Kulin Brahmin - Revision history

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	~~'''Kulin Brahmins''' are the~~ [[Bengali ~~Brahmins]] belonging to [[Hindu]] religion. They trace themselves to the five families of [[Kannauj~~]] ~~who migrated to Bengal.~~

	~~==History==~~		{{R from merge}}
	After the decline of the Pala dynasty, a Hindu king, [[Adi Sura]] brought in five Brahmins and their five attendants from [[Kanauj]], his purpose being to provide education for the Brahmins already in the area whom he thought to be ignorant, and revive traditional orthodox Brahminical Hinduism.<ref name=NKSenguptap25/> These Vedic Brahmins were supposed to have nine ''gunas'' (favoured attributes), among which was insistence on same rank marriages.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.cwds.ac.in/ocpaper/reflectionsonkulinpolygamy.pdf \|title=Reflections on Kulin Polygamy, p2 \|access-date=29 April 2016 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910041843/http://www.cwds.ac.in/ocpaper/reflectionsonkulinpolygamy.pdf \|archive-date=10 September 2016 \|url-status=dead }}</ref> Multiple accounts of this legend exist.<ref name=NKSenguptap25>{{cite book \|last=Sengupta\|first=Nitish K. \|title=History of the Bengali-Speaking People \|publisher=UBS Publishers' Distributors \|year=2001 \|isbn=81-7476-355-4 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6eYsAAAAMAAJ \|page=25}}</ref> The tradition continues by saying that these incomers settled and each became the founder of a clan.<ref name="Bromley">{{cite book \|title=Krishna consciousness in the West \|editor1-first=David G. \|editor1-last=Bromley \|editor2-first=Larry D. \|editor2-last=Shinn \|first=Thomas J. \|last=Hopkins \|chapter=The Social and Religious Background for Transmission of Gaudiya Vaisnavism to the West \|publisher=Bucknell University Press \|year=1989 \|isbn=978-0-8387-5144-2 \|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F-EuD3M2QYoC&pg=PA35 \|pages=35–36 \|accessdate=31 October 2011}}</ref>		{{R to section}}

	The five Brahmin clans, which later became known as [[Mukherjee]]s, [[Chatterjee]]s, [[Banerjee]]s, [[Ganguly (surname)\|Gangulys]] and [[Bhattacharjee]]s, were each designated as ''Kulina'' ("superior") in order to differentiate them from ~~the more established local Brahmins.<ref name="Bromley"/>~~

	~~==See also==~~
	*[[Kulin Kayastha]]

	~~==References==~~
	~~{{Reflist~~}}

	~~==Further reading==~~
	*{{~~cite book \|title=History of the Bengali-speaking People \|first=Nitish \|last=Sengupta \|publisher=UBS Publishers' Distributors \|year=2001 \|isbn=8174763554~~}}

	[[Category:Brahmin communities of West Bengal]]		[[Category:Brahmin communities of West Bengal]]

->Ekdalian: Reverted 1 edit by 49.207.194.215 (talk): Ghoshal is not a Kulin surname too; reliable & verifiable sources required for such claims

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Reverted 1 edit by 49.207.194.215 (talk): Ghoshal is not a Kulin surname too; reliable & verifiable sources required for such claims

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	'''Kulin Brahmins''' are ~~a relatively small subset of~~ the [[Bengali Brahmins]] belonging to [[Hindu]] religion. They trace themselves to the ~~four~~ families of [[Kannauj]] ~~in North India~~ who migrated to Bengal.		'''Kulin Brahmins''' are the [[Bengali Brahmins]] belonging to [[Hindu]] religion. They trace themselves to the five families of [[Kannauj]] who migrated to Bengal.

	==History==		==History==
	After the decline of the Pala dynasty, a Hindu king, [[Adi Sura]] brought in ~~four~~ Brahmins from [[Kanauj]], his purpose being to provide education for the Brahmins already in the area whom he thought to be ignorant, and to revive traditional orthodox Brahminical Hinduism.<ref name=NKSenguptap25/> These Vedic Brahmins were supposed to have nine ''gunas'' (favoured attributes), among which was insistence on same rank marriages.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.cwds.ac.in/ocpaper/reflectionsonkulinpolygamy.pdf \|title=Reflections on Kulin Polygamy, p2 \|access-date=29 April 2016 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910041843/http://www.cwds.ac.in/ocpaper/reflectionsonkulinpolygamy.pdf \|archive-date=10 September 2016 \|url-status=dead }}</ref> Multiple accounts of this legend exist.<ref name=NKSenguptap25>{{cite book \|last=Sengupta\|first=Nitish K. \|title=History of the Bengali-Speaking People \|publisher=UBS Publishers' Distributors \|year=2001 \|isbn=81-7476-355-4 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6eYsAAAAMAAJ \|page=25}}</ref> The tradition continues by saying that these incomers settled and each became the founder of a clan.<ref name="Bromley">{{cite book \|title=Krishna consciousness in the West \|editor1-first=David G. \|editor1-last=Bromley \|editor2-first=Larry D. \|editor2-last=Shinn \|first=Thomas J. \|last=Hopkins \|chapter=The Social and Religious Background for Transmission of Gaudiya Vaisnavism to the West \|publisher=Bucknell University Press \|year=1989 \|isbn=978-0-8387-5144-2 \|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F-EuD3M2QYoC&pg=PA35 \|pages=35–36 \|accessdate=31 October 2011}}</ref>		After the decline of the Pala dynasty, a Hindu king, [[Adi Sura]] brought in five Brahmins and their five attendants from [[Kanauj]], his purpose being to provide education for the Brahmins already in the area whom he thought to be ignorant, and revive traditional orthodox Brahminical Hinduism.<ref name=NKSenguptap25/> These Vedic Brahmins were supposed to have nine ''gunas'' (favoured attributes), among which was insistence on same rank marriages.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.cwds.ac.in/ocpaper/reflectionsonkulinpolygamy.pdf \|title=Reflections on Kulin Polygamy, p2 \|access-date=29 April 2016 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910041843/http://www.cwds.ac.in/ocpaper/reflectionsonkulinpolygamy.pdf \|archive-date=10 September 2016 \|url-status=dead }}</ref> Multiple accounts of this legend exist.<ref name=NKSenguptap25>{{cite book \|last=Sengupta\|first=Nitish K. \|title=History of the Bengali-Speaking People \|publisher=UBS Publishers' Distributors \|year=2001 \|isbn=81-7476-355-4 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6eYsAAAAMAAJ \|page=25}}</ref> The tradition continues by saying that these incomers settled and each became the founder of a clan.<ref name="Bromley">{{cite book \|title=Krishna consciousness in the West \|editor1-first=David G. \|editor1-last=Bromley \|editor2-first=Larry D. \|editor2-last=Shinn \|first=Thomas J. \|last=Hopkins \|chapter=The Social and Religious Background for Transmission of Gaudiya Vaisnavism to the West \|publisher=Bucknell University Press \|year=1989 \|isbn=978-0-8387-5144-2 \|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F-EuD3M2QYoC&pg=PA35 \|pages=35–36 \|accessdate=31 October 2011}}</ref>

	~~These four~~ Brahmin clans, which later became known as [[~~Mukhopadhyay~~]], [[~~Chattopadhyay~~]], [[~~Bandyopadhyay~~]], ~~and~~ [[~~Gangopadhyay~~ (surname)\|~~Gangopadhyay~~]], were each designated as ''Kulina'' ("superior") in order to differentiate them from the more established local Brahmins.<ref name="Bromley"/>		The five Brahmin clans, which later became known as [[Mukherjee]]s, [[Chatterjee]]s, [[Banerjee]]s, [[Ganguly (surname)\|Gangulys]] and [[Bhattacharjee]]s, were each designated as ''Kulina'' ("superior") in order to differentiate them from the more established local Brahmins.<ref name="Bromley"/>

	==See also==		==See also==

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{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}}
{{Hinduism}}
'''Kulin Brahmins''' are a relatively small subset of the [[Bengali Brahmins]] belonging to [[Hindu]] religion. They trace themselves to the four families of [[Kannauj]] in North India who migrated to Bengal.

==History==
After the decline of the Pala dynasty, a Hindu king, [[Adi Sura]] brought in four Brahmins from [[Kanauj]], his purpose being to provide education for the Brahmins already in the area whom he thought to be ignorant, and to revive traditional orthodox Brahminical Hinduism.<ref name=NKSenguptap25/> These Vedic Brahmins were supposed to have nine ''gunas'' (favoured attributes), among which was insistence on same rank marriages.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cwds.ac.in/ocpaper/reflectionsonkulinpolygamy.pdf |title=Reflections on Kulin Polygamy, p2 |access-date=29 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910041843/http://www.cwds.ac.in/ocpaper/reflectionsonkulinpolygamy.pdf |archive-date=10 September 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Multiple accounts of this legend exist.<ref name=NKSenguptap25>{{cite book |last=Sengupta|first=Nitish K. |title=History of the Bengali-Speaking People |publisher=UBS Publishers' Distributors |year=2001 |isbn=81-7476-355-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6eYsAAAAMAAJ |page=25}}</ref> The tradition continues by saying that these incomers settled and each became the founder of a clan.<ref name="Bromley">{{cite book |title=Krishna consciousness in the West |editor1-first=David G. |editor1-last=Bromley |editor2-first=Larry D. |editor2-last=Shinn |first=Thomas J. |last=Hopkins |chapter=The Social and Religious Background for Transmission of Gaudiya Vaisnavism to the West |publisher=Bucknell University Press |year=1989 |isbn=978-0-8387-5144-2 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F-EuD3M2QYoC&pg=PA35 |pages=35–36 |accessdate=31 October 2011}}</ref>

These four Brahmin clans, which later became known as [[Mukhopadhyay]], [[Chattopadhyay]], [[Bandyopadhyay]], and [[Gangopadhyay (surname)|Gangopadhyay]], were each designated as ''Kulina'' ("superior") in order to differentiate them from the more established local Brahmins.<ref name="Bromley"/>

==See also==
*[[Kulin Kayastha]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
*{{cite book |title=History of the Bengali-speaking People |first=Nitish |last=Sengupta |publisher=UBS Publishers' Distributors |year=2001 |isbn=8174763554}}

[[Category:Brahmin communities of West Bengal]]