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<div>{{Short description|Group of Brahmin communities in India}}<br />
{{for|the Southern Indians caste|Goud}}<br />
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'''Gauda''', or '''Gaur '''or '''Gaud''' or '''Gor''' or '''Gour''' or '''God''' is a group of [[Brahmin]] communities in India. The Gauda Brahmins are one of the five [[Pancha Gauda]] Brahmin communities that lives in the north of the [[Vindhya]]s.<ref name="JGL_2002">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/illustratedencyc0000loch |url-access=registration |title=The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism: N-Z |author=James G. Lochtefeld |publisher=Rosen |year=2002 |isbn=9780823931804 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/illustratedencyc0000loch/page/490 490]–491 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lXyWE6KbG8oC&pg=PA168 |title=Caste in Life: Experiencing Inequalities |editor=D. Shyam Babu and [[R. S. Khare|Ravindra S. Khare]] |publisher=Pearson Education India |year=2011 |isbn=9788131754399 |page=168 }}</ref> Gauda Brahmins are most numerous in the western half of [[northern India]], particularly in the states of [[Haryana]], [[Punjab]], [[Rajasthan]] as well as in the western parts of [[Uttar Pradesh]] and [[Madhya Pradesh]] and a significant amount are present in other northern states of India as well.<ref name="NJC_2017">{{cite book |author=James G. Lochtefeld |url=https://archive.org/details/TheIllustratedEncyclopediaOfHinduism.../page/n273/mode/2up |title=The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism |publisher=Rosen |year=2002 |isbn=9780823931804 |pages= |url-access=registration |archive-url= |archive-date=}}</ref> The Gaurs claim that the other four main divisions of North Indian Brahmins were originally Gaur, and have acquired their present designations of [[Saraswat | Saraswat Brahmins]], [[Kanyakubja Brahmin]]s, [[Maithil Brahmin]]s and [[Utkala Brahmin]]s by immigrating to the provinces where they are now domiciled. In Sir George Campbell's Ethnology of India, it is suggested that Gaurs may have derived their names from the [[Ghaggar | Ghaggar-Hakra River]], which, in ancient times, was a tributary of Saraswati and now discharges its waters into the [[Sutlej]] near [[Firozpur]]. According to popular usage the word Gaur means a priest, and it is not impossible that the name of Gaur Brahmins was given to those who served as priests to the ancient kings of [[Kuruksetra]]. <ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Hindu_Castes_and_Sects/xlpLAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 |title= Hindu Castes and Sects: An Exposition of the Origin of the Hindu Caste System and the Bearing of the Sects Towards Each Other and Towards Other Religious Systems |editor=[[Jogendra Nath Bhattacharya]] |publisher=Spink Thacker |year=1896 |isbn=9781298966339 |page=52 }}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Forward Castes]]<br />
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[[Category:Brahmin communities of West Bengal]]<br />
[[Category:Brahmin communities of Rajasthan]]<br />
[[Category:Brahmin communities of Madhya Pradesh]]<br />
[[Category:Brahmin communities of Haryana]]<br />
[[Category:Brahmin communities of Gujarat]]</div>2409:4055:2E8C:D804:A122:24C2:BB67:5DC6