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Jaiswal Brahmin
Brahmin
Jaiswal
s belongs to Pancha-Gauda
division and are branch of Kanyakubja Brahmins
. Jaiswal Brahmins are mainly Chandravanshis or Gadhiwals, Some Jaiswals are also believed to be Nagar Brahmins
. Jaiswals have historical simily with Nagar Brahmins
and Sakaldwipiya
or Shakadvipi Brahmins. According to one school of thought it is also believed that Jaiswal Brahmins have roots in Middle East. Some Jaiswals are Chaurasi Brahmins from Nepal or North India, they are also termed as Shiv Brahmins. There is a strong link between Chaurasi Brahmins of north india and Nagar Brahmins. Nag vel or Nagar vel(beetle nut plant) is also an interesting connecting link.
Some Jaiswals are Brahmin Swarnkar
s. This is probably due to the profession they acquired.
Jaiswal Brahmins are also found amongst Utkal and Burmese Brahmins.
Some Jaiswal Brahmins also migrated from north to Gujarat for Historic Reasons several hundred years back and settled there and are found among Gujarati people
. Most of them are Brahmin
Thakur
s.
, Sahu, Malviya, Varma or Varman Or Barman, etc.
Common middle names in North/East Indian Brahmins are:
-Ranjan
-Chandra
-Ram
-Prasad
-Kumar
Name Prefix or Middle name -Gupta and -Varma or -Varman or -Barman were used by Brahmin Dynasty Kings in Eastern Parts of Indian Subcontinent and Far Eastern countries and after the fall of their empires to mongoloids or budhhist and islamic hardliners, their descendants eventually used them as Surnames e.g. King Sri Gupta ruled parts of North and North-East India, East Pakistan, parts of western India etc., King Rudravarma of Champa
(Vietnam
), King Jayavarma I
of Kambuja(Kampuchea or Cambodia
), Kings of other Far Eastern Ilands and regions.
Brahmin
Gupta
s are believed to be Vaidya Brahmins and are descendants of Dhanavantari, the god of medicine and father of Ayurveda
.
, Zoroastrianism
, Jainism
and Hinduism
. After invasions by Mughal or Arabic and Islamic hardliners in west and Mongol or Buddhist hardliners in east and far east they were compelled to fallback position in Indian subcontinent.
Name Prefix or Middle name -Gupta and -Varma or -Varman or -Barman were used by Brahmin Dynasty Kings in Eastern Parts of Indian Subcontinent and Far Eastern countries and after the fall of their empires to mongoloids or budhhist and islamic hardliners, their descendants eventually used them as Surnames e.g. King Sri Gupta ruled parts of North and North-East India, East Pakistan, parts of western India etc., King Rudravarma of Champa
(Vietnam
), King Jayavarma I
of Kambuja(Kampuchea or Cambodia
), Kings of other Far Eastern Ilands and regions.
s or Thakur
s performed (mehsuli)revenue operations. Thakur is an Indian feudal title in several Indian languages, literally meaning "lord". A Thikana is the state or (more often) estate of a Thakur. A Thakurani is the wife of a Thakur. The big Jamindars of old times used Thakur as their title or surname. Most of the Kanyakubjas were landlords during the colonial rule in Awadh, Kannauj region and Bhojpuri region of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Chattisgarh.
Some deshastha(maharashtra dravid) jaiswal brahmin surnames are also known viz Mahajan, Kale, Prasad, Chaudhari, Dahale, etc.
Jaiswals are believed to be good administrators historically and handled Beurocratic responsibilities for various states. Nizam of Hyderabad specially invited Jaiswals from North India to settle in his sate and take care of beurocratic as well as diplomatic tasks.
Brahmin
Brahmin
Brahmin Brahman, Brahma and Brahmin.Brahman, Brahmin and Brahma have different meanings. Brahman refers to the Supreme Self...
Jaiswal
Jaiswal
Jaiswal or Jayswal or Jayaswal is a geographical title referring to Jayasnagar or Jassowal or Jaisalmer or Jaswal,_Pakistan or Jaswal Pani or Jaswan or Jais Province, shared by several communities in India including"* Jaiswal Brahmins...
s belongs to Pancha-Gauda
Pancha-Gauda
Pancha-Gauda and Pancha-Dravida are two chief divisions of Brahmins, as per the śloka from Rājatarangini of / Kalhana:कर्णाटकाश्च तैलंगा द्राविडा महाराष्ट्रकाः ,गुर्जराश्चेति पञ्चैव द्राविडा विन्ध्यदक्षिणे ||सारस्वताः कान्यकुब्जा गौडा उत्कलमैथिलाः,...
division and are branch of Kanyakubja Brahmins
Kanyakubja Brahmins
Kanyakubj Brahmins are a Brahmin community found in central India, mainly in the states of Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh. The word Kanyakubja means Brahmins of the Kannauj region. Kannauj region was spread to border of Vidisha in ancient times...
. Jaiswal Brahmins are mainly Chandravanshis or Gadhiwals, Some Jaiswals are also believed to be Nagar Brahmins
Nagar Brahmins
Nagar Gujarati Brahmins are believed to be one of the oldest of the Brahmin groups.-Overview:Historians suggest that the origin of the Nagars to be Aryan, having immigrated to the Indian plains from Balkh in Central Asia...
. Jaiswals have historical simily with Nagar Brahmins
Nagar Brahmins
Nagar Gujarati Brahmins are believed to be one of the oldest of the Brahmin groups.-Overview:Historians suggest that the origin of the Nagars to be Aryan, having immigrated to the Indian plains from Balkh in Central Asia...
and Sakaldwipiya
Sakaldwipiya
Sakaldwipiya Brahmins or Bhojaka Brahmins, is a class of Hindu priests and Ayurveda teachers , with significant concentrations of their populations occurring in Western and Northern India....
or Shakadvipi Brahmins. According to one school of thought it is also believed that Jaiswal Brahmins have roots in Middle East. Some Jaiswals are Chaurasi Brahmins from Nepal or North India, they are also termed as Shiv Brahmins. There is a strong link between Chaurasi Brahmins of north india and Nagar Brahmins. Nag vel or Nagar vel(beetle nut plant) is also an interesting connecting link.
Some Jaiswals are Brahmin Swarnkar
Brahmin Swarnkar
The Brahmin Swarnkar are an Indian caste, which developed from Shrimal Nagar's Brahmins . They are called "Brahmin Swarnkars" because a group of Brahmins adopted a Swarnkar business for their enhancement of life style, and so these Brahmins are called as Brahmin Swarnkars.-Subdivisions:Being...
s. This is probably due to the profession they acquired.
Jaiswal Brahmins are also found amongst Utkal and Burmese Brahmins.
Some Jaiswal Brahmins also migrated from north to Gujarat for Historic Reasons several hundred years back and settled there and are found among Gujarati people
Gujarati people
Gujarati people , or Gujaratis are an ethnic group that is traditionally Gujarati-speaking and can trace their ancestry to the state of Gujarat in western India...
. Most of them are Brahmin
Brahmin
Brahmin Brahman, Brahma and Brahmin.Brahman, Brahmin and Brahma have different meanings. Brahman refers to the Supreme Self...
Thakur
Thakur
Thakur may refer to:*Thakur *Thakur *Thakar , an Adivasi people in Maharashtra, India*Thakar - a Rajput caste of India.*Thakor is also another name of Hindu deities.-See also:*List of Gurjar clans...
s.
Surnames & Middle Names
Few of the common Jaiswal Brahmin Surnames are Jaiswal, Jayaswal, Gaur, Garg, Gupta, Bhagat, Vaish(nav), Dubey, Prasad, Chowdhury, Rai or Ray or Roy, ThakurThakur
Thakur may refer to:*Thakur *Thakur *Thakar , an Adivasi people in Maharashtra, India*Thakar - a Rajput caste of India.*Thakor is also another name of Hindu deities.-See also:*List of Gurjar clans...
, Sahu, Malviya, Varma or Varman Or Barman, etc.
Common middle names in North/East Indian Brahmins are:
-Ranjan
-Chandra
-Ram
-Prasad
-Kumar
Name Prefix or Middle name -Gupta and -Varma or -Varman or -Barman were used by Brahmin Dynasty Kings in Eastern Parts of Indian Subcontinent and Far Eastern countries and after the fall of their empires to mongoloids or budhhist and islamic hardliners, their descendants eventually used them as Surnames e.g. King Sri Gupta ruled parts of North and North-East India, East Pakistan, parts of western India etc., King Rudravarma of Champa
Champa
The kingdom of Champa was an Indianized kingdom that controlled what is now southern and central Vietnam from approximately the 7th century through to 1832.The Cham people are remnants...
(Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
), King Jayavarma I
Jayavarman I
Jayavarman I is considered by some to be the first king of the Khmer empire, as it evolved out of the Kamboja kingdom . He ruled from approximately 657 to 681. Over the course of his reign, and that of his predecessor Bhavavarman II, the Khmer kings' power was consolidated in the areas previously...
of Kambuja(Kampuchea or Cambodia
Cambodia
Cambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...
), Kings of other Far Eastern Ilands and regions.
Brahmin
Brahmin
Brahmin Brahman, Brahma and Brahmin.Brahman, Brahmin and Brahma have different meanings. Brahman refers to the Supreme Self...
Gupta
Gupta
Gupta is a common surname of Indian origin.According to some academicians, the name Gupta is derived from Sanskrit goptri, meaning military governor. A more direct translation of the Sanskrit word gupta is 'secret' or 'hidden'. According to prominent historian R. C...
s are believed to be Vaidya Brahmins and are descendants of Dhanavantari, the god of medicine and father of Ayurveda
Ayurveda
Ayurveda or ayurvedic medicine is a system of traditional medicine native to India and a form of alternative medicine. In Sanskrit, words , meaning "longevity", and , meaning "knowledge" or "science". The earliest literature on Indian medical practice appeared during the Vedic period in India,...
.
Jaiswal Rajput
Though being Brahmins Chandravanshi Jaiswals were efficient rulers and gallant warriors. They ruled various geographical domains spaning from Iran to Far East at various historical time segments hence some clans were also classified as Jaiswal Rajputs in more recent history Warrior Brahmins like Bhumihars or mohyals of punjab. They were good rulers and gallant warriors. They believed in truly secular values and were great patrons of BuddhismBuddhism
Buddhism is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha . The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th...
, Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism is a religion and philosophy based on the teachings of prophet Zoroaster and was formerly among the world's largest religions. It was probably founded some time before the 6th century BCE in Greater Iran.In Zoroastrianism, the Creator Ahura Mazda is all good, and no evil...
, Jainism
Jainism
Jainism is an Indian religion that prescribes a path of non-violence towards all living beings. Its philosophy and practice emphasize the necessity of self-effort to move the soul towards divine consciousness and liberation. Any soul that has conquered its own inner enemies and achieved the state...
and Hinduism
Hinduism
Hinduism is the predominant and indigenous religious tradition of the Indian Subcontinent. Hinduism is known to its followers as , amongst many other expressions...
. After invasions by Mughal or Arabic and Islamic hardliners in west and Mongol or Buddhist hardliners in east and far east they were compelled to fallback position in Indian subcontinent.
Name Prefix or Middle name -Gupta and -Varma or -Varman or -Barman were used by Brahmin Dynasty Kings in Eastern Parts of Indian Subcontinent and Far Eastern countries and after the fall of their empires to mongoloids or budhhist and islamic hardliners, their descendants eventually used them as Surnames e.g. King Sri Gupta ruled parts of North and North-East India, East Pakistan, parts of western India etc., King Rudravarma of Champa
Champa
The kingdom of Champa was an Indianized kingdom that controlled what is now southern and central Vietnam from approximately the 7th century through to 1832.The Cham people are remnants...
(Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
), King Jayavarma I
Jayavarman I
Jayavarman I is considered by some to be the first king of the Khmer empire, as it evolved out of the Kamboja kingdom . He ruled from approximately 657 to 681. Over the course of his reign, and that of his predecessor Bhavavarman II, the Khmer kings' power was consolidated in the areas previously...
of Kambuja(Kampuchea or Cambodia
Cambodia
Cambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...
), Kings of other Far Eastern Ilands and regions.
Jamindars
Jaiswal ZamindarZamindar
A Zamindar or zemindar , was an aristocrat, typically hereditary, who held enormous tracts of land and ruled over and taxed the bhikaaris who lived on batavaslam. Over time, they took princely and royal titles such as Maharaja , Raja , Nawab , and Mirza , Chowdhury , among others...
s or Thakur
Thakur
Thakur may refer to:*Thakur *Thakur *Thakar , an Adivasi people in Maharashtra, India*Thakar - a Rajput caste of India.*Thakor is also another name of Hindu deities.-See also:*List of Gurjar clans...
s performed (mehsuli)revenue operations. Thakur is an Indian feudal title in several Indian languages, literally meaning "lord". A Thikana is the state or (more often) estate of a Thakur. A Thakurani is the wife of a Thakur. The big Jamindars of old times used Thakur as their title or surname. Most of the Kanyakubjas were landlords during the colonial rule in Awadh, Kannauj region and Bhojpuri region of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Chattisgarh.
Some deshastha(maharashtra dravid) jaiswal brahmin surnames are also known viz Mahajan, Kale, Prasad, Chaudhari, Dahale, etc.
Jaiswals are believed to be good administrators historically and handled Beurocratic responsibilities for various states. Nizam of Hyderabad specially invited Jaiswals from North India to settle in his sate and take care of beurocratic as well as diplomatic tasks.