Brahman: Deccan

Select Language Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bulgarian Bengali Catalan Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Khmer Korean Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Maltese Marathi Nepali Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish

This is a collection of articles archived for the excellence of their content. Additional information may please be sent as messages to the Facebook community, Indpaedia.com. All information used will be gratefully acknowledged in your name.

Brahman: Deccan

This article is an extract from THE CASTES AND TRIBES OF H. E. H. THE NIZAM'S DOMINIONS BY SYED SIRAJ UL HASSAN Of Merton College, Oxford, Trinity College, Dublin, and Middle Temple, London. One of the Judges of H. E. H. the Nizam's High Court of Judicature : Lately Director of Public Instruction. BOMBAY THE TlMES PRESS 1920 Indpaedia is an archive. It neither agrees nor disagrees with the contents of this article. Secondly, this has been scanned from a book. You can help by sending the corrected version/ additional information to the Facebook page, Indpaedia.com. All information used will be duly acknowledged.

The Brahmans found in the Hyderabad Territory are divided into three great classes — the Maharashtra or Maratha, Carnatic or Kanaddi, and Andhra or Telugu, according to their locality. The Mahaj;ashtra Brahmans rank among the Ranch Dravida and derive their name from Maharashtra, a tract of country comprising portions of the Bombay Presidency, The Nizam's Dominions and Berar. They have several endogamous divisions, each of which is sub-divided into a large number of exogamous groups of an eponymous type, the eponym being a Vedic saint or Rishi. The main divisions of the Maratha Brahmans residing in the Nizam's Dominions are the Kokanastha, Deshastha and Karhada.