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Vimla Verma, Indian politician and social worker and member of the Parliament of India; Vineet Verma, Indian film director and animator; Virendra Verma, Indian politician and member of Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha; Vrindavan Lal Verma, 20th-century Indian Hindi novelist and playwright; Chhaya Verma - leader is a chhatisgarh
Barman or its variants Burman (Bengali: বর্মন, Hindi: बर्मन, ... Varma (Sanskrit: वर्मा) is the masculine form of the word for "Armour".
Bhagya Reddy Varma (22 May 1888 – 18 February 1939), born as Madari Bagaiah [1] [2] was an Indian political leader, social reformer and activist known for fighting against untouchability in Hyderabad State [3] and for the abolition of the Jogini and Devdasi systems.
Arulmozhi Varman, Chola Emperor also known as Raja Raja Chola I who ruled over medieval Tamil Nadu; Pallava dynasty kings of southern India: Simhavarman II; Simhavarman III ...
The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes. It has its origins in ancient India, and was transformed by various ruling elites in medieval, early-modern, and modern India, especially in the aftermath of the collapse of the Mughal Empire and the establishment of the British Raj.
Varma curtailed the power of the Nair chiefs and introduced Tamil Brahmins to form a core component of his administration. [21] Under Marthanda Varma's reign, the Travancore Nair Infantry (also known as the Nair Pattalam) distinguished themselves in battle against the Dutch at the Battle of Colachel (1741). [22]
The Sunar (alternately, Swarnkar ,Soni, Sonar, Singh, Shah, Sonkar) is a caste in India and Nepal.The Sunar community work as traders of gold or as goldsmiths. [2] The community is primarily Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Muslim and found all over India and Nepal.
Their resistance, however, did not take the form of denial of caste or of caste-based imposition, but rather of disagreement about where they stood in the caste ranking. [4] A noteworthy attribute of the resulting Kurmi-kshatriya movement was the leadership provided by educated Kurmis who were now filling the lower and middle levels of ...