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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Mercantile group of Bengal}}<br />
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'''Suvarna Banik,''' popularly called Bene, is a mercantile group from [[Bengal]] dealing in gold and silver.<ref name="suvarna">{{cite web|last1=Rudra|first1=Arya|title=Baniks of Bengal|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Baniks-of-Bengal/articleshow/1226860775.cms|website=timesofindia.indiatimes.com/|publisher=TOI|accessdate=20 March 2015}}</ref> By late eighteenth century Bengali merchants of Suvarnabanik caste became prominent in trade by dealing in salt and opium.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Roy|first=Tirthankar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8T6dg06zC1EC&dq=suvarna+banik&pg=PT101|title=The East India Company: The World's Most Powerful Corporation|date=2016-01-15|publisher=Penguin UK|isbn=978-81-8475-613-5|language=en}}</ref> Despite their depressed status, they were the most well known trading caste in Bengal.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Commissioner|first=India Census|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hXaDGOLYpRcC&q=suvarna+banik|title=Census of India, 1951: West Bengal, Sikkim, and Chandernagore|date=1952|publisher=Manager of Publications|language=en}}</ref> <br />
== Notable Peoples ==<br />
* [[A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada]](1896-1977):Founder of [[International Society for Krishna Consciousness]](ISKCON)<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-07-27|title=Interview with Srila Prabhupada's Grand-Nephew - Sankarsan Prabhu|url=http://bvml.org/contemporary/sankarsan.html|access-date=2021-11-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170727173533/http://bvml.org/contemporary/sankarsan.html|archive-date=2017-07-27}}</ref><br />
*[[Mutty Lall Seal]], Indian businessman and philanthropist<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Subarnabaniks « Mutty Lall Seal|url=http://www.motilalseal.com/msp/subarnabanik/|access-date=2021-11-21|language=en}}</ref><br />
*[[Ramdulal Sarkar|Ramdulal Sarkar(Dey)]], Indian merchant<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Subarnabaniks « Mutty Lall Seal|url=http://www.motilalseal.com/msp/subarnabanik/|access-date=2021-11-21|language=en}}</ref><br />
*[[Rajendra Mullick]], Indian art lover and philanthropist,<ref name=":0" /> builder of [[Marble Palace (Kolkata)]]<br />
*[[Lal Behari Dey|Lal Behari Dey(Mondal)]], Indian Writer and Journalist<ref>{{Cite book|last=Roy|first=Samaren|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p_EaPju60k0C|title=The Bengalees: Glimpses of History and Culture|date=1999|publisher=Allied Publishers|isbn=978-81-7023-981-9|pages=59|language=en}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:Bengali Hindu castes]]<br />
[[Category:Social groups of West Bengal]]</div>->Citation bot