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Ramchandra Paramhans

Head of Ram Janmabhoomi

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ16015960 ↗
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Mahant Ramchandra Das Paramhans (1913–2003) was head of the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas in Ayodhya. He was born as Chandreshwar Tiwari into a prosperous Brahmin family in what is now the Indian state of Bihar. After his death, Mahant Dharam Das succeeded him as his legal heir.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ramchandra Paramhans” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.