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The Pradhan Bhumihar Brahman Sabha ("Chief Assembly of Bhumihar Brahmins") was established in Patna in 1889. Its objective was "to improve moral, social and educational reforms of the community and to represent the wants of the community to the government". [26] The Bhumihar Brahmin Mahasabha ("great assembly") was established in 1896. [27]
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.
Banaili Estate of Bihar - ruled by Chaudhary Bahadhur lineage - (Maithil Brahmins) Baudh State was a princely state ruled by a Brahmin family who adopted a nephew of the Raja of Keonjhar as successor; Benares State, a 13 gun salute (15 gun salute local) state ruled by Bhumihar Brahmins; Bettiah Raj ruled by Bhumihar Brahmins
Brahmin (/ ˈ b r ɑː m ɪ n /; Sanskrit: ब्राह्मण, romanized: brāhmaṇa) is a varna within Hindu society. The other three varnas are the Kshatriya , Vaishya and Shudra .
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 ...
Rakesh Shukla (animal welfare activist), is a Bangalore-based entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and animal welfare activist who runs a home for over 700 rescued dogs. [ 34 ] S. S. Vasan , founder of the Tamil-language magazine Ananda Vikatan and the film production company Gemini Studios [ 35 ]
Rajpurohit is a Brahmin community, who as a rule, did not provide Brahminical services as expected with the caste duties of Brahmins. Their ancestors are Brahmins, mostly notable Rishis of different sub castes such as Gaur, Paliwal Gaur, Khandelwal, Pushkarna, Nagar, Pareek, Dadheech and Bias but majority of them has Gaur lineage.
The state was founded by the Gautam Bhumihar Brahmin zamindar, Balwant Singh, who assumed the title of "Raja of Benares" in mid 18th century, taking advantage of the Mughal Empire's disintegration. [3] [4] His descendants ruled the area around Benares after liberation from Awadh and later as feudatories of East India Company.