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In more recent times, the All-India Kashyap Rajput Mahasabha pressure group was established prior to the 1941 census of British India to lobby the census authorities to record the caste as Kashyap Rajput rather than by any other name. [3]
Bhim Chand was the Rajput King of Bilaspur state (reigned 1665 – 1692) [46] Rani Karnavati of Garhwal, the Parmar Rajput Queen of Garhwal, credited for defending the kingdom against the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. [47] Durgadas Rathore, was a minister of Marwar who was successful in preserving Marwar against Mughal rule [48]
Mehra surname are mainly Khatri in origin but many clans from other states also uses this surname as well. They are also known as Kashyap Rajputs. This surname derives from the word Mihir, meaning sun or master. [3] According to Aditya Malik, the Mehras of Uttarakhand are a community of Rajput landowners in the Kumaon Division of the Central ...
The Dhimar is a caste in India, sometimes referred to as a subcaste of boatmen. [1]Communities that are related to the Dhimar Kashyap Kashyap Rajput Mehra live in Uttar Pradesh, haryana, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh include the Dhinwar, Dhewar, Jhimar, Jhinwar, Jhiwar, Kanshilya , Koshyal.
Genealogies of the Rajput clans were fabricated by pastoral nomadic tribes when they became sedentary. In a process called Rajputization, after acquiring political power, they employed bards to fabricate these lineages which also disassociated them from their original ancestry of cattle-herding or cattle-rustling communities and acquired the name 'Rajput'.
According to William Rowe, the Kayasthas of Bengal, Bombay and the United Provinces repeatedly challenged this classification by producing a flood of books, pamphlets, family histories and journals to pressurise the government to recognise them as kshatriya and to reform the caste practices in the directions of sanskritisation and westernisation.
21 Only Muslim Mochis are in the OBC list, the Hindu section have Scheduled Caste status. 22 caste mahigeer faruki ob list Explanation: In the above list for Uttar Pradesh for all castes linked with traditional hereditary occupations, except those entered with specific mention of name of religion, are included, irrespective of whether their ...
A caste of shepherds who were formerly Shudras successfully changed their status to Rajput in the Raj era and started wearing the sacred thread. They are now known as Sagar Rajputs . [ 17 ] [ 18 ] (not to be confused with Sagar Rajputs of Bundelkhand which was a subclan of Bundela Rajputs and are considered to be the highest among all central ...