|
Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit nowiki added references removed |
| (8 intermediate revisions by 8 users not shown) |
| Line 1: |
Line 1: |
| {{pp-pc1}} | | {{Short description|Indian caste}} |
| | {{pp-extended|small=yes}} |
| {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} | | {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} |
| '''Sainthwar''', also known as '''Mall''',<ref>{{cite book |author=Subodh Kapoor |title=Encyclopaedia of Ancient Indian Geography |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8897ridkczoC&pg=PA413%7Cyear%3D2002%7Cpublisher%3DCosmo+Publications%7Cisbn%3D978-81-7755-299-7%7Cpages%3D413%E2%80%93%7D%7D%3C%2Fref%3E |year=2002 |publisher=Cosmo |isbn=978-81-7755-299-7 |page=413 }}</ref> is an [[Indian caste]] of landholders<ref name="Shahid_1995">{{cite book |author=Shahid Amin |title=Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura, 1922-1992 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pbYwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA33 |year=1995 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-08780-4 |page=33 |quote=Sainthwar: a Kshtriya caste of landholders, closely related to the Rajput}}</ref> native to the [[Uttar Pradesh]] state.<ref name="KSS_OUP_1998">{{cite book |editor=Kumar Suresh Singh |title=India's Communities |volume=A-G |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g9MVAQAAMAAJ |year=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-563354-2 |page=2163 }}</ref> | | The '''Sainthwar''', or '''Mall''', is an [[Indian]] [[caste]] of [[Zamindar|Landholders]]<ref><nowiki>https://books.google.co.in/books?id=Ck4jmD7H34UC&pg=PA58&dq=g+n+dutt&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WNATUcePK8nZrQfcoIGABg#v=onepage&q=g%2520n%2520dutt&f=false</nowiki></ref> native to the [[Uttar Pradesh]] state.<ref name="KSS_OUP_1998">{{cite book |editor=Kumar Suresh Singh |title=India's Communities |volume=A-G |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g9MVAQAAMAAJ |year=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-563354-2 |page=2163 }}</ref> |
| | |
| The Sainthwars are closely related to the [[Rajput]]s,<ref name="Shahid_1995"/> and are sometimes described as a division of the Rajput caste.<ref name="Paul_1987">{{cite book |editor1=Paul R. Brass |editor2=Francis Robinson |title=The Indian National Congress and Indian society, 1885-1985: ideology, social structure, and political dominance |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9BJuAAAAMAAJ |year=1987 |publisher=Chanakya |isbn=9788170010265 }}</ref> The Sainthwars are known as "Mall" ("prosperous") as opposed to the historically poorer Kurmis.<ref name="KSS_OUP_1998"/> They are the dominant landholding caste in some districts of Uttar Pradesh.<ref name="Paul_1987"/>
| |
| | |
| The oral tradition of the Sainthwars traces their ancestry to Chandraketu, a son of the legendary hero [[Lakshmana]].<ref name="KSS_OUP_1998"/>
| |
| | |
| ==References== | | ==References== |
| {{Reflist}} | | {{Reflist}} |
|
| |
|
| [[Category:Social groups of Uttar Pradesh]] | | [[Category:Social groups of Uttar Pradesh]] |
| | | [[Category:Agricultural castes]] |
| {{India-ethno-stub}} Gorakhpur Janpad aur uski kshtriya jatiyo ka itihas
| | [[Category:Hindu communities]] |
Indian caste
The Sainthwar, or Mall, is an Indian caste of Landholders[1] native to the Uttar Pradesh state.[2]
- ↑ https://books.google.co.in/books?id=Ck4jmD7H34UC&pg=PA58&dq=g+n+dutt&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WNATUcePK8nZrQfcoIGABg#v=onepage&q=g%2520n%2520dutt&f=false
- ↑ Kumar Suresh Singh, ed. (1998). India's Communities. Vol. A–G. Oxford University Press. p. 2163. ISBN 978-0-19-563354-2.
