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{{short description|Brahmin community}}
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| group            = [[Pancha Gauda]] Brahmin
| group            = Kanyakubja Brahmin
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| popplace        = [[Uttar Pradesh]] • [[Madhya Pradesh]] • [[Chhattisgarh]] • [[Jharkhand]] • [[West Bengal]] • [[Bihar]] • [[Assam]] • [[Tripura]]
| popplace        = [[Uttar Pradesh]] • [[Madhya Pradesh]] • [[West Bengal]]<ref name="Bengali Brahmins">[[Bengali Brahmins]]</ref><ref name="Kulin Brahmin">[[Kulin Brahmin]]</ref><ref>{{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> • [[Chhattisgarh]] • [[Jharkhand]] • [[Bihar]] • [[Assam]]<ref name="Bengali Brahmins"></ref> • [[Tripura]]
| langs            = [[Sanskrit language|Sanskrit]] (traditional) • [[Hindi language|Hindi]] • [[Bhojpuri language|Bhojpuri]] • [[Bengali language|Bengali]] • [[Indo-Aryan languages|other Indo-Aryan languages]]
| langs            = [[Hindi language|Hindi]] • [[Bhojpuri language|Bhojpuri]] • [[Bengali language|Bengali]]<ref name="Kulin Brahmin"></ref><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> • [[Indo-Aryan languages|other Indo-Aryan languages]]
| rels            = [[Hinduism]]
| rels            = [[Hinduism]]
| related          = [[Saraswat Brahmins]] • [[Gauda Brahmins]] • [[Maithil Brahmins]] • [[Utkala Brahmins]]
| related          = [[Saraswat Brahmins]] • [[Gauda Brahmins]] • [[Maithil Brahmins]] • [[Bengali Brahmins]] • [[Utkala Brahmins]]
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'''Kanyakubja Brahmins''' are an [[endogamy|endogamous]]<ref>{{cite journal |author=Suhasini Bhatnagar and Suraksha Agrawal |title=Surname Endogamy among the Brahmin of India |journal=Current Sociology |year=2016 |volume=50|issue=6 |pages=853–861 |doi=10.1177/0011392102050006005 |s2cid=145181320 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0011392102050006005#:~:text=The%20groups%20are%20all%20subdivisions,groups%20practise%20patrilineal%20surname%20endogamy}}</ref> [[Brahmin]] community mainly found in northern [[India]]. They are classified as one of the [[Pancha Gauda]] Brahmin communities native to the north of the [[Vindhyas]].<ref name="US_2008">{{cite book  |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H3lUIIYxWkEC&pg=PA575 |title=A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India |author=Upinder Singh |publisher=Pearson Education India |year=2008 |isbn=9788131711200|page=575 }}</ref>


'''Kanyakubja Brahmins''', are a [[Brahmin]] community  mainly found in northern [[India]]. They are classified as one of the [[Pancha Gauda]] Brahmin communities native to the north of the [[Vindhyas]].<ref name="US_2008">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H3lUIIYxWkEC&pg=PA381 |title=A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India |author=Upinder Singh |publisher=Pearson Education India |year=2008 |isbn=9788131711200 |page=575 }}</ref>
==Social status==
In states like [[Uttar Pradesh]] and [[Bihar]], they are considered the highest class of Brahmins.<ref>{{cite book|title=Uttar Pradesh : General Background Opposition in a Dominant Party System A Study of the Jan Sangh, the Praja Socialist Party, and the Socialist Party in Uttar Pradesh, India|page=27|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v3d2EAAAQBAJ&dq=kanyakubja+brahmins+social+status&pg=PA27|author=Angela S. Burger|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520365568|year=2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dw8wAQAAIAAJ&q=Kanyakubja+highest+class+bihar|title=People of India: Bihar (2 pts.)|page=447|author=Kumar Suresh Singh|year=2008|publisher=Anthropological Survey of India|isbn=9788170463023 }}</ref>


Sub-groups of this community include the [[Saryupareen Brahmin]]s and the [[Jujhautiya Brahmin]]s<ref>People of India Uttar Pradesh Volume XLII Part Two edited by A Hasan & J C Das pages 718 to 724 Manohar Publications</ref> among others.
==Notable people==
* [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]], former [[Prime Minister]] of India<ref>{{cite news|agency=[[India Today]]|date=31 May 1996|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/19960531-atal-bihari-vajpayee-a-private-person-with-strong-dislikes-and-few-close-friends-832968-1996-05-30|title=Atal Bihari Vajpayee: A private person with strong dislikes and few close friends|author=N.K Singh}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}
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[[Category:Brahmin communities of Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Brahmin communities of Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Brahmin communities of Bihar]]
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[[Category:Brahmin communities of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Brahmin communities of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Brahmin communities of Assam]]
[[Category:Brahmin communities of Assam]]
[[Category:Indian castes]]


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Kanyakubja Brahmin
Regions with significant populations
Uttar Pradesh • Madhya Pradesh • West Bengal[1][2][3] • Chhattisgarh • Jharkhand • Bihar • Assam[1] • Tripura
Languages
Hindi • Bhojpuri • Bengali[2][4] • other Indo-Aryan languages
Religion
Hinduism
Related ethnic groups
Saraswat Brahmins • Gauda Brahmins • Maithil Brahmins • Bengali Brahmins • Utkala Brahmins

Kanyakubja Brahmins are an endogamous[5] Brahmin community mainly found in northern India. They are classified as one of the Pancha Gauda Brahmin communities native to the north of the Vindhyas.[6]

Social status

In states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, they are considered the highest class of Brahmins.[7][8]

Notable people

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bengali Brahmins
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kulin Brahmin
  3. ↑ Hopkins, Thomas J. (1989). "The Social and Religious Background for Transmission of Gaudiya Vaisnavism to the West". In Bromley, David G.; Shinn, Larry D. (eds.). Krishna consciousness in the West. Bucknell University Press. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-0-8387-5144-2. Retrieved 31 October 2011.
  4. ↑ Sengupta, Nitish K. (2001). History of the Bengali-Speaking People. UBS Publishers' Distributors. p. 25. ISBN 81-7476-355-4.
  5. ↑ Suhasini Bhatnagar and Suraksha Agrawal (2016). "Surname Endogamy among the Brahmin of India". Current Sociology. 50 (6): 853–861. doi:10.1177/0011392102050006005. S2CID 145181320.
  6. ↑ Upinder Singh (2008). A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India. Pearson Education India. p. 575. ISBN 9788131711200.
  7. ↑ Angela S. Burger (2022). Uttar Pradesh : General Background Opposition in a Dominant Party System A Study of the Jan Sangh, the Praja Socialist Party, and the Socialist Party in Uttar Pradesh, India. University of California Press. p. 27. ISBN 9780520365568.
  8. ↑ Kumar Suresh Singh (2008). People of India: Bihar (2 pts.). Anthropological Survey of India. p. 447. ISBN 9788170463023.
  9. ↑ N.K Singh (31 May 1996). "Atal Bihari Vajpayee: A private person with strong dislikes and few close friends". India Today.