Draft:Ladia

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Mukeshagarwala9: Ladia community

''''About Ladia community' लडिया समाज ' Ladia Caste is part of the Marwari Baniya community in the Hindu religion. Ladias are the money lenders and bankers but based over time they have changed modern professions and migrated into different parts of India. Ladia / Ladiya surname is common among businessmen in Delhi, Hariyana, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh (MP), Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Asam, West Bengal (WB), and some in South India as well. All Ladias are Marwari.

लडिया मारवाड़ी बनिया समाज है और महाराजा अग्रसेन के वंसज हैं। लडिया अग्रवाल समाज के उपनामों में से एक है।

List of Surnames of Agarwal community along with Gotra: https://www.agravansh.com/surnames-of-gotra-bindal/ and one more: https://www.allindiaagarwal.com/gotra.php/

Rich Ladia merchants has built many havelis during 18th Century below are few: https://urban.rajasthan.gov.in/content/raj/udh/nagar-palika-mandawa/en/about-/history-city-profile.html https://www.rajasthantourplanner.com/Monuments-Citywise/Gulab-Rai-Ladia-Haveli.html https://snehi-ram-ladia-haveli.business.site/

Agrawal

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Mukeshagarwala9:

{{Short description|A Bania community in the Indian subcontinent}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2013}}
{{Infobox ethnic group
| group = Agrawal
| image = Maharja Agrasena.jpeg
| caption = [[Agrasen|Maharaja Agrasen]], the legendary king from whom Agrawals claim descent
| regions = India, Pakistan
| langs = [[Hindi language|Hindi]], [[Rajasthani language|Rajasthani]], [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]], [[Hariyanvi]]
| rels = Majority: [[Vaishnava]] [[Hinduism]]<br> Minority: [[Jainism]], [[Islam]], [[Christianity]]<ref name="Harrison2015">{{cite book |last1=Harrison |first1=Selig S. |title=India: The Most Dangerous Decades |date=8 December 2015 |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |isbn=978-1-4008-7780-5 |page=115 |language=English |quote=Some subsects of the Oswals and Agarwals were converted to Jainism in the 16th century.}}</ref><ref name="SikandKatju1994"/>
}}
'''Agrawal''' ([[anglicised]] as '''Agarwal''', '''Agerwal''', '''Agrawala''', '''Agarwala''', '''Agarwalla''', '''Aggarwal''', '''Agarawal''', '''Agarawala''') is a [[Bania (caste)|Bania]] community found throughout northern, central and western India, mainly in the states of [[Rajasthan, India|Rajasthan]], [[Haryana, India|Haryana]], [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], [[Chandigarh]], [[Himachal Pradesh]], [[Uttarakhand]], [[Delhi NCR|Delhi]], [[Chhattisgarh]], [[Gujarat]] and [[Uttar Pradesh]].<ref name="Hanks2003"/><ref>https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/TYwWWYXGX3L72a1psxhe3N/A-history-of-the-Agarwals.html</ref> Members of the Agarwal community were also found in what are now the Pakistani provinces of [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]] and [[Sindh]], though at the time of the [[partition of India]], most of them migrated across the newly created border to independent India.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gupta |first=Babu Lal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OJQrAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y |title=Trade and Commerce in Rajasthan During the 18th Century |page=88|date=1987 |publisher=Jaipur Publishing House |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Das2012">{{cite book |last1=Das |first1=Sibir Ranjan |title=Resilience and Identity in Urban India: Anthropology of Barmer and Tehri |date=2012 |publisher=[[Anthropological Survey of India]] |isbn=978-81-922974-9-1 |page=107 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Gulzar Ahmed Chaudhry|date=4 June 2014|title=Nagar Mahal – from Agarwals to Sukheras|url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1110497 |work=[[DAWN (newspaper)|Dawn]]}}</ref> Most Agarwals follow the [[Vaishnava]] denomination of [[Hinduism]], though some have converted to [[Jainism]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Goh |first=Robbie B. H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LyJLDwAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&lpg=PP1&pg=PA33#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=Protestant Christianity in the Indian Diaspora: Abjected Identities, Evangelical Relations, and Pentecostal Visions |date=2018-02-08 |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=978-1-4384-6944-7 |language=en|quote=Agarwal recounts how the news of his own conversion was greeted by his grandmother in Punjab...}}</ref><ref name="SikandKatju1994">{{cite journal |last1=Sikand |first1=Yoginder |last2=Katju |first2=Manjari |title=Mass Conversions to Hinduism among Indian Muslims |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |date=20 August 1994 |volume=29 |issue=34 |pages=2214–2219 |language=en}}</ref> Agrawals are divided into eighteen exogamous clans (gotras).{{cn|date=August 2021}} Many members of this community use their caste name Agarwal as their surname, while others use that of their gotras.{{cn|date=August 2021}}

Members of the Agrawal community are known for their business skills and have for many years been influential and prosperous in India.{{cn|date=August 2021}} Even in modern-day tech and ecommerce companies, they continue to dominate. It was reported in 2013, that for every 100 in funding for e-commerce companies in India, 40 went to firms founded by an Agrawal.<ref>{{cite news |first=Harsimran |last=Julka |author2=Radhika P. Nair |date=12 February 2013 |title=Why young Aggarwals dominate India's e-commerce start-ups |url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-02-12/news/37059057_1_e-commerce-founder-agrawals |work=[[The Economic Times]] | location=Delhi}}</ref>

==Legend==
[[File:Agrasen ki Baoli, New Delhi, India - 20070127.jpg|250px|thumb|[[Agrasen ki Baoli]] in Delhi, which was built by the Agarwal during the [[Tughlaq dynasty]] in India.<ref>{{cite book |title=Down to Earth: Science and Environment Fortnightly, Volume 16, Issues 16-24 |date=2008 |publisher=Society for Environmental Communications |page=71 |language=en |quote=Resembling Tughlak period architectures, it was probably constructed by the Agrawal community (tracing back to Maharaja Agrasen).}}</ref>]]

The Agrawals claim descent from king [[Agrasen]] of the [[Hindu mythology|mythological]] [[Suryavansha|Solar Dynasty]].<ref name="Mittalp675">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rrh4tY3v2A4C&pg=PA675 |title=History of Ancient India: From 4250 BC to 637 AD |first=J. P. |last=Mittal |page=675 |publisher=Atlantic Publishers |year=2006 |isbn=978-81-269-0616-1}}</ref>
List of Surnames of Agarwal community along with Gotra: https://www.allindiaagarwal.com/gotra.php/
==History==
Agrawals are a part of the larger [[Bania (caste)|Bania]] community, which includes other mercantile communities, such as the [[Maheshwari]] and [[Oswals]].<ref name="Hanks2003">{{cite book |last1=Hanks |first1=Patrick |title=Dictionary of American Family Names |date=8 May 2003 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-977169-1 |page=xcvi |language=en|quote=The Banias of northern India are really a cluster of several communities, of which the Agarwal Banias, Oswal Banias, and Porwal Banias are mentioned separately in connection with certain surnames.}}</ref>

===Migration to Rajput kingdoms===
During the era of [[Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent|Islamic administrative rule in India]], some Agarwal, as with the [[Sarawagi|Saraogi]], migrated to the [[Bikaner State]].{{cn|date=August 2021}} The [[Malkana]] include Muslim Agarwals, who converted from Hinduism to Islam during this time and were given land tracts along the [[Yamuna]] by Afghan rulers.<ref name="SikandKatju1994"/>

In the early 15th century, Agrawals (sweet maker) flourished as a Halwai trader community, under the [[Tomaras of Gwalior]].<ref name="ReferenceA">Kashtha Sangha Bhattarakas of Gwalior and Agrawal Shravakas, Dr. K. C. Jain</ref>{{fcn|date=August 2021}} According to several [[Sanskrit]] inscription at the [[Gwalior Fort]] in [[Gwalior District]], several traders (Sanghavi Kamala Simha, Khela Brahmachari, Sandhadhip Namadas etc.) belonging to ''Agrotavansha'' (Agrawal clan) supported the sculptures and carving of idols at the place.<ref>{{cite web
| url=http://www.webdunia.com/dharm/jain/gopachal/19_gopachal9.htm
| title=गोपाचल के जिन मन्दिर एवं प्रतिमाएँ
| publisher=Webdunia.com
| language=hi
| access-date=2007-06-02
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041224031241/http://www.webdunia.com/dharm/jain/gopachal/19_gopachal9.htm
| archive-date=24 December 2004
| url-status=dead
}}</ref>
Historian K.C. Jain comments:
{{cquote|Golden Age of the Jain Digambar Temple in Gwalior under the Tomara rulers inspired by the [[Kashtha Sangh|Kashtha]] Bhattarakas and their Jaina Agrawal disciples who dominated the Court of father and son viz. Dungar Singh (1425-59)and Kirti Singh (1459-80) with the Poet-Laureate [[Raighu]] as their mouthpiece and spokesman, a centenarian author of as many as thirty books, big and small of which two dozen are reported to be extant today. Verify the advent of the Hisar-Firuza-based Jain Agrawals who functioned as the ministers and treasurers of the ruling family had turned the Rajput State of Gwalior into a Digambara Jain Centre par excellence representing the culture of the Agrawal multi-millionner shravakas as sponsored by them.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>}}

===Migration to Eastern India===

Later, during the Mughal rule, and during the [[British East India Company]] administration, some Agrawals migrated to [[Bihar]] and [[Calcutta]], who became the major component of the [[Marwaris]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Anne |last=Hardgrove |title=Community and Public Culture: The Marwaris in Calcutta, c. 1897–1997 |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-23112-216-0}}</ref>{{pn|date=August 2021}}

==Notable Agrawals==
{{main |List of Agrawals}}

== See also ==
* [[Agrawal Jain]]

== References ==
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