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  2. List of Brahmins - Wikipedia

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    Banabhatta wrote India's first novel and was a poet in King Harsha's court [241] Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian Poet who wrote India's national song Vande Matram [242] [243] D. R. Bendre [244] Garimella Satyanarayana, Telugu poet and freedom fighter [245] Gopalakrishna Adiga, Kannada poet who is known as "Pioneer of New style" poetry [246]

  3. Vishwakarma community - Wikipedia

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    The community claims to be descended from the god Vishvakarma, who is considered by Hindus to be the divine architect or engineer of the universe.He had five children — Manu, Maya, Tvastar, Shilpi and Visvajna — and these are believed by the Vishwakarma community to have been the forebears of their five subgroups, being respectively the gotras (clans) of blacksmiths, carpenters, bell ...

  4. List of Brahmin dynasties and states - Wikipedia

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    Chaube Jagirs were a group of five feudatory princely states of central India during the period of the British Raj, which were ruled by different branches of Brahmin families. Darbhanga Raj of Mithila, Bihar - ruled by Maithil Brahmins; Dighapatia Raj of Bengal - ruled by Roy lineage - (Varendra Brahmins)

  5. Bairagi Brahmin (caste) - Wikipedia

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    Bairagi Brahmin or Vaishnav Bairagi or Vaishnav Brahmin is a Hindu caste. They are Hindu priests . They are sedentary rasik (temple dwelling or temple priest) Brahmin members of the Vaishnava sampradayas , especially the Ramanandi Sampradaya . [ 2 ]

  6. India Today (TV channel) - Wikipedia

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    The channel was launched in 2003 as a sister channel of the Hindi Aaj Tak news channel. It is one of the four news channels from the TV Today Network stable, the others being Aaj Tak, Tez and Delhi Aaj Tak. [3] Alok Verma was brought in as the Executive Producer to successfully launch TV Today group's foray into the English news channel category.

  7. Telugu Brahmin - Wikipedia

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    Telugu Brahmins [a] are Telugu-speaking Brahmin communities native to the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. [1] [2] They fall under the Pancha Dravida Brahmin classification of the Brahmin community in India. Telugu Brahmins are further divided into sections like Vaidiki, Niyogi, Deshastha, Dravida, Golkonda Vyapari among others ...

  8. Brahmin - Wikipedia

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    Historical records from mid 1st millennium CE and later, suggest Brahmins were agriculturalists and warriors in medieval India, quite often instead of as exception. [ 7 ] [ 9 ] Donkin and other scholars state that Hoysala Empire records frequently mention Brahmin merchants who "carried on trade in horses, elephants and pearls" and transported ...

  9. Caste system in Kerala - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] [6] Over time, the dominance of the "upper caste" Brahmin and Nair nobles gradually declined due to social and political changes. [7] [8] [9] Like the rest of India, the lower castes touching the upper castes was termed as "pollution," but only in Kerala did the lower castes pollute not just by touch but also by merely approaching an ...