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Kurmis are a caste of people who are known as "Kurmi Kshatriyas", traditionally kings, in Nepal and West India. They are officially classified as an Other Backward Class by the government of India.

The word Kurmi in Sanskrit dictionary – "Bhuhu Ashy Iti Kurmi" means whoever has the land is a Kurmi. "Kurmi" in Sanskrit literally translates as "I can" or "I am able" and is directly associated with the self, ability and action -- all traits ascribed to kshatriyas. Kurmis divide themselves into Suryavanshis and Chandravanshis with the Suryavanshis claiming to be from the same clan as the legendary King Rama of Ayodhya, the name of whose wife Sita literally means "furrow" or the line made by a plow. The Kurmis along with the Khatris, Yadavas and Khanbis are often considered to form the original Aryan Vedic kshatriyas

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A false misleading claims that every Kurmi say with the proud feeling that they are Khatriyas and descendant of Aryan race.Nowhere it is said that they are khatriyas . Their physical features are not like Aryans. Kurmis are mostly dark-skinned,short height,eye ridges and their face cuttings are more like Australoids. Even anthropologists have said that they are come from the stock of Australods. "Kurmi" is a word of Austro-asiatic language meaning 'human being'. It is not a word of Indo-European language as the Kurmis caimed. Yes it is right they have some Aryan morphological features. This is due to the admixture with the neighbouring Aryan castes. Yadavas, Jats, Khatries are Schythians which had entered India during 400 B.C. to 100 A.D. They are Aian castes. While Brahmins which are only pure Aryans, they had reached India during 1500 B.C. to 1000 B.C. In course of time they mixed with the indigenous people and their offsprings were termed as mixed castes. They were given the title "Kshatriya". In Article 9 sholka 320, Manu says, “Though so much of pain is given by kshatriyas to Brahmins even then only Brahmin can become ruler, as kshatriyas are son of Brahmins”. In Mahabharat, when parshuram became very angry, he killed kshatriyas. Even those parganent ladies were killed so that no new kshstriyas will be born. In Mahabharat, it is also written in sloka 353 and 363 that lady kshatriyas were told to go to Brahmins and give birth to a child and these in future will be called as kshatriyas. In all vedic literature, Ramayana Mahabharat, Geeta, Upnishada, Smrutis, everywhere it is written that kshatriyas are sons of others.

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