For people belonging to Maharashtra, see Marathi people and Konkani people.
Marathi Brahmins (also known as Maharashtrian Brahmins) are communities native to the Indian state of Maharashtra. They are classified into mainly three sub-divisions based on their places of origin, "Desh", "Karad" and "Konkan". The Brahmin subcastes that come under Maharashtra Brahmins include Deshastha, Chitpavan (Konkanastha), Saraswat, Karhade, and Devrukhe.[1]
^Maharashtra, Land and Its People. Gazetteers Department, Government of Maharashtra. 2009. p. 230. In Maharashtra Brahmin caste has Karhade, Deshastha, Kokanastha, Devrukhas, Sarasvats, etc. as sub- castes . Further Deshastha Brahmin sub - caste has sub - sub - castes like Rigvedi and Yajurvedi which are also endogamous groups.
MarathiBrahmins (also known as Maharashtrian Brahmins) are communities native to the Indian state of Maharashtra. They are classified into mainly three...
Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh were Deshastha Brahmins". The mother tongue of Deshastha Brahmins is either Marathi, Kannada or Telugu. Over the millennia, the...
The Marathi people (Marathi: मराठी लोक, romanized: Marāṭhī lōk) or Marathis (Marathi: मराठी, romanized: Marāṭhī) are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group...
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Kerala Brahmins and the Brahmins of South Karnataka. Marathi is the mother tongue of most of the Karhade Brahmins in Maharashtra. Karhade Brahmins generally...
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vernacular Marathi language, promoting local devotional religious practice, and opposing the suppressive caste-system propagated by the elite Brahmins. Eknath's...
Shivaji's time, the so-called higher classes i.e. the MarathiBrahmins, CKPs and Saraswat Brahmins, due to social and religious restrictions were the only...
Marathi (मराठी, pronounced [məˈɾaːʈʰiː] ) is an Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the...
Aadya Gaud Brahmin, Kudaldeshkar and sometimes Kudalkar Brahmins. They speak Marathi, Malwani dialect of Konkani. The Aadya Gaud Brahmins (आद्य गौड ब्रह्मण)...
Dakshinatraya Saraswat Brahmin are now found along the western coast of India. Saraswats have contributed to the fields of Sanskrit, Konkani, Marathi and Kannada...
speak the native language of that state. The Marathi, Kannada, Telugu and Tamil speaking Madhva Brahmins are all followers of Deshastha Mathas, which...
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Telugu, Bengali and Malayalam. Kulkarni belonged to a middle class MarathiBrahmin family and claims that she was not married to Vicky Goswami. However...
community is composed of Saraswat Brahmins, Chitpavan Brahmins, Karhade Brahmin and rest of the Daivadnyas and MarathiBrahmin along with the Konkan Kshatriya...
that brought her in touch with dynamic leaders like Keshav Gore, a MarathiBrahmin, who mentored the young recruits during the days prior to Independence...
Radhika Apte born on 7 September 1985 in Vellore, Tamil Nadu into a MarathiBrahmin family. Her parents were studying and working as doctors at the Christian...
subsequently the Peshwas. As early as 1680s, many Marathi communities including Marathas and MarathiBrahmin started settling in the region. Most of these...
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