, the sea of the South Moluccas in Indonesia, a part of the Pacific Ocean
• Banda, Maharashtra, a small town in Maharashtra, India

Miscellaneous

• Banda fluid, the distinctive-smelling solvent used in a Banda machine
• Banda languages, spoken by the Banda people
• Banda machine, a type of copying machine (spirit duplicator)
• Banda music, a traditional Mexican form of music
• Banda people, an ethnic group of the Central African Republic
• Banda (Sudan), ethnic group
• Banda polka, a Polish version of the Beer Barrel Polka
• Banda, large smoked fish in Chad

Other references

Banda may also refer to:

• In Padua, Italy, Palazzo Giusti detention center security police irregulars and other hangers-on in the service of Major Mario Carità were known as the banda Carità.
• the off-stage musicians in many operas, such as in Don Giovanni, Rigoletto or Aida or the costumed musicians on-stage, as in the festivities of L'elisir d'amore or Carmen.
• Banda in the Philippines refers to a group of musicians typically composed of guitar players, drummer, and vocalists. Notable Pinoy bands today in the Philippines are Bamboo, Rivermaya, Sugarfree, etc.

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