Pant (surname)

Pant is part of a compound of North Indian surnames of people with a Hindu Brahmin background. The Pant surname is derived from the title pandit, symbolizing the community's traditional association with scholarship.

People with Pant in their surname belong mainly to KumauniBrahmin community, originally centered in Uttarakhand and to a lesser extent, Nepal but a minority of Pants belong to the Upadhaya sect of Brahmins. The ancestors of these families migrated from the western India, particularly from the Konkan area of Karnataka/Maharashtra to their current Himalayan home.Migration was done during mughal period . Brahmins in Maharashtra still retain "Pant" title in the middle names to indicate ancestral claims to ministership or high scholarship.

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