Kanyakubja Brahmin

Kanyakubja Brahmin
Regions with significant populations
	Uttar Pradesh • Madhya Pradesh • West Bengal • Chhattisgarh • Jharkhand • Bihar • Assam • Tripura
Languages
	Hindi • Kannauji • Awadhi • Bhojpuri • Bengali • 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.^[3]

Kanyakubja Brahmins emerged as the highest ranking subcaste of Brahmins and are known to have migrated to and colonized many areas outside their northern homeland. In the process, they created a hierarchy of subdivisions and exceedingly complex rank differentiations that correlated their ritual purity and standing with their position within the emerging sacred landscape of early medieval India inversely to the distance separating them from their homeland ~ André Wink.^[4]

It seems likely that region around Kannauj, was the place of origin of the majority of migrating Brahmans throughout the medieval centuries.^[5]

^ 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.
^ Wink, André (2020). The Making of the Indo-Islamic World C.700–1800 CE. E.J. Brill. p. 42. ISBN 978-1-108-41774-7.
^ Wink, André (2020). The Making of the Indo-Islamic World C.700–1800 CE. E.J. Brill. p. 42. ISBN 978-1-108-41774-7.

[NKSenguptap25-1] Sengupta, Nitish K. (2001). History of the Bengali-Speaking People. UBS Publishers' Distributors. p. 25. ISBN 81-7476-355-4.

[2] 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.

[US_2008-3] Upinder Singh (2008). A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India. Pearson Education India. p. 575. ISBN 9788131711200.

[4] Wink, André (2020). The Making of the Indo-Islamic World C.700–1800 CE. E.J. Brill. p. 42. ISBN 978-1-108-41774-7.

[5] Wink, André (2020). The Making of the Indo-Islamic World C.700–1800 CE. E.J. Brill. p. 42. ISBN 978-1-108-41774-7.

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