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'''Tyagi''' Brahmins originally called Taga Gaur, is a class of [[Gaur | {{for|the 1992 film|Tyagi (film)}} | ||
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'''Tyagi''' [[Brahmin|Brahmins]] originally called Taga Gaur, is a class of [[Adi Gaur]] Brahmins also known as Haryanvi Gaurs.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Singh|first=Nagendra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jc8HEAAAQBAJ&dq=tyagi+brahmin&pg=PT39|title=Penumbra Snippets|date=2020-11-10|publisher=Blue Rose Publishers|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Bhattacharya|first=Jogendra Nath|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xlpLAAAAMAAJ&dq=adi+gaur&pg=PA52|title=Hindu Castes and Sects: An Exposition of the Origin of the Hindu Caste System and the Bearing of the Sects Towards Each Other and Towards Other Religious Systems|date=1896|publisher=Thacker, Spink|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Dasgupta|first=Swapan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gqXDwAAQBAJ&dq=tyagi+brahmin&pg=PT47|title=Awakening Bharat Mata: The Political Beliefs of the Indian Right|date=2019-05-25|publisher=Penguin Random House India Private Limited|isbn=978-93-5305-530-1|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Ray|first=Shovan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7zofAQAAIAAJ&q=tyagi+brahmin|title=Handbook of Agriculture in India|date=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-568673-9|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Bingley|first1=A. H.|url=http://archive.org/details/dli.csl.6008|title=Brahmans|last2=Nicholls|first2=A.|date=1897|publisher=Government Central Printing Office,Simla}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Commission|first=Haryana (India) Backward Classes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aH3aAAAAMAAJ&q=tyagi|title=Report of the Backward Classes Commission, 1990, Government of Haryana|date=1990|publisher=Controller of Printing and Stationery|language=en}}</ref>The landholding community is confined to [[Western Uttar Pradesh]], [[Haryana]], [[Delhi]] and [[Rajasthan]]. They are often considered the highest of the agricultural castes.<ref name="SociologicalStudyofFolklore">{{cite book|author=Satya Prakash Arya|title=Sociological Study of folklore|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X8bYAAAAMAAJ&q=a+Sociological+study+of+folklore|year=1975|publisher=Indian Publications|page=116}}</ref> As of a 1990 report by the Backward Classes Commission, Government of Haryana, they were mostly engaged in farming.<ref name="Commission1990">{{cite book|author=Haryana (India). Backward Classes Commission|title=Report of the Backward Classes Commission, 1990, Government of Haryana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aH3aAAAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Controller of Printing and Stationery|page=105}}</ref><ref name="PeopleandCultureofBengal">{{cite book|author=Annapurna Chattopadhyaya|title=The People and Culture of Bengal, A study in Origins|url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/The_People_and_Culture_of_Bengal_a_Study/MiRuAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0&bsq=the%20people%20and%20culture%20of%20bengal%20a%20study%20in%20origins|year=2002|publisher=Firma K.L.M.|page=489|isbn=9788171021444}}</ref> | |||
The name Tyagi is prevalent in both [[Hindu]] and [[Muslim]] communities.<ref name="ref62fibiy">{{Citation | title=Tribe, caste, and peasantry | author=Kripa Shankar Mathur, Binod C. Agrawal | year=1974 | publisher=Ethnographic & Folk Culture Society, U. P., 1974 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YnqwAAAAIAAJ |page=189 | quote=''... The present Hindu and Muslim Tyagis are the descendants of a common ancestor ...''}}</ref> Community members who converted to [[Islam]] are known as Muslim Tyagis,<ref name="ref06culiv">{{Citation | title=Rural-urban articulations | author=Brij Raj Chauhan, Unesco | year=1990 | publisher=A.C. Bros., 1990 | isbn=978-81-85489-01-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zenZAAAAMAAJ | quote=''... In Saharanpur district SC Dube described the Tyagi village where half of the population is of Muslim Tyagi and the other half of the Hindu Tyagi ...''}}</ref> Musalman Taga, Mahesra and Moolay Taga.<ref>''History of origin of some clans in India, with special reference to Jats'' (1992), Mangal Sen Jindal, Sarup & Sons, p. 159</ref> | |||
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[[Category:Brahmin communities of Haryana]] | |||