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[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 ...
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]
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 ...
Statues of the founders of Naxalism in Bihar, from left to right, Jagdish Mahto, Rameswar Ahir, Ramnaresh Dusadh, Subrato Datta and others.. Ekwari is one of the large village near Sahar in Bhojpur district, and majority of landowners here belonged to Bhumihar caste; there were 250 houses in all, belonging to this particular caste, who were the prominent landholders of the region.
In Hindu castes and sects Jogendra Nath Bhattacharya clearly mentioned on page 109 that Bhumihars are descended from Brahmins and Kshatriya(Rajput) women. This source is not unreliable as per WP:RAJ as it's written by local Indian historian and not some british civil servant. This article clearly mentions Bhumihar term was first used in 1865.
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 .
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.