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Bengali Kayasthas are one of the top three castes among Hindu Bengalis (other two being Brahmin & Baidya), present commonly in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam and 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, Singh/Sinha, Dutta, Dey/Dev, Das/Dass, Kar, Dhar, Chanda/Chandra, Nag, Nandi, Palit, etc.
Kayasthas also received 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