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[60] [61] Among the many Brahmins who nurtured the Bhakti movement were Ramanuja, Nimbarka, Vallabha and Madhvacharya of Vaishnavism, [61] Ramananda, another devotional poet sant. [62] [63] Born in a Brahmin family, [62] [64] Ramananda welcomed everyone to spiritual pursuits without discriminating anyone by gender, class, caste or religion ...
Bhawal Estate of Bengal - ruled by Choudhary lineage - (Shrotriya Brahmin) Bhor State, a 9 gun salute princely state ruled by Deshasthas Brahmins; 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.
Brahmin Sub-Cast In Office Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan [350] [351] 5 September 1888 17 April 1975 Niyogi Brahmin: Second President (13 May 1962 – 13 May 1967) V. V. Giri [352] 10 August 1894 24 June 1980 Niyogi Brahmin: fourth president. 24 August 1969 to 24 August 1974. Ramaswamy Venkataraman [353] 4 December 1910 27 January 2009 Iyer Brahmin ...
The earliest historical evidence of settlement of Brahmins in Assam comes from epigraphic sources of the Varman dynasty (350–650). [6] In the late medieval period beginning with the early 16th century, a number of Brahmins from Mithila, Benaras, Kanauj, Bengal and Puri (Srikshetra), were settled in western Assam by the Koch kings for performing Brahminical rites.
Additional insights into Narsinh Mehta's biography are found in works from other poets of subsequent eras, as their poems describe in detail the personality of Narsinh Mehta and certain key events from his life. [3] Though there is no consensus among scholars on exact dates, it is believed Narsinh was born in 1414 and lived until the age of 79. [4]
The Bhakti movement of Hinduism built its theosophy around two concepts of Brahman—Nirguna and Saguna. [118] Nirguna Brahman was the concept of the Ultimate Reality as formless, without attributes or quality. [119] Saguna Brahman, in contrast, was envisioned and developed as with form, attributes and quality. [119]
The Chitpavan Brahmin or the Kokanastha Brahmin is a Hindu Maharashtrian Brahmin community inhabiting Konkan, the coastal region of the state of Maharashtra. Initially working as messengers and spies in the late seventeenth century, the community came into prominence during the 18th century when the heirs of Peshwa from the Bhat family of ...
Such a situation led to resentment from the other castes in Tamil Nadu, the result of this atmosphere was a "non-Brahmin" movement and the formation of the Justice Party. [62] Periyar , who took over as Justice Party President in the 1940s, changed its name to Dravida Kazhagam , and formulated the view that Tamil Brahmins were Aryans as opposed ...