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| <big>The</big> '''Chain''' or '''Chai''' are a '''Kshatriya''' caste and are mainly found in Bihar , Jharkhand , Odisha , Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal . They are traditionally associated with agriculture and fishing.
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| == History ==
| | The '''Chain''' or '''Chai''' are a caste mainly found in Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. They are traditionally associated with agriculture and fishing. |
| The old identity of this community is '''Chandravanshi Kshatriya Rajput''' now known as '''Chain''' or '''Chai'''. | |
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| King ManSingh and '''Chain''' or '''Chai''' Community :- There were three regional powers during the Mughal period. Akbar, the Mughal emperor of Delhi, was the head of the three regional powers of Bengal, Hyderabad and Ayodhya. Akbar's reign lasted from 1556 to 1604.
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| | | In West Bengal, although the Chain community is widely dispersed through the state, the Government granted Scheduled Castes (SC) status only to Chain members in four districts: Malda, Murshidabad, Nadia and Dakshin Dinajpur. Accordingly, the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 specifically reported the Chain only in these locations. The total Chain population in West Bengal is more than 3.5 million and the Chain population in India is estimated to be around 10 million. The National Commission for Scheduled Castes was reported in 2015 to be initiating a process to extend SC status to the community throughout West Bengal. |
| Akbar appointed the '''Rajput''' king ManSingh as Subedar of Bihar in 1588, then he was given the post of commander in the Mughal court. During this Mughal period, Bengal's revenue or taxes transported millions of rupees from Dhaka, Rajshahi, Murshidabad and Rajmahal across the Ganges to the Mughal court in Delhi. Akbar suspected that the tax money would be looted from the river. He realized there was a robbery going on.
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| And Akbar assigned king ManSingh to stop the looting. To stop the looting, king Man Singh brought a fighting warrior community from UttarPradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar to Bengal. That community is the '''Chandravanshi Kshatriya''' '''Rajput''' or '''Chain''' or '''Chai''' community.
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| These '''Chandravanshi Kshatriya Rajputs''' started living on the banks of the Ganges in pieces like stone Chai, seeing that the people of Bengal started calling them '''Chain''' or '''Chai''', later these '''Chandravanshi Kshatriya Rajputs''' started identifying themselves as '''Chain''' or '''Chai''' community.
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| == Surnames ==
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| The people of this community mainly use the historical '''Kshatriya''' titles - Mandal, Sarkar, Chandravanshi, Chandravanshi Mandal, Arya, Kumar, Chowdhury, Raychowdhury, Brahmachari, Devsharma, Singh, Prasad, Kashyap, Das and many other historical '''Kshatriya''' titles.
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| == References == | | == References == |
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| {{Tribes of Uttar Pradesh}}
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| [[Category:Social groups of Uttar Pradesh]] | | [[Category:Social groups of Uttar Pradesh]] |
| [[Category:Fishing castes]] | | [[Category:Fishing castes]] |