Kanyakubja Brahmin

Kanyakubja Brahmin
Regions with significant populations
	Uttar Pradesh • Madhya Pradesh • West Bengal • Chhattisgarh • Jharkhand • Bihar • Assam • Tripura
Languages
	Hindi • Bhojpuri • Bengali • 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[edit]

In states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, they are considered the highest class of Brahmins. Except the areas where Gaurs Brahmins reside like Western Uttar Pradesh^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]

Notable people[edit]

Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister of India^[11]

References[edit]

↑ ^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.
↑ https://books.google.co.in/books?id=XyCBDwAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PT80&dq=anomalies+have+always+have+been+there+regarding+rank&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=anomalies%20have%20always%20have%20been%20there%20regarding%20rank&f=false
↑ https://books.google.co.in/books?id=gf1m6isJ8JgC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&dq=Dichhat+are+known+as+Gaur+Brahmins++Chhajwan+,+Ror+and+Sitya+have+a+lower+social+status&q=Dichhat+are+known+as+Gaur+Brahmins++Chhajwan+,+Ror+and+Sitya+have+a+lower+social+status&hl=en&redir_esc=y
↑ 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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[Bengali_Brahmins-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Bengali Brahmins

[Kulin_Brahmin-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.

[NKSenguptap25-4] 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.

[US_2008-6] 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] ttps://books.google.co.in/books?id=XyCBDwAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PT80&dq=anomalies+have+always+have+been+there+regarding+rank&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=anomalies%20have%20always%20have%20been%20there%20regarding%20rank&f=false

[10] ttps://books.google.co.in/books?id=gf1m6isJ8JgC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&dq=Dichhat+are+known+as+Gaur+Brahmins++Chhajwan+,+Ror+and+Sitya+have+a+lower+social+status&q=Dichhat+are+known+as+Gaur+Brahmins++Chhajwan+,+Ror+and+Sitya+have+a+lower+social+status&hl=en&redir_esc=y

[11] 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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