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	'''Srivastava''' ({{IPA-hi\|ʃɾiːʋaːstəʋ}}; {{IAST\|Śrīvāstava}}), also spelled variously as '''Shrivastava''', '''Shrivastav''' or '''Srivastav''', is a common surname mainly found amongst the [[Chitraguptavanshi Kayastha]] community of upper caste [[Hindus]]<ref>{{Cite journal\|last=Srivastava\|first=Vinay Kumar\|date=September 2016\|title=Speaking of Caste: Merit of the Principle of Segmentation\|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038022920160302\|journal=Sociological Bulletin\|volume=65\|issue=3\|pages=317–338\|doi=10.1177/0038022920160302\|issn=0038-0229}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal\|date=2015-06-05\|title=Caste and the Power Elite in Allahabad\|url=https://www.epw.in/journal/2015/6/special-articles/caste-and-power-elite-allahabad.html\|journal=Economic and Political Weekly\|language=en\|volume=50\|issue=6\|pages=7–8}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|last1=Dec 19\|first1=Shibu Thomas / TNN /\|last2=2009\|last3=Ist\|first3=04:26\|title=woman: HC to decide woman's caste abuse case against husband {{!}} Mumbai News - Times of India\|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/hc-to-decide-womans-caste-abuse-case-against-husband/articleshow/5354374.cms\|access-date=2021-04-02\|website=The Times of India\|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|title=Kayasth\|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Kayasth\|url-status=live\|access-date=28 June 2021\|website=Merriam Webster}}</ref> particularly in the [[Hindi Belt\|Hindi-speaking]] regions of India.<ref name=carroll>{{Cite book \| year=1977 \| author=Lucy Carroll \| contribution=Caste, Community and Caste(s) Association: A Note on the Organization of the Kayastha Conference and the Definition of a Kayastha Community \| title = Contributions to Asian studies, Volume 10 \| publisher=Brill Archive \| isbn=978-90-04-04926-0 \| page=3 \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VRMVAAAAIAAJ&q=srivastavas&pg=PA9 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book\|author=Hayden J. Bellenoit\|title=The Formation of the Colonial State in India: Scribes, Paper and Taxes, 1760–1860\|date=17 February 2017\|publisher=Taylor & Francis\|isbn=978-1-134-49429-3}}</ref>		'''Srivastava''' ({{IPA-hi\|ʃɾiːʋaːstəʋ}}; {{IAST\|Śrīvāstava}}), also spelled variously as '''Shrivastava''', '''Shrivastav''' or '''Srivastav''', is a common surname mainly found amongst the [[Chitraguptavanshi Kayastha]] community of upper caste [[Hindus]]<ref>{{Cite journal\|last=Srivastava\|first=Vinay Kumar\|date=September 2016\|title=Speaking of Caste: Merit of the Principle of Segmentation\|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038022920160302\|journal=Sociological Bulletin\|volume=65\|issue=3\|pages=317–338\|doi=10.1177/0038022920160302\|issn=0038-0229}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal\|date=2015-06-05\|title=Caste and the Power Elite in Allahabad\|url=https://www.epw.in/journal/2015/6/special-articles/caste-and-power-elite-allahabad.html\|journal=Economic and Political Weekly\|language=en\|volume=50\|issue=6\|pages=7–8}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|last1=Dec 19\|first1=Shibu Thomas / TNN /\|last2=2009\|last3=Ist\|first3=04:26\|title=woman: HC to decide woman's caste abuse case against husband {{!}} Mumbai News - Times of India\|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/hc-to-decide-womans-caste-abuse-case-against-husband/articleshow/5354374.cms\|access-date=2021-04-02\|website=The Times of India\|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|title=Kayasth\|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Kayasth\|url-status=live\|access-date=28 June 2021\|website=Merriam Webster}}</ref> particularly in the [[Hindi Belt\|Hindi-speaking]] regions of India.<ref name=carroll>{{Cite book \| year=1977 \| author=Lucy Carroll \| contribution=Caste, Community and Caste(s) Association: A Note on the Organization of the Kayastha Conference and the Definition of a Kayastha Community \| title = Contributions to Asian studies, Volume 10 \| publisher=Brill Archive \| isbn=978-90-04-04926-0 \| page=3 \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VRMVAAAAIAAJ&q=srivastavas&pg=PA9 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book\|author=Hayden J. Bellenoit\|title=The Formation of the Colonial State in India: Scribes, Paper and Taxes, 1760–1860\|date=17 February 2017\|publisher=Taylor & Francis\|isbn=978-1-134-49429-3}}</ref>

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'''Srivastava''' ({{IPA-hi|ʃɾiːʋaːstəʋ}}; {{IAST|Śrīvāstava}}), also spelled variously as '''Shrivastava''', '''Shrivastav''' or '''Srivastav''', is a common surname mainly found amongst the [[Chitraguptavanshi Kayastha]] community of upper caste [[Hindus]]<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Srivastava|first=Vinay Kumar|date=September 2016|title=Speaking of Caste: Merit of the Principle of Segmentation|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038022920160302|journal=Sociological Bulletin|volume=65|issue=3|pages=317–338|doi=10.1177/0038022920160302|issn=0038-0229}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=2015-06-05|title=Caste and the Power Elite in Allahabad|url=https://www.epw.in/journal/2015/6/special-articles/caste-and-power-elite-allahabad.html|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|language=en|volume=50|issue=6|pages=7–8}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last1=Dec 19|first1=Shibu Thomas / TNN /|last2=2009|last3=Ist|first3=04:26|title=woman: HC to decide woman's caste abuse case against husband {{!}} Mumbai News - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/hc-to-decide-womans-caste-abuse-case-against-husband/articleshow/5354374.cms|access-date=2021-04-02|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Kayasth|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Kayasth|url-status=live|access-date=28 June 2021|website=Merriam Webster}}</ref> particularly in the [[Hindi Belt|Hindi-speaking]] regions of India.<ref name=carroll>{{Cite book | year=1977 | author=Lucy Carroll | contribution=Caste, Community and Caste(s) Association: A Note on the Organization of the Kayastha Conference and the Definition of a Kayastha Community | title = Contributions to Asian studies, Volume 10 | publisher=Brill Archive | isbn=978-90-04-04926-0 | page=3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VRMVAAAAIAAJ&q=srivastavas&pg=PA9 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Hayden J. Bellenoit|title=The Formation of the Colonial State in India: Scribes, Paper and Taxes, 1760–1860|date=17 February 2017|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-134-49429-3}}</ref>

==Origin==
Srivastavas are one of the twelve sub-clans of the [[Chitraguptvanshi Kayastha]]s that were traditionally involved in record-keeping, administration and military services. The clan was influential during Ancient empires and Mughal empire in the Indian subcontinent, earning such titles as [[Pandit]], [[Thakur (title)|Thakur]] and [[Lala (title)|Lala]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MihuAAAAMAAJ|title=The Kāyasthas: a study in the formation and early history of a caste|last=Gupta|first=Chitrarekha|date=1996|publisher=K.P. Bagchi & Co.|isbn=9788170741565|pages=117|language=en|quote=This love and respect for knowledge were nothing special with the line of Jajuka. Rather, these were general features of the characters of the Sri-Vastavyas}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=SHAH|first=K.K.|date=1993|title=Self Legitimation and Social Primacy: A Case Study of Some Kayastha Inscriptions From Central India|journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress|volume=54|pages=860–861|jstor=44143088|issn=2249-1937|quote=Vastavya, therefore, will have to be taken as a sub-caste a few members of which rose to very high positions in the administrative hierarchy of the Chandella kingdom. Two families from this branch of the Kayasthas have left three inscriptions for us containing an account of the mythical origin as also genealogical tree in order to establish their high Brahminic credentials...It is also noteworthy that both Jajuka and Maheshvara have remarkable military achievements to their credit which could put them on par with the Kshatriyas.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a9j9ZJGJOV0C|title=The Candellas of Jejākabhukti|last=Dikshit|first=R. K.|date=1976|publisher=Abhinav Publications|isbn=978-81-7017-046-4|pages=71, 173–175, 190|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=irHN2UA_Z7gC|title=The Early Rulers of Khajuraho|last=Mitra|first=Sisir Kumar|date=1977|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publ.|isbn=978-81-208-1997-9|pages=180|language=en|edition=Second Revised}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZUt3wgEACAAJ|title=Socio-economic History of Northern India: (1030 - 1194 A.D.)|last=Mazumdar|first=Bhakat Prasad|date=1960|publisher=Mukhopadhyay|pages=101–103|language=en|chapter=Castes and Professions|quote=Members of Vastavya community rose to very high positions. They enjoyed the feudatory status of Thakkura under the Gahadavala Kings under Govindachandra and Jayachandra, and the Chandela King Bhojavarman...It is possible that because of their services, the king raised them to a higher status...His brothers, Jaundhara and Maladhara were valiant warriors...The history of these two families show that the Vastavyas could become valiant soldiers.}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZUt3wgEACAAJ|title=Socio-economic History of Northern India: (1030 - 1194 A.D.)|last=Mazumdar|first=Bhakat Prasad|date=1960|publisher=Mukhopadhyay|pages=100|language=en|quote=Three inscriptions written by these Vastavya Kayasthas for the Gahadavala kings Govindachandra and Jayachandra and also the Sahet Mahet inscription dated 1276 VS/1219-29 A.D....Nana's ancestors were inhabitants of Kausamyapura or Kosam in the Allahabad district originally.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ryhuAAAAMAAJ|title=Kayasthas in making of modern Bihar|last=Sinha|first=Bindeshwari Prasad|date=2003|publisher=Impression Publication|pages=13|language=en|quote=Banaras plate of Govinchandra refers to Vastavya Kayastha.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EJQBAAAAMAAJ|title=The History of the Gāhaḍavāla Dynasty|last=Niyogi|first=Roma|date=1959|publisher=Oriental Book Agency|pages=212|language=en|quote=It also contains a statue of Vastavya-Kayastha Thakkura Sri-Ranapala (in a soldier's outfit) who appears to have built...}}</ref> The script used by the Kayasthas in medieval times is called [[Kaithi]] and is a descendant of the Gupta and Brahmi scripts.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19472498.2014.969013?forwardService=showFullText&tokenAccess=sVutedPHyAb8P3Bex9c7&tokenDomain=eprints&doi=10.1080%2F19472498.2014.969013&doi=10.1080%2F19472498.2014.969013&journalCode=rsac20|title=Discourses of caste over the longue durée: Gopīnātha and social classification in India, ca. 1400–1900|last=OHanlon|first=Rosalind|journal=South Asian History and Culture|publisher=Oxford University|year=2014|volume=6|page=102 to 129|doi=10.1080/19472498.2014.969013|quote="On the 18th of October 1779, an assembly of learned Brahman in Banaras despatched a lengthy Sanskrit letter of ..."}}</ref><ref name="MiltonWagle">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/religionsocietyi00isra/page/173/mode/1up|title=Religion and Society in Maharashtra|editor=Milton Israel and N.K.Wagle|publisher=Center for South Asian Studies, University of Toronto, Canada|year= 1987|page=173| quote= The Shankaracharya's letter contains three documents which he produces verbatim, two from Banares Brahmins(1779, 1801)..}}</ref><ref name = "Novetzke">{{cite book| author = Christian Lee Noverzke|title = The Qutodian revolution : Vernacularization, Religion, and the Premodern Public Sphere in India, part 2| page = 159 | publisher = Columbia University Press | year =2016|quote=In the thirteenth century they might have been considered as equal to brahmin or simply within the Brahminic ecumene}}</ref>

== Etymology ==
The title ''Śrīvāstava'' is the shortened form of ''Śrīvāstavya''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4dm1AAAAIAAJ&q=vastavya+srivastava|title=Late classical India|last=Bose|first=Mainak Kumar|date=1988|publisher=A. Mukherjee & Co.|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LpeFAAAAIAAJ&q=vastavya+kayasth&pg=PA58|title=Report for the Year 1871-72|last=Cunningham|first=Sir Alexander|date=1873|publisher=Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing|language=en}}</ref> and thus derived directly from the [[Sanskrit]] root words ''Sri'' (<span lang="sa" dir="ltr">श्री</span>) "God" and ''vás'' (<span lang="sa" dir="ltr">वास्</span>) "to dwell" by adding the primary suffix ''tavyat'' which denotes an agent and causes the lengthening of the radical vowel. While the word Sri is used in Sanskrit as honorific prefix to the names of deities ''<ref name=Apte>{{cite book|last=Apte|first=Vaman Shivaram|title=Revised and enlarged edition of Prin. V. S. Apte's The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary|year=1957–59|publisher=Prasad Prakashan|page=1575|quote=The word श्री is often used as an honorific prefix to the names of deities and eminent persons; श्रीकृष्णः, श्रीरामः, श्रिवाल्मीकिः, श्रीजयदेवः; also celebrated works, generally of a sacred character; श्रीभागवत, श्रीरामायण)&c.; it is also used as an auspicious sign at the commencement of letters, manuscripts &c}}</ref> and vāstavya'' means "a resident, inhabitant";<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XvRtAAAAMAAJ&q=vastavya|title=Bhāratīya Vidyā|date=1987|publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.|language=en}}</ref> thereby the whole meaning "in whom God dwells".

According to another explanation, the name "Srivastava" originates from "Srivastu/Suvastu", the former name of the [[Swat River]], which is said to be the place of origin of this clan.<ref>{{cite book | title = Encyclopaedia Indica: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh: Volume 100 | editor = S. S. Shashi | year = 1996 | page = 117 | publisher = Anmol | isbn = 978-81-7041-859-7 }}</ref>

==Notable people with this name==

Notable people named Srivastava (or its variations) include:
* [[Aadesh Shrivastava]] (1966–2015), Indian music director
* [[Kapil Srivastava]], Indian guitarist, music composer, educationist & author
* [[Aanjjan Srivastav]] (born 1948), Indian film, television and stage dancer/actor
* [[Aditya Shrivastava]] (born 1968), Indian actor
* [[Alankrita Shrivastava]] (born 1979), Indian filmmaker
* [[Anand & Milind Shrivastav]], Indian music directors
* [[Ashirbadi Lal Srivastava]] (1899–1973), Indian historian
* [[Chandrika Prasad Srivastava]] (1920–2013), Indian diplomat
* [[Chitragupta Shrivastava]], Indian music director
* [[Dheer Charan Srivastav]] (born 1967), Indian actor
* [[Ganesh Prasad Srivastava]] (1933–2011), physicist, author
* [[Hari Shankar Srivastava]] (1921-2017), Indian historian
* [[Harish Chandra Srivastava]], Indian politician
* [[J. N. Srivastava]] (1933–2010), Indian mathematician
* [[Maharishi Mahesh Yogi]] (1918–2008, recorded by Allahabad University as "M.C. Shrivastava"), introduced [[Transcendental Meditation]]
* [[Mansi Srivastava]] (born 1990), Indian TV actress
* [[Nikhil Srivastava]], Indian mathematician
* [[Nirmala Srivastava]] (1923–2011), founder of Sahaja Yoga
* [[Onkar Nath Srivastava]] (born 1942), Indian physicist
* [[Dr. Rajendra Prasad]] (3 December 1884 – 28 February 1963) was the first President of India, in office from 1950 to 1962.
* [[Rajendra Srivastava]] (born 1951), Indian academic
* [[Raju Srivastav]] (born 1963), Indian comedian
*[[Ramesh Srivastava]] (born 1983), American singer
* [[Sanjeev Srivastava]], Indian journalist
* [[Shailendra Nath Shrivastava]] (1936–2006), Indian politician
* [[Tara Rani Srivastava]], Indian woman freedom fighter


; Notable Srivastavas who changed their name
* [[Amitabh Bachchan]] (born 1942), born as Amitabh Srivastava, Bollywood actor
* [[Harivansh Rai Bachchan]] (1907–2003), born as Harivansh Rai Srivastava, Indian poet
* [[Madan Mohan Malaviya]] (1861-1964), founder of [[Banaras Hindu University]]
* [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]] (1904–1966), second Prime Minister of India, son of Sharada Prasad Srivastava
* [[Zamindaar Babu Trilok Nath]] (1866–1960, born Trilok Nath Shrivastav), prince of British India
* [[Parichay Das]], writer and editor, born Ravindra Nath Srivastava
* [[Natwarlal]] (1912–2009), born Mithilesh Kumar Srivastava, Indian con man
* [[Jayaprakash Narayan]] (1902–1979, son of Harsu Dayal Srivastava), Indian independence activist, social reformer and political leader
* [[Munshi Premchand]] (1880–1936, born Dhanpat Rai Srivastava), Indian writer


==References==
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