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Kashyap (caste)

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329: 407: 355: 182:(hermit) from whom the eponymous gotra Brahmins believe to have descended. The Brahmanical clan system was later emulated by people as an early example of the 479: 436: 446: 66: 397: 186:
process. In more recent times, the All-India Kashyap Rajput Mahasabha pressure group was established prior to the 1941 census of
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There were proposals in 2013 that some or all of the communities related to Kashyap in the state should be reclassified as
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They are among 17 OBC communities that were again proposed for Scheduled Caste status by the
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category. Whether or not this would happen was a significant issue in the campaign for the
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Islamization in Modern South Asia: Deobandi Reform and the Gujjar Response
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to lobby the census authorities to record the caste as
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Hindi
English
Uttar Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh
Chandigarh
Punjab
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu Kashmir
ladakh
Mehra
Mehra Rajput
Kashyap mehra
Mehra
Mehra Rajput
Rajput
Koshyal
Kanshilya
popular names
caste
gotras
Brahmins
Kashyapa
rishi
sanskritisation
British India
Scheduled Castes
system of positive discrimination
Other Backwards Class
2014 Indian general election

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