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Kanyakubja Brahmin
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh • Madhya Pradesh • West Bengal • Chhattisgarh • Jharkhand • Bihar • Assam • Tripura | |
| Languages | |
| Hindi • Kannauji • Awadhi • Bhojpuri • Bengali[1] • other Indo-Aryan languages | |
| Religion | |
| Hinduism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Saraswat Brahmins • Gauda Brahmins • Maithil Brahmins • Bengali Brahmins • Utkala Brahmins |
Kanyakubja Brahmins are an endogamous[2] 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.[3][need quotation to verify]
- ^ Sengupta, Nitish K. (2001). History of the Bengali-Speaking People. UBS Publishers' Distributors. p. 25. ISBN 81-7476-355-4.
- ^ Suhasini Bhatnagar and Suraksha Agrawal (2016). "Surname Endogamy among the Brahmin of India". Current Sociology. 50 (6): 853–861. doi:10.1177/0011392102050006005. S2CID 145181320.
- ^ Upinder Singh (2008). A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India. Pearson Education India. p. 575. ISBN 9788131711200.
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