Kanyakubja Brahmin
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]
| 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 |
Social status
In states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, they are considered the highest class of Brahmins.[7][8]
Notable people
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister of India[9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bengali Brahmins
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kulin Brahmin
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Sengupta, Nitish K. (2001). History of the Bengali-Speaking People. UBS Publishers' Distributors. p. 25. ISBN 81-7476-355-4.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Upinder Singh (2008). A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India. Pearson Education India. p. 575. ISBN 9788131711200.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Kumar Suresh Singh (2008). People of India: Bihar (2 pts.). Anthropological Survey of India. p. 447. ISBN 9788170463023.
- ↑ N.K Singh (31 May 1996). "Atal Bihari Vajpayee: A private person with strong dislikes and few close friends". India Today.
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