[12] The Ramanandi Sampradaya is one of the largest and most egalitarian Hindu sects India, around the Gangetic Plain, and Nepal today.

According to Shanti Lala Nagar, quoting Valmiki Samhita says "The Supreme Being, Rama, always ready to protect his eternal servants and to assist those with meek hearts.

He created this universe and, with the desire for the welfare of people, Rama imparted the transcendental mantra to Sita, the daughter of King Janaka than She revealed this to the glorious Hanuman, the repository of virtues.

[21] Bhaktamal, a gigantic hagiographic work on Hindu saints and devotees written by Nabhadas in 1660,[22] was a core text for all Vaishnavas including Ramanandis.

In the 19th century, proliferation of the printing press in the Gangetic plains of North India allowed various commentaries of the text to be widely distributed.

[27] Farquhar credits Ramananda[28] and his followers as the origin of the North Indian practice of using Ram to refer to the Absolute.

[30] On the other hand, Sita Ram, author of the Vaishnava history of Ayodhya, and George Grierson, eminent linguist and Indologist, represent Ramananda as saint who tried to transcend caste divisions of medieval India through the message of love and equality.

[32] Up to the nineteenth century, many of the trade routes in northern India were guarded by groups of warrior-ascetics, including the Nāgā sections of the Rāmānandīs, who were feared because of their strength and fearlessness.

[33] The British took steps to disarm these militant groups of ascetics, but even today the sects still retain their heroic traditions.

[2] Ramanandi monasteries are found throughout northern, western and central India, the Ganges basin, the Nepalese Terai, and the Himalayan foothills.

[35] The majority of Hindu immigrants to Trinidad and Tobago as well as substantial section of Hindus in United Kingdom of Great Britain belong to Vaishnava sects such as the Ramanandi.

Because Tulsidas attempted to reconcile various theologies scholars like Ramchandra Shukla do not agree that he can be considered to be a Ramanandi exclusively.

[2] Another bhakti saint, Ravidas, who was also a disciple of Ramananda, followed Ramanandi Sampradaya and also founded the Ravidassia sect.