Misplaced Pages

Mahajan is an Indian surname and caste that belongs to the Hindu Vaishya Baniya community of Punjab. It signifies the profession of a merchants, bankers, and moneylenders.

The word mahajan generally refers to a rich businessman, and the last name may be found in that caste.

Mahajans of the Deccan (i.e. Maharashtra, Telangana, and north Karnataka) are mainly Deshastha Brahmin, while mahajans of North India are mainly Bania, a mercantile community.

Notable people with this surname include:

• Poonam Mahajan, Indian politician
• Ashwani Mahajan, Indian economist, National Co-Convener, Swadeshi Jagran Manch; Professor at PG DAV College
• Harsh Mahajan, Indian politician
• Mehr Chand Mahajan, former Chief Justice of India and former Prime Minister of Kashmir
• Pramod Mahajan, Indian politician (Maharashtra State)
• Neha Mahajan, Indian Actress and Model
• Rahul Mahajan, American blogger
• Rahul Mahajan, Indian reality TV personality
• Sumitra Mahajan, Indian politician, speaker of the 16th Lok Sabha
• Vijay Mahajan, former Dean of the Indian School of Business, a Marketing professor at the McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin
• Vikram Chand Mahajan, Indian politician, Senior Advocate (Supreme Court of India)
• Girish Mahajan, Indian politician

References

1. Ian Stone (25 July 2002). Canal Irrigation in British India: Perspectives on Technological Change in a Peasant Economy. Cambridge University Press. pp. 356–. ISBN 978-0-521-52663-0. mahajan : merchant, moneylender
2. Jonathan P. Parry, ed. (13 September 2013). Caste and Kinship in Kangra. Routledge. pp. 110–. ISBN 978-1-136-54585-6.
3. Bam Dev Sharda (24 August 2005). "Status allocation in middle India". In David Bills (ed.). The Shape of Social Inequality: Stratification and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective. Elsevier. pp. 229–. ISBN 978-0-08-045935-6.

• Surnames
• Vaishya community
• Surnames of Indian origin
• Surnames of Hindu origin