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Ramananda Bharati (1836–1901) was a Bengali scholar, reformer, ascetic, and travel writer who moved between orthodox Hinduism, Brahmo reformism, and monastic spirituality. Trained in Sanskrit and honoured with the title ‘Vidyaratna’, he taught at Calcutta’s Wesleyan Mission School, where his engagement with Christian missionaries led him towards monotheism and the Brahmo Samaj. Following the deaths of his wife and son, heartbroken, he entered the Dasnami monastic order and became a paribrajak sadhu (travellersaint), visiting pilgrimage sites across India and even to Tibet.