Bairagi (caste): Difference between revisions

'''Bairagi''' is a Section of [[Hindu]] [[Brahmins]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Global Prayer Digest|url=http://www.globalprayerdigest.org/issue/day/Bairagi-Brahmins/|access-date=2021-06-14|website=www.globalprayerdigest.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Jha|first=Makhan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Jk6oE4sh18C|title=India and Nepal: Sacred Centres and Anthropological Researches|date=1998|publisher=M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.|isbn=978-81-7533-081-8|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Singh 1998">{{Cite book|last1=Singh|first1=K. S.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iKsqzB4P1ioC|title=Rajasthan|last2=Lavania|first2=B. K.|date=1998|publisher=Popular Prakashan|isbn=978-81-7154-766-1|language=en}}</ref> It is also known by other names including '''Vaishnav Brahmin''', '''Swami''', '''Mahant''' and '''Pujari''' at different places in India.<ref name="Ph.D">{{Cite book|last=Ph.D|first=James G. Lochtefeld|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g6FsB3psOTIC|title=The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Volume 2|date=2001-12-15|publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc|isbn=978-0-8239-3180-4|language=en}}</ref> They are particularly [[priest]]s<ref name="bhaskar.com">https://www.bhaskar.com/RAJ-OTH-MAT-latest-bhinmal-news-024003-969007-NOR.html/</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=वैष्णव बैरागी समाज ने जिला कलक्टर को सौंपा ज्ञापन|url=https://www.patrika.com/bundi-news/bundi-news-bundi-rajasthan-news-vaishnav-bairagi-society-memorandum-4968389/|access-date=2021-06-15|website=Patrika News|language=hindi}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Ḍabarāla|first=Śivaprasāda|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=40tuAAAAMAAJ|title=Uttarākhaṇda kā itihāsa: Uttarakhanda ke abhilekha evam mudra|date=1965|publisher=Vīra-Gāthā-Prakāśana|language=hi}}</ref> and [[Land ownership|land owners]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-05-09|title=ताजमहल से जुड़ी है बैरागी परंपरा|url=https://www.jansatta.com/religion/on-6-january-1562-jodhbai-the-granddaughter-of-rani-balan-bai-and-daughter-of-raja-bharatmal-was-married-to-akbar-king-prithviraj-had-given-the-manor-of-parbatsar-to-his-junior-son-rupasi-bairagi-rupa/1714355/|access-date=2021-06-14|website=Jansatta|language=hi}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Singh|first1=K. S.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g9MVAQAAMAAJ|title=India's Communities|last2=India|first2=Anthropological Survey of|date=1998|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-563354-2|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=IBBETSON|first=DENZIL CHARLES JELF|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rJoIAAAAQAAJ|title=REPORT ON THE REVISION OF SETTLEMENT OF THE PANIPAT TAHSIL & KARNAL PARGANAH OF THE KARNAL DISTRICT|date=1883|language=en}}</ref> They follow one of the Four [[Vaishnava]] orders: the [[Visishtadvaita]] belief system of [[Ramanuja]] (popularized by [[Ramananda]] in [[North India]]), the [[Dvaitadvaita]] philosophy propagated by [[Nimbarkacharya]], the [[Shuddhadvaita]] philosophy propagated by [[Vishnuswami]] (mostly popularised by [[Vallabhacharya]] in North India), or the [[Dvaita]] philosophy propagated by [[Madhvacharya]]. The '''Bairagi caste''' is composed of respectable people.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Cust|first=Robert Needham|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x9qUaCuqpIgC|title=Linguistic and Oriental Essays|date=1880|publisher=Trübner & Company|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=General|first=India Office of the Registrar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6f8cAQAAMAAJ|title=Census of India, 1961|date=1966|publisher=Manager of Publications|language=en}}</ref>