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| Early history shows the Bengali Kayasthas as a functional group of officials and scribes, comprising mostly Brahmins and some ]s, which formed the office of the Kayastha during the ] in Bengal, and gradually evolved into a caste between the 5th/6th and the 11th/12th centuries AD.<ref name="AlHind">{{cite book|author=Andre Wink|title=Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Volume 1|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=bCVyhH5VDjAC|accessdate=3 September 2011|year=1991|publisher=Brill Academic Publishers|isbn=978-90-04-09509-0|page=269}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Sharma|first=Tej Ram|title=Personal and Geographical Names in the Gupta Empire|year=1978|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|location=New Delhi |page=115 |url=http://books.google.co.in/books?id=WcnnB-Lx2MAC}}</ref> | |||
| ]s have an associated myth of origin stating that five Kayasthas accompanied the Brahmins from ] who had been invited to Bengal by the mythological king Adisur. Swarupa Gupta says this legend was "fitted into a quasi-historical, sociological narrative of Bengal and deployed to explain the realities of caste and sub-caste origins and connections during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century."<ref>{{cite book |last=Gupta|first=Swarupa |title=Notions of Nationhood in Bengal: Perspectives on Samaj, C. 1867-1905 |publisher=Brill |year=2009 |isbn=978-90-04-17614-0 |url=http://books.google.co.in/books?id=AGSuVgPH9T4C&pg=PA103 |pages=103-104}}</ref> According to this legend, the three clans to become the main Kulin Kayastha communities are Bose/Basu, Ghosh and Mitra.<ref name=Hopkins1989pp35-36>{{cite book |title=Krishna consciousness in the West |editor1-first=David G. |editor1-last=Bromley |editor2-first=Larry D. |editor2-last=Shinn |first=Thomas J. |last=Hopkins |chapter=The Social and Religious Background for Transmission of Gaudiya Vaisnavism to the West |publisher=Bucknell University Press |year=1989 |isbn=978-0-8387-5144-2 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=F-EuD3M2QYoC |pages=35–36 |accessdate=2011-10-31}}</ref> Multiple versions of this legend exist, and while some historians consider this legendary story to be baseless,<ref name=IndianStudiesp220>{{cite book |title=Indian Studies: Past & Present, Volume 10 |publisher=University of California |year=1969 |url=http://books.google.co.in/books?id=5wm2AAAAIAAJ |page=220}}</ref> others consider this to be nothing more than myth or folklore which lacks historical authenticity.<ref name=NKSenguptap25>{{cite book |last=Sengupta|first=Nitish K. |title=History of the Bengali-Speaking People |publisher=UBS Publishers' Distributors |year=2001 |isbn=81-7476-355-4 |url=http://books.google.co.in/books?id=6eYsAAAAMAAJ |page=25}}</ref> | ]s have an associated myth of origin stating that five Kayasthas accompanied the Brahmins from ] who had been invited to Bengal by the mythological king Adisur. Swarupa Gupta says this legend was "fitted into a quasi-historical, sociological narrative of Bengal and deployed to explain the realities of caste and sub-caste origins and connections during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century."<ref>{{cite book |last=Gupta|first=Swarupa |title=Notions of Nationhood in Bengal: Perspectives on Samaj, C. 1867-1905 |publisher=Brill |year=2009 |isbn=978-90-04-17614-0 |url=http://books.google.co.in/books?id=AGSuVgPH9T4C&pg=PA103 |pages=103-104}}</ref> According to this legend, the three clans to become the main Kulin Kayastha communities are Bose/Basu, Ghosh and Mitra.<ref name=Hopkins1989pp35-36>{{cite book |title=Krishna consciousness in the West |editor1-first=David G. |editor1-last=Bromley |editor2-first=Larry D. |editor2-last=Shinn |first=Thomas J. |last=Hopkins |chapter=The Social and Religious Background for Transmission of Gaudiya Vaisnavism to the West |publisher=Bucknell University Press |year=1989 |isbn=978-0-8387-5144-2 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=F-EuD3M2QYoC |pages=35–36 |accessdate=2011-10-31}}</ref> Multiple versions of this legend exist, and while some historians consider this legendary story to be baseless,<ref name=IndianStudiesp220>{{cite book |title=Indian Studies: Past & Present, Volume 10 |publisher=University of California |year=1969 |url=http://books.google.co.in/books?id=5wm2AAAAIAAJ |page=220}}</ref> others consider this to be nothing more than myth or folklore which lacks historical authenticity.<ref name=NKSenguptap25>{{cite book |last=Sengupta|first=Nitish K. |title=History of the Bengali-Speaking People |publisher=UBS Publishers' Distributors |year=2001 |isbn=81-7476-355-4 |url=http://books.google.co.in/books?id=6eYsAAAAMAAJ |page=25}}</ref> | ||
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Bengali Kayastha is a community in Bengal. It is a regional subgroup of the Kayastha caste of India. In pre-colonial history of Bengal, it was among the highest of Hindu castes in the region, along with Brahmins and Baidyas.
History
Kulin Kayasthas have an associated myth of origin stating that five Kayasthas accompanied the Brahmins from Kanauj who had been invited to Bengal by the mythological king Adisur. Swarupa Gupta says this legend was "fitted into a quasi-historical, sociological narrative of Bengal and deployed to explain the realities of caste and sub-caste origins and connections during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century." According to this legend, the three clans to become the main Kulin Kayastha communities are Bose/Basu, Ghosh and Mitra. Multiple versions of this legend exist, and while some historians consider this legendary story to be baseless, others consider this to be nothing more than myth or folklore which lacks historical authenticity.
References
- 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.
- Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar (2004). Caste, Culture, and Hegemony: Social Dominance in Colonial Bengal. Sage Publications. p. 20. ISBN 81-7829-316-1.
- Gupta, Swarupa (2009). Notions of Nationhood in Bengal: Perspectives on Samaj, C. 1867-1905. Brill. pp. 103–104. ISBN 978-90-04-17614-0.
- Hopkins, Thomas J. (1989). "The Social and Religious Background for Transmission of Gaudiya Vaisnavism to the West". In Bromley, David G.; Shinn, Larry D. (eds.). Krishna consciousness in the West. Bucknell University Press. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-0-8387-5144-2. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
- Indian Studies: Past & Present, Volume 10. University of California. 1969. p. 220.
- Sengupta, Nitish K. (2001). History of the Bengali-Speaking People. UBS Publishers' Distributors. p. 25. ISBN 81-7476-355-4.