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Kanyakubja Brahmins are a Brahmin community found in central India and certain parts of the east, mainly in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, 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 Chhattisgarh and Utkal region of Orissa. Other sub-group of Kanyakubja are the Saryupareen Brahmin, Bhumihar Brahmin and Jujhautiya Brahmin.[1]
In the 19th and 20th national conventions of Kanyakubja Brahmins, organised by the Kanyakubja Mahati Sabha in 1926 and 1927 respectively, the Sabha appealed for unity among the various constituent communities, which include the Sanadhya, Pahadi,Jujhoutia, Saryupareen, Chhattisgarhi and Bengali Brahmins.
Vanshavali
"Kanyakubj Vanshavali" mentions five branches of Kanyakubja Brahmins as Saryupareen, Sanadhya, Bhumihar Brahmin, Jujhautiya and Prakrit Kanaujia:
Saryupari Sanadhyashcha Bhumiharo Jijhoutayah
Prakritashcha Iti Panchabhedastasya Prakartitah[2]
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
- Mangal Pandey
- Pandit Sheel Bhadra Yajee
Politics and Social life
- Kailashpati Mishra Bharatiya Janta Party stalwart and national leader popularly referred to as Bhishmapitamah.
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 (in Volume 1 at p. 518, Parishist by Acharya Tarineesh Jha, 515-519). Prakashan Sansthan. ISBN 81-7714-097-3.
Bibliography
- 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
- 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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