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| {{Use Indian English|date=April 2019}} The '''Barai''' are a Brahmin Hindu caste found in Uttar Pradesh, India.<ref name="autogenerated12" /> <ref /> The people of this community mainly uses "Chaurasia" as surname (or 'Title').<ref />. This is to the effect that the first Barai was a BRAHMAN , whom God detected in a flagrant case of lying to his brother and underperforming ritual. His sacred thread (JANEU)was confiscated and, being planted in the ground, grew up into the first betel vine, which he was set to tend. " because the thread was congratulated barai stopped performing rituals and went of doing other activities like some of them became warriors and are called Kashyap Rajput, somvanshi Rajput. Various castes and gotta claim lineage from BARAI chaurishi, some of the surnames used are Modi, Jaiswal, Kashyap, Rishi, brahmachari , chaurishi, Tiwari, somvanshi, nag, naga etc. This can be said that people of this caste have successfully settled themselves now within vatiois varnas according to Indian caste system but they have their ancestral lineage from the first varna in varna system which brahmin. Anyhow this caste has a long brahminical lineage and there are several proven records to confirm it The book Brahman utpatti martand (<nowiki>http://shashwatshukladatiabrahman.blogspot.com/2014/03/blog-post.html?m=1</nowiki>) which explains the brahminical lineage and all of its castes gotras , Chaurasia Brahmins are mentioned with their BRAHMINICAL ancestral Lineage. . They have several Brahmin gotras like shandilya, atri, Bharadwaj, Kashyap, Gautam, Gaud etc. The term Chaurasia signifies 84 , which states this clan has 84 different gotras involved. Some castes of this claim Kshatriya varna as well. | |||
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| one of the historical story explains that first BARAI was a Brahmin and punished for not performing yaga properly and his holy thread( janeu) was confisticated yet people of this caste having a Brahmin legacy were forced to perform different rituals and roles as Kshatriya, cultivators and businessmen.<ins> </ins> | |||
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| The '''Barai''' are a ] ] found in ], ].<ref name="autogenerated1"> People of India Uttar Pradesh Volume XLII Part One edited by A Hasan & J C Das page 177 to 182 Manohar Publications</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Chaurasia|first=Radhey Shyam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cWmsQQ2smXIC|title=History of Ancient India: Earliest Times to 1000 A.D.|date=2002|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|isbn=978-81-269-0027-5|language=en}}</ref> The people of this community mainly uses "]" as surname (or 'Title').<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-01-09|title=chaurasia – People Groups of India|url=https://peoplegroupsindia.com/tag/chaurasia/|access-date=2020-11-17|website=People Groups of India|language=en-US}}</ref> | |||
| The BARAI( Chaurasia) are considered direct descendants of saint Chaurishi and were in general category till 2006 , currently some sub castes of this community are put under OBC category in several state also because the section of them is economically, or educationally backward, although they claim and enjoy good social status and standing | |||
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The Barai are a Hindu caste found in Uttar Pradesh, India. The people of this community mainly uses "Chaurasia" as surname (or 'Title').
References
- People of India Uttar Pradesh Volume XLII Part One edited by A Hasan & J C Das page 177 to 182 Manohar Publications
- Chaurasia, Radhey Shyam (2002). History of Ancient India: Earliest Times to 1000 A.D. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. ISBN 978-81-269-0027-5.
- "chaurasia – People Groups of India". People Groups of India. 9 January 2019. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
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