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Bengali Kayastha is a Bengali Hindu caste that originated from the Bengal region of Indian subcontinent, and is one of the main subgroups of the Kayastha community. The historical caste occupation of Kayasthas throughout India has been that of scribes, administrators, ministers and record-keepers; [1] the Kayasthas in Bengal, along with Brahmins and Baidyas, are regarded among the three ...
Mandal Commission included both Chasi-Kaibarta and Mahishya in the list of 177 "backward classes" for the state of West Bengal. Since 1989, after the commission's proposals coming into force, a section among the lower middle and lower class Mahisyas mounted a low intensity campaign for OBC status.
In the process, they became evidence of sociocultural negotiations that transpired in late-medieval Bengal. [c] Brihaddharma Purana (Brh. P.; c. 13th century [d]) was the earliest document to chronicle a hierarchy of castes in Bengal [7] [11] [e] and it became the standard text for popular negotiations of caste status. [14]
No mention of the Pods is found in the Bṛhaddharma Upapuraṇa (c. 13th century [a]), which is the earliest known document to chronicle a hierarchy of castes in Bengal. [4] [b] The Brahma Vaivarta Purana, notable for a very late Bengali recension c. 14/15th century, records "Paundrakas" to be the son of a Vaisya father and Sundini mother but it is unknown if the groups are connected. [5]
Sadgop (Bengali: সদগোপ), also spelled as Sadgope, is a Bengali Hindu Yadav (Gopa) caste. [1] [2] Traditionally they are engaged in cultivation.[3] [4] Since late mediaeval period Sadgops had established themselves as dominant political power in peripheral lateritic forest areas of Rarh region, now included in Birbhum, Burdwan and Midnapore districts.
[63] [64] West Bengal was created in 1947 as an act of Bengali Hindu Homeland Movement to save guard the political, economical, cultural, religious, demographic and land owning rights of Bengali Hindus of undivided Bengal region and as a result predominantly Hindu majority West Bengal became a part of Indian union.
Traditionally the Bengal society is divided into two varnas, Brahmin and Shudra. [12] The Sahas belong to the Jal-achal Shudra category, whose water was not accepted by the upper castes. [13] Sahas started to claim Vaishya status in the 1931 censuses report, but the evidence of history, literature, and scriptures suggest nothing in favour of ...