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'''Bengali Kayasthas''' is one of the top three casts of the Hindu ] (the other two being ] & ]), that are present in the Indian states of ], ], ] and in the country of ]. Bengali Kayasthas is Hindu by religion. ] is an upper caste. '''Bengali Kayastha''' is one of the top three castes of the Hindu ] (the other two being ] & ]), that are present in the Indian states of ], ], ] and in the country of ]. Bengali Kayasthas is Hindu by religion. ] is an upper caste.


Common Kayastha surnames are - Basu/Bose, Ghosh, Mitra, Guha, Sen, Singh/Sinha, Dutta, Dey/Dev, Das/Dass, Kar, Dhar, Chanda/Chandra, Nag, Nandi, Palit, etc. Common Kayastha surnames are - Basu/Bose, Ghosh, Mitra, Guha, Sen, Singh/Sinha, Dutta, Dey/Dev, Das/Dass, Kar, Dhar, Chanda/Chandra, Nag, Nandi, Palit, etc.

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Bengali Kayastha is one of the top three castes of the Hindu Bengalis (the other two being Brahmin & Baidya), that are present in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam and in the country of Bangladesh. Bengali Kayasthas is Hindu by religion. Kayastha is an upper caste.

Common Kayastha surnames are - Basu/Bose, Ghosh, Mitra, Guha, Sen, Singh/Sinha, Dutta, Dey/Dev, Das/Dass, Kar, Dhar, Chanda/Chandra, Nag, Nandi, Palit, etc.

Kayasthas also receive honourific titles during the erstwhile Mughal & British period. Common honourific titles are -Majumdar, Sarkar, Roy, Bakhshi, Chaudhry, Dastidar, Pal/Paul, Munshi, Biswas, Mondal/Mandal, Sikder, Halder, Malik/Mulik, Burman, Samaddar, Tarafder, Tapader, etc.

Compounded Kayastha surnames include:

  • BasuRoy
  • BasuMalik
  • BasuBhowmik
  • BasuMondal
  • GhoshDastidar
  • GhoshRoy
  • GhoshHazra
  • GuhaRoy
  • GuhaMajumdar
  • GuhaMalik
  • GuhaBiswas
  • MitraMajumdar
  • MitraMustafi
  • MitraThakur
  • DuttaMajumdar
  • DuttaMunshi
  • DuttaRoy
  • DuttaChaudhry
  • DuttaBurman
  • DeySarkar/DevSarkar
  • DeyBiswas/DevBiswas
  • DevRoy
  • DevChaudhry
  • DeyTarafder
  • DeyKirty
  • DeySikder/DebSikder
  • DeyMajumdar
  • DeyNeogi
  • DeyBakhshi
  • DevBurman
  • DasSikder
  • DasRoy
  • DasChaudhry
  • DasThakur
  • DasBakhshi
  • DasMunshi
  • SinghRoy/SinhaRoy
  • SinhaChaudhry
  • RoyChaudhry
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