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Khanna is a Punjabi Hindu and Sikh surname and a Khatri clan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Khannas belong to the Khatri caste and are part of the Dhai Ghar sub-group of Khatri Hindus . [ 3 ] According to tradition, Khannas are descendants of a common ancestor named Khan Chand.
Pages in category "Books about the caste system in India" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Compound verbs, a highly visible feature of Hindi–Urdu grammar, consist of a verbal stem plus a light verb. The light verb (also called "subsidiary", "explicator verb", and "vector" [ 55 ] ) loses its own independent meaning and instead "lends a certain shade of meaning" [ 56 ] to the main or stem verb, which "comprises the lexical core of ...
By 1900, the Kayasthas became so dominant as a 'service caste' that "their ability to mould north India's governance led to numerous calls from British officialdom to cut their numbers down". [75] The late-nineteenth-century ethnographers and observers unanimously agreed on the Kayastha's high social status in the Hindu society.
Hindi-Urdu, also known as Hindustani, has three noun cases (nominative, oblique, and vocative) [1] [2] and five pronoun cases (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, and oblique). The oblique case in pronouns has three subdivisions: Regular, Ergative , and Genitive .
Sikh names often have the following format: First name – Religious name – Family name. [1] [2] Sikh first names serve as personal names and are selected through the Naam Karan ceremony, where a random page of the Guru Granth Sahib is opened by a granthi (Sikh preist) and the first letter of the first prayer on the opened page is used as the basis for the first name as an initial.
The Khatik (Hindi: खटीक, Urdu: کھٹیک) is a caste found in the Indian subcontinent, mainly modern-day India, Pakistan and Nepal.Khatik are located mainly in New Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh.
The Jat people, also spelt Jaat and Jatt, [1] are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. [2] [3] [a] [b] [c] Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, many Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and subsequently into the Delhi Territory, northeastern Rajputana, and the western Gangetic Plain in the 17th and ...