Kanyakubja Brahmins
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Languages | |
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Historical: Awadhi, Kannauji Modern: Local languages, primarily: Standard Hindi, Bengali, Oriya | |
| Religion | |
 Hinduism (100%) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Sanadhya Brahmins, Saryupareen Brahmins and different Bengali Brahmin Communities. |
Kanyakubja Brahmins are a Brahmin community found in Northern India, including the state of Uttar Pradesh. The word Kanyakubja means Brahmins of the Kannauj region. Kannauj region was spread to border of Vidisha in ancient times. Other sub-group of Kanyakubja are the Saryupareen Brahmin, and Jujhautiya Brahmin.[1]
In the 1926 and 1927 national conventions of Kanyakubja Brahmins, held respectively at Prayag and at Lucknow, the Kanyakubja Mahati Sabha, who organised the events, appealed for unity among Kanyakubja Brahmins whose subgroups included the Sanadhya, Pahadi, Jujhautiya, Saryupareen, and various Bengali Brahmins.[2]
References
- ↑ 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 (in Volume 1). Delhi: Prakashan Sansthan. pp. 519 (at p 68–69) (Volume 1). ISBN 81-7714-097-3.
Further reading
- Baldev Upadhyaya, Kashi Ki Panditya Parampara, Sharda Sansthan, Varanasi, 1985.
- 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.
- 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.