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| | #REDIRECT [[Bengali Brahmin#Kulin Brahmin]] |
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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.
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| ==History==
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| 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>
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| 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"/>
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| ==See also==
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| *[[Kulin Kayastha]]
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| ==References==
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| ==Further reading==
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| *{{cite book |title=History of the Bengali-speaking People |first=Nitish |last=Sengupta |publisher=UBS Publishers' Distributors |year=2001 |isbn=8174763554}}
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