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The Bhumihar Brahmin Mahasabha ("great assembly") was established in 1896. [27] The local Bhumihar Brahmin Sabhas included the ones at Muzaffarpur (1899), Patna (1899), Gaya (1900) and Saran (1908). [28] These associations made numerous petitions to be classified as Brahmins in the 1901 census report. [29]
Ashwani Kumar notes that the upper backward classes like bhumihar Brahmins Koeri, and Kurmi have become the new class of capitalist landlords or kulaks who are equally ruthless than the feudal, who were dominantly Kshatriya, landlords if not more. Many Upper OBC commit atrocities and prey exclusively upon Dalit women who work on their fields. [22]
Subordination and discrimination comprised the characteristics which defined agrarian relations in Bihar during the Mughal and East India Company period. Land holding defined the hierarchy of castes in agrarian society where the upper-castes which included Brahmin, Bhumihar and Rajputs worked for the Mughal central authority and were involved in the collection of land revenue and quelling any ...
Districts affected by the Ranvir Sena. The Ranvir Sena is a militia functioning as a landlord group, [2] mainly based in the state of Bihar, India. [3] The group was formed by Bhumihar Brahmin landlords under the leadership of Brahmeshwar Mukhiya [4] in 1994, with the aim to counter the influence of various left-wing militants, Naxalite groups and the Communist Party of India (Marxist ...
[15]: 75 Rape of women from lower caste by Rajput and Bhumihar landowners was common in the Shahabad district, [15] particularly in couple of villages of Bhojpur (modern name for Shahabad district), where sexual desire of the upper-castes was satisfied through arrogant and unrestricted access to the modesty of women belonging to Chamar and ...
Bhumihar brahmin/babhan are totally distinct community from Rajputs and have ancient brahmnic origin from magadh. Babhan/bhumihar shared only one trait with rajput i.e both were royal and aristocratic class of hindu society. Bhumihar brahmin is a modern name to old babhans which was popularized by many wealthy landlords or kings like kashi naresh.
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This widened the gap between Brahmins and non-Brahmins, but opposition quickly mounted. [5] Anti-Brahminism became organized with the formation of the Justice Party in late 1916 in Tamil Nadu. This party was composed of non-Brahmins (who were typically part of either the feudal castes, land-owning agricultural castes, or merchant castes) and ...