Kanyakubja Brahmins
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Historical: Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Kannauji Modern: Local languages, primarily: Standard Hindi, Bengali, Oriya | |
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 Hinduism (100%) | |
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| Sanadhya Brahmins, Saryupareen Brahmins, Bhumihar Brahmins and different Bengali Brahmin Communities. |
Kanyakubj Brahmins are a Brahmin community found in central India and certain parts of the east, mainly in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar, Nepal and Orissa. The word Kanyakubja means Brahmins of the Kannauj region. Kannauj region was spread to border of Vidisha in ancient times. Most of the Kanyakubjas were landlords during the colonial rule in Awadh, Kannauj region and Bhojpuri region of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Chattisgarh and Utkal region of Orissa.Other sub-group of Kanyakubja are the Saryupareen Brahmin, Jujhautiya Brahmin .[1] In the 19th (held at Prayag) and 20th (held at Lucknow) national convention of Kanyakubja Brahmins by Kanyakubja Mahati Sabha, in 1926 and 1927 respectively, it appealed for unity among Kanyakubja Brahmins whose different branches included Sanadhya, Pahadi, Bhumihar Brahmin, Jujhoutia, Saryupareen, Chattisgarhi, Bengali Brahmins.[2]
Vanshavali
"Kanyakubj Vanshavali" mentions five branches of Kanyakubja Brahmins as Saryupareen, Sanadhya, Bhumihar, Jujhautiya and Prakrit Kanaujia.[3]
Notable personalities
Scholars and writers
- Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Ram Avatar Sharma
- Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan
- Nalin Vilochan Sharma
- Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
- Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'
- Rambriksh Benipuri
- Vagish Shastri Sanskrit Grammarian
- Ram Sharan Sharma Historian
- Ram Karan Sharma Sanskrit poet and scholar
- Kapil Muni Tiwary Linguist
- Siyaram Tiwari Littrateur
- Muchkund Dubey International Relations scholar
- Acharya Kishore Kunal Hindu philosopher and Bihar Religious Trusts Board Chairman
- Pandit Devendranath Sharma Hindi writer and scholar
Freedom Fighters and Nationalists
- Yogendra Shukla
- Shaheed Baikuntha Shukla
- Pandit Raj Kumar Shukla
- Pandit Ravishankar Shukla
- Chandra Shekhar Azad(Tiwari) Indian Freedom Fighter
- Ram Prasad Bismil Indian Freedom Fighter, Poet
- Sheel Bhadra Yajee
- Pandit Karyanand Sharma
- Pandit Yadunandan Sharma
- Pandit Yamuna Karjee
- Mangal Pandey
- Pandit Sheel Bhadra Yajee
Administrators
Holders of High Constitutional Office
Politics and Social life
- Kailashpati Mishra Bharatiya Janta Party stalwart and national leader popularly referred to as Bhishmapitamah.
- Dwarka Prasad Mishra former Chief Minister of India and Freedom Fighter
- Atal Bihari Vajpai,former Prime Minister of India
- Shyama Charan Shukla- former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, son of Pandit Ravishankar Shukla
- Vidya Charan Shukla-former Indian Cabinet Minister in various portfolios,Agriculturist, son of Pandit Ravishankar Shukla
- Dr. C.P.Thakur Parliamentarian, former Union Health Minister
- Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486–1534), ascetic, founder of Gaudiya Vaishnavism
- Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala(1914–1982), Prime Minister of Nepal
Notes
- ↑ People of India Uttar Pradesh Volume XLII Part Two edited by A Hasan & J C Das pages 718 to 724 Manohar Publications
- ↑ Saraswati, Swami Sahajanand (2003). Swami Sahajanand Saraswati Rachnawali in Six volumes 1. Delhi: Prakashan Sansthan. pp. 68–69. ISBN 81-7714-097-3.
- ↑ Saraswati, Swami Sahajanand (2003). Swami Sahajanand Saraswati Rachnawali in Six volumes (in Volume 1 at p. 518, Parishist by Acharya Tarineesh Jha, 515-519). Prakashan Sansthan. ISBN 81-7714-097-3.
Bibliography
- Swami Sahajanand Saraswati Rachnawali (Selected works of Swami Sahajanand Saraswati), Prakashan Sansthan, Delhi, 2003.
- Baldev Upadhyaya, Kashi Ki Panditya Parampara, Sharda Sansthan, Varanasi, 1985.
- Translation by G. Bühler (1886). Sacred Books of the East: The Laws of Manus (Vol. XXV). Oxford. Available online as The Laws of Manu
- Kautilya Arthashastra, R. P. Kangle, tr. 3 vols. Laurier Books, Motilal Banarsidass, New Delhi (1997) ISBN 81-208-0042-7.
- M.A. Sherring, Hindu Tribes and Castes as Reproduced in Benaras, Asian Educational Services, New Delhi, First edition 1872, new edition 2008.
- Jogendra Nath Bhattacharya, Hindu Castes and Sects, Munshiram Manoharlal, Delhi, first edition 1896, new edition 1995.
- E.A.H.Blunt, The Caste System of North India, first edition in 1931 by Oxford University Press, new edition by S. Chand Publishers, 1969.
- Pandurang Vaman Kane, History of Dharmasastra, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute.
- Christopher Alan Bayly, Rulers, Townsmen, and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion, 1770–1870, Cambridge University Press, 1983.
- Anand A. Yang, Bazaar India: Markets, Society, and the Colonial State in Bihar, University of California Press, 1999.
- Peter Robb, Peasants, Political Economy, and Law, Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Seema Alavi, The Eighteenth Century in India, Oxford University Press, 2007
- Acharya Hazari Prasad Dwivedi Rachnawali, Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi.
- Bibha Jha's Ph.D thesis Bhumihar Brahmins: A Sociological Study submitted to the Patna University.
- Arvind Narayan Das, Agrarian movements in India: studies on 20th century Bihar (Library of Peasant Studies), Routledge, London, 1982.
- M. N. Srinivas, Social Change in Modern India, Orient Longman, Delhi, 1995.
- Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi essays.
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