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Bengali Kayastha is a caste or community of Hindus in Bengal, and a sub-caste of the Kayastha caste in India.

Bengali Kaysathas are regarded as the highest Hindu castes along with Brahmins and Baidyas in the caste system of Bengal, that comprise the "upper layer of Hindu society". Bengali Kayasthas form a considerable part of the population in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam and in the country of Bangladesh.

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

Kayasthas also receive honorific titles during the erstwhile Mughal & British period. Common honorific titles are -Majumdar, Sarkar, Roy, Bakhshi, Chaudhury, Dastidar, 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

References

  1. Inden, Ronald B. (1976). Marriage and Rank in Bengali Culture: A History of Caste and Clan in Middle Period Bengal. University of California Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-520-02569-1. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
  2. >Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar (2004). Caste, Culture, and Hegemony: Social Dominance in Colonial Bengal. Sage Publications. p. 20. ISBN 81-7829-316-1.
  3. Bhattacharya, Jogendra Nath (1896). Hindu Castes and Sects. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co. p. 175. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
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