Jujhautiya Brahmin

The Jujhautiya Brahmin (also spelled Jijhotia, Jajautia or Jujautia) are an endogamous Brahmin community found the Chambal and Yamuna river valleys in the north, and the Narbada valley in the south. Chhatarpur District in Madhya Pradesh is the centre and cultural focus of this community. They are a sub-group of the Kanyakubja Brahmins.[1]

Origin

According to the community's traditions, they acquired the name Jujhautiya, when a group of Kanyakubja Brahmins performed a yajna for Jhujhar Singh, the Bundela Rajah.[2] In Uttar Pradesh, they are found mainly in the districts Hamirpur, Jhansi and Banda.[1]

Social organization

The practice endogamy and clan exogamy, like most Brahmin castes. Their clans are known as pata, are placed into two groupings, Teen Ghars, consisting of the Tiwari, Chanke and Pande, and the Tera Ghar consisting of the Rawat, Richhariya, Misra, Pathak, Bhandairiya, Vajpai, Chaube, Nayak, Arjariya, Sudele, Dikhsit and the Tiwari of Aijhi.

The Jujhautiya were at one time substantial landowners, and zamindars of the estates of Gawrihar, Paldes, Navagaon, Bhesaunda, and Chaubepur Pahra.

Brahmin groups

Sudele is a Hindu Surname. Sudele belong to Brahmin Caste, and belong to the Jujhautiya Brahmin Community found in Bundelkhand Area in Uttar Pradesh, they belong to Parashar gotra (Sanskrit: गोत्र) means clan. They belong to Sage Vyasa lineage, and are worshiper of Shakti(Devanagari: शक्ति; from Sanskrit shak, "to be able").

Tiwari is a surname of the Hindu Brahmins communities commonly found in India and Nepal. Mostly used in Northern India, Tiwari is a common last name between Brahmins in the Indian states, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Uttarakhand, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. In Kerala it is "Sarma" (or Sarmah in Assam). Tiwari is an upper title in the Brahmin community.

Bajpai or Vajpayee is a North Indian Brahmin surname, predominant especially in Kanpur.[citation needed] It falls under a category of Brahmins known as Kanyakubjas, a group that also includes Awasthi, Dixits, Tewari, Tiwari, Tripathi, Agnihotri etc. The South Indian surname to that effect is Vajapeyar[1] As per legend, Bengali Brahmins, for instance Chatterjees owe their roots to the Kanyakubja region as well, and thus, are at times classified with them.

Dikshit is a Hindu family name. The word is an adjective form of the Sanskrit word diksha, meaning provider of knowledge. Dikshit in Sanskrit derives itself as a person involved in scientific studies, and literally translates as "one who has received initiation or one who is initiated". The surname is usually associated with high class Hindu Brahmins in India, especially in Punjab. People with this surname also have their roots in the Indian states of Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir, Gujarat, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, and Bengal.

Notable people

References

  1. 1 2 People of India Uttar Pradesh Volume XLII Part Two edited by A Hasan & J C Das pages 658 to 665 Manohar Publications
  2. ↑ The tribes and castes of the central provinces of India (1916) editted by Russell, Robert Vane, 1873-1915; Lal, Hira, Rai Bahadur, 1867
  3. 1 2 3 Sengupta, Nirmal (1982). "Agrarian Movements in Bihar". In Das, Arvind N. Agrarian Movements in India: Studies on 20th Century Bihar. Psychology Press. p. 51. ISBN 9780714632162.
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