Sub-caste of the Kayastha caste in West Bengal, India
This article is about the sub-caste in Bengal. For other uses, see Kulin (disambiguation).
Ethnic group
Kulin Kayastha
A Kayastha of Calcutta, from a 19th century book
Languages
Bengali
Kulin Kayastha (Bengali: কুলীন কায়স্থ) is a sub-caste of the Bengali Kayastha caste in Bengal region of Indian subcontinent. They are also known as the Kulina Kayasthas.
The Kayasthas are regarded in Bengal, along with the Brahmins and Baidyas, as being the "highest Hindu castes". The Bengali Kayasthas are subdivided into numerous clans in that region, of which the Kulin is a high-ranking example.[1]
^Inden, Ronald B. (1976). Marriage and Rank in Bengali Culture: A History of Caste and Clan in Middle Period Bengal. University of California Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-520-02569-1. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
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putative Kshatriyas and mostly Brahmins. Ghoshes are considered as KulinKayasthas of Soukalin gotra, along with Boses, Guhas and Mitras. Ghosh is also...
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obtaining the jagir of Naldi, Sitaram married Kamala, the daughter of a KulinKayastha, Saral Khan Ghosh, a resident of Das Palsha village in the district...
siblings were young children). Kanaklata Devi was from a wealthy Hindu KulinKayastha family, originally hailing from Dhaka Nayabari and later settled at...
Konnagar in the district of Hooghly of present-day West Bengal into a KulinKayastha family. This wealthy and respectable family of Konnagar was locally...
was a small village of farmers, fishermen and honey-gathers when a KulinKayastha named Dhananjay Mitra settled here. During the reign of Akbar Barisha...
(now Bangladesh). Her father was a zamindar, a wealthy member of the KulinKayastha caste. As a very young widow, she trained as a teacher in Benares. After...
dynasties. The adipurush of the lineage Devaditya Dutt was Uttararhi KulinKayastha welcomed in Bengal during King Adisura's reign, 10th Century ad, later...
the sage Vishvamitra of Adisura myth. The family were members of the KulinKayastha caste and were devout Vaishnavs. Rajendralal's 4th great-grandfather...
great grandfather Krishnakanta Bandyopadhyay was a Rarhi Kulin (noble) Brahmin. Among Kulin Brahmins – descendants of the six families of Brahmins imported...
Baidyas have long had pre-eminence in society alongside Brahmins and Kayasthas. In the colonial era, the Bhadraloks were drawn primarily, but not exclusively...
grandfather of Ballal Sen who started the Kulin system in Bengal (the Basu Roy Chowdhurys are one of these Kulins). This system of dual titles was common...
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