Regions with significant populations

Languages
Historical: Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Kannauji
Modern: Local languages, primarily: Standard Hindi,
Bengali, Oriya
Religion
Hinduism (100%)
Related ethnic groups
Sanadhya Brahmins, Saryupareen Brahmins,
Bhumihar Brahmins and different Bengali Brahmin
Communities.
Kanyakubja Brahmins
Kanyakubja Brahmins
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kanyakubja Brahmins are a Brahmin community found
in central India and certain parts of the east, mainly in the
states of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, West
Bengal, Bihar, Nepal and Orissa. The word Kanyakubja
means Brahmins of the Kannauj region. Kannauj region
was spread to border of Vidisha in ancient times. Most of
the Kanyakubjas were landlords during the colonial rule in
Awadh, Kannauj region and Bhojpuri region of Bihar,
Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh and Utkal
region of Orissa. Other sub-group of Kanyakubja are the
Saryupareen Brahmin, and Jujhautiya Brahmin.
[1]
In the 19th and 20th national conventions of Kanyakubja
Brahmins, organised by the Kanyakubja Mahati Sabha in
1926 and 1927 respectively, the Sabha appealed for unity
among the various constituent communities, which
include the Sanadhya, Pahadi,Jujhoutia, Saryupareen,
Bhumihar Brahmin, Chhattisgarhi and Bengali Brahmins.
Contents
1 Vanshavali
2 Notable personalities
2.1 Scholars and writers
2.2 Freedom Fighters and Nationalists
2.3 Politics and Social life
3 Notes
3.1 Bibliography
4 External links
Vanshavali
"Kanyakubj Vanshavali" mentions five branches of Kanyakubja Brahmins as Saryupareen, Sanadhya,
Bhumihar Brahmin, Jujhautiya, and Prakrit Kanaujia:
Saryupari Sanadhyashcha Bhumiharo Jijhoutayah
Prakritashcha Iti Panchabhedastasya Prakartitah
[2]
Notable personalities
Scholars and writers
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Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Ram Avatar Sharma
Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan
Nalin Vilochan Sharma
Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'
Rambriksh Benipuri
Vagish Shastri Sanskrit Grammarian
Ram Sharan Sharma Historian
Ram Karan Sharma Sanskrit poet and scholar
Kapil Muni Tiwary Linguist
Siyaram Tiwari Littrateur
Muchkund Dubey International Relations scholar
Acharya Kishore Kunal Hindu philosopher and Bihar Religious Trusts Board Chairman
Pandit Devendranath Sharma Hindi writer and scholar
Freedom Fighters and Nationalists
Yogendra Shukla
Shaheed Baikuntha Shukla
Pandit Raj Kumar Shukla
Pandit Ravishankar Shukla
Mangal Pandey
Pandit Sheel Bhadra Yajee
Politics and Social life
Kailashpati Mishra Bharatiya Janta Party stalwart and national leader popularly referred to as
Bhishmapitamah.
Notes
^ People of India Uttar Pradesh Volume XLII Part Two edited by A Hasan & J C Das pages 718 to 724
Manohar Publications
1.
^ Saraswati, Swami Sahajanand (2003). Swami Sahajanand Saraswati Rachnawali in Six volumes (in Volume 1
at p. 518, Parishist by Acharya Tarineesh Jha, 515-519). Prakashan Sansthan. ISBN 81-7714-097-3.
2.
Bibliography
Baldev Upadhyaya, Kashi Ki Panditya Parampara, Sharda Sansthan, Varanasi, 1985.
Translation by G. Bhler (1886). Sacred Books of the East: The Laws of Manus (Vol. XXV). Oxford.
Available online as The Laws of Manu (http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/manu.htm)
Pandurang Vaman Kane, History of Dharmasastra, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute.
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Christopher Alan Bayly, Rulers, Townsmen, and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British
Expansion, 17701870, Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Anand A. Yang, Bazaar India: Markets, Society, and the Colonial State in Bihar, University of
California Press, 1999.
Peter Robb, Peasants, Political Economy, and Law, Oxford University Press, 2007.
Seema Alavi, The Eighteenth Century in India, Oxford University Press, 2007
Acharya Hazari Prasad Dwivedi Rachnawali, Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi.
Bibha Jha's Ph.D thesis Bhumihar Brahmins: A Sociological Study submitted to the Patna University.
Arvind Narayan Das, Agrarian movements in India: studies on 20th century Bihar (Library of Peasant
Studies), Routledge, London, 1982.
M. N. Srinivas, Social Change in Modern India, Orient Longman, Delhi, 1995.
Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi essays.
External links
kanyakubj.org (http://kanyakubj.org/)
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