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Bengali Kayasthas are one of the top 3 elite castes among Hindu Bengalis(other 2 castes being Brahmin & Baidya) present commonly in the Indian states of WestBengal,Tripura,Assam & in the country of Bangladesh.Bengali Kayasthas are Hindu by religion.Kayastha is an upper caste.Common Kayastha surnames are Basu/Bose,Ghosh,Mitra,Guha,Sen,Singha/Sinha,Dutta,Dey/Deb,Das/Dass,Kar,Dhar,Nag,Nandi,Palit,etc.Kayasthas also received honourific titles during the erstwhile Mughal & British period.Common honourific titles are Majumder,Sarkar,Roy,Bakshi,Chowdhury,Dastidar,Pal/Paul,Munshi,Biswas,Mondal/Mandal,Sikder,Halder,Mallick/Mullick,Barman,Samaddar,Tarafder,Tapader etc.Compounded Kayastha surnames includes BasuRoy,BasuMallick,BasuMondal,GhoshDastidar,GhoshRoy,MitraMajumder,MitraMustafi,GuhaRoy,GuhaMajumder,GuhaMallick,GuhaBiswas,DuttaRoy,DuttaMajumder,DuttaChowdhury,DeySarkar/DebSarkar,DebRoy,DebChowdhury,DebBarman,D/DebBiswas,DeySikder,DeyBakshi,DasRoy,DasThakur,DasMunshi,DasChowdhury,RoyChowdhury,SinhaRoy,DeyBiswas etc.