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{{short description|Brahmin community}}
{{Infobox ethnic group
| group = Kanyakubja Brahmin
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| popplace = [[Uttar Pradesh]] • [[Madhya Pradesh]] • [[West Bengal]]<ref name="Bengali Brahmins">[[Bengali Brahmins]]</ref><ref name="Kulin Brahmin">[[Kulin Brahmin]]</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Krishna consciousness in the West |editor1-first=David G. |editor1-last=Bromley |editor2-first=Larry D. |editor2-last=Shinn |first=Thomas J. |last=Hopkins |chapter=The Social and Religious Background for Transmission of Gaudiya Vaisnavism to the West |publisher=Bucknell University Press |year=1989 |isbn=978-0-8387-5144-2 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F-EuD3M2QYoC&pg=PA35 |pages=35–36 |accessdate=31 October 2011}}</ref> • [[Chhattisgarh]] • [[Jharkhand]] • [[Bihar]] • [[Assam]]<ref name="Bengali Brahmins"></ref> • [[Tripura]]
| langs = [[Hindi language|Hindi]] • [[Bhojpuri language|Bhojpuri]] • [[Bengali language|Bengali]]<ref name="Kulin Brahmin"></ref><ref name=NKSenguptap25>{{cite book |last=Sengupta|first=Nitish K. |title=History of the Bengali-Speaking People |publisher=UBS Publishers' Distributors |year=2001 |isbn=81-7476-355-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6eYsAAAAMAAJ |page=25}}</ref> • [[Indo-Aryan languages|other Indo-Aryan languages]]
| rels = [[Hinduism]]
| related = [[Saraswat Brahmins]] • [[Gauda Brahmins]] • [[Maithil Brahmins]] • [[Bengali Brahmins]] • [[Utkala Brahmins]]
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'''Kanyakubja Brahmins''' are an [[endogamy|endogamous]]<ref>{{cite journal |author=Suhasini Bhatnagar and Suraksha Agrawal |title=Surname Endogamy among the Brahmin of India |journal=Current Sociology |year=2016 |volume=50|issue=6 |pages=853–861 |doi=10.1177/0011392102050006005 |s2cid=145181320 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0011392102050006005#:~:text=The%20groups%20are%20all%20subdivisions,groups%20practise%20patrilineal%20surname%20endogamy}}</ref> [[Brahmin]] community mainly found in northern [[India]]. They are classified as one of the [[Pancha Gauda]] Brahmin communities native to the north of the [[Vindhyas]].<ref name="US_2008">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H3lUIIYxWkEC&pg=PA575 |title=A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India |author=Upinder Singh |publisher=Pearson Education India |year=2008 |isbn=9788131711200|page=575 }}</ref>

==Social status==
In states like [[Uttar Pradesh]] and [[Bihar]], they are considered the highest class of Brahmins. Except the areas where [[Gaur Brahmins|Gaurs Brahmins]] reside like Western Uttar Pradesh<ref>{{cite book|title=Uttar Pradesh : General Background Opposition in a Dominant Party System A Study of the Jan Sangh, the Praja Socialist Party, and the Socialist Party in Uttar Pradesh, India|page=27|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v3d2EAAAQBAJ&dq=kanyakubja+brahmins+social+status&pg=PA27|author=Angela S. Burger|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520365568|year=2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dw8wAQAAIAAJ&q=Kanyakubja+highest+class+bihar|title=People of India: Bihar (2 pts.)|page=447|author=Kumar Suresh Singh|year=2008|publisher=Anthropological Survey of India|isbn=9788170463023 }}</ref><ref>https://books.google.co.in/books?id=XyCBDwAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PT80&dq=anomalies+have+always+have+been+there+regarding+rank&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=anomalies%20have%20always%20have%20been%20there%20regarding%20rank&f=false</ref><ref>https://books.google.co.in/books?id=gf1m6isJ8JgC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&dq=Dichhat+are+known+as+Gaur+Brahmins++Chhajwan+,+Ror+and+Sitya+have+a+lower+social+status&q=Dichhat+are+known+as+Gaur+Brahmins++Chhajwan+,+Ror+and+Sitya+have+a+lower+social+status&hl=en&redir_esc=y</ref>

==Notable people==
* [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]], former [[Prime Minister]] of India<ref>{{cite news|agency=[[India Today]]|date=31 May 1996|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/19960531-atal-bihari-vajpayee-a-private-person-with-strong-dislikes-and-few-close-friends-832968-1996-05-30|title=Atal Bihari Vajpayee: A private person with strong dislikes and few close friends|author=N.K Singh}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Brahmin communities of Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Brahmin communities of Bihar]]
[[Category:Brahmin communities of Madhya Pradesh]]
[[Category:Brahmin communities of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Brahmin communities of Assam]]
[[Category:Indian castes]]

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Kanyakubja Brahmin - Revision history

Lildon at 13:51, 8 October 2023