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	'''Gandhabanik''' is a [[Bengali Hindu]] trading caste, who as the caste name suggests, traditionally used to trade in perfumes, ~~incense~~ and ~~spices~~. {{~~citation needed~~\|date=~~December 2017~~}}		'''Gandhabanik''' is a [[Bengali Hindu]] trading caste, who as the caste name suggests, traditionally used to trade in perfumes, cosmetics, spices etc.<ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F2sKAQAAIAAJ&q=gandhabanik\|title=The Eastern Anthropologist\|date=1963\|publisher=Ethnographic and Folk Culture Society\|pages=66, 68\|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DR8WAQAAIAAJ&q=gandhabanik\|title=Proceedings of the Indian Science Congress\|date=1973\|pages=589\|language=en}}</ref> They were also engaged in agriculture.<ref>{{Cite book\|last=Bhowmick\|first=P. K.\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9ShOFk8CGmwC&q=gandhabanik+\|title=Occupational Mobility and Caste Structure in Bengal: Study of Rural Market\|date=1969\|publisher=Indian Publications\|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book\|last1=Singh\|first1=K. S.\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jw9uAAAAMAAJ&q=gandhabanik+\|title=India's Communities\|last2=India\|first2=Anthropological Survey of\|date=1998\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|isbn=978-0-19-563354-2\|pages=946\|language=en}}</ref> As of late nineteenth century they were one of the fourteen castes belonging to ''Nabasakh'' group.<ref>{{Cite book\|last=Sanyal\|first=Hitesranjan\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ezzuAAAAIAAJ&q=gandhabanik\|title=Social Mobility in Bengal\|date=1981\|publisher=Papyrus\|pages=115\|language=en}}</ref> There is almost one hundred percent literacy among the present gandhabanik generation.<ref>{{Cite book\|last=Singh\|first=Kumar Suresh\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xMw-AQAAIAAJ&q=gandhabanik\|title=People of India: West Bengal (2 pts.)\|date=1992\|publisher=Anthropological Survey of India\|isbn=978-81-7046-300-9\|pages=439\|language=en}}</ref>

			It is believed that the legendary sea merchant [[Chand Sadagar]] of ancient [[Champaknagar]] was from Gandhabanik community.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book \|last=Sengupta \|first=Saswati \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VKkPEAAAQBAJ \|title=Mutating Goddesses: Bengal's Laukika Hinduism and Gender Rights \|date=2020-11-30 \|publisher=Oxford University Press \|isbn=978-0-19-099325-2 \|pages=104 \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book \|last=Bhaumik \|first=Sudarshana \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7SX4zgEACAAJ \|title=The Changing World of Caste and Hierarchy in Bengal: Depiction from the Mangalkavyas C. 1700-1931 \|date=2022 \|publisher=Routledge, Taylor & Francis \|isbn=978-1-003-14618-6 \|pages=241 \|language=en}}</ref>

			== Varna Status ==
			Gandhabaniks have generally been considered as 'middle class shudras' in the caste structure of Bengal.<ref>{{Cite report\|title=The Tribes and Castes of West Bengal\|last=Mitra\|first=A.\|date=1953\|publisher=Land and Land Revenue Department, Government of West Bengal\|page=21\|series=Census 1951}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book \|last=Sarma \|first=Jyotirmoyee \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hfE_AAAAMAAJ \|title=Caste Dynamics Among the Bengali Hindus \|date=1980 \|publisher=Firma KLM \|isbn=978-0-8364-0633-7 \|pages=184 \|language=en}}</ref>

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{{Infobox caste
| caste_name = Gandhabanik
| classification =
| population =
| populated_states = [[West Bengal]], [[Jharkhand]], [[Tripura]], [[Assam]]
| languages = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]
| religions = [[Hinduism]]
| kula_devi =[[Gandheswari]] mata
}}

'''Gandhabanik''' is a [[Bengali Hindu]] trading caste, who as the caste name suggests, traditionally used to trade in perfumes, incense and spices. {{citation needed|date=December 2017}}

== References ==
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{{Bengali Hindu people}}

[[Category:Bengali Hindu castes]]
[[Category:Social groups of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Indian castes]]

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