Talk:Bhandari (caste)

Cleanup/overhaul
I have significantly reduced overtly detailed information regarding this article. It still needs verifiable sources.Sioschico (talk) 16:47, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

It have been doing reasearch, and have some outcomes, Its true that this caste had migrated from outside konkan region, we have geographical proof as we know, konkan region has surfaced from under the sea. If we study Indian Mithology,Lord parashurama migrated to this land. Along with him he took 96 kuli Kshatriya Maratha people with him to establish his own empire. out of which only 30 kuli could stay there in Konkan region rest left. my finding is that during Portugues rule of 450 years. these 96 Kuli Kshatriya maratha has to change their names and mention them as Bhandari caste(more specific) at avoid the atrocities from Portuguese against Maratha. The use teh name of the place or village they live in like, Mhaddolkar, Mangeskar, Pilgaonkar,Khandeparkar, Usgaonkar, Madkaikar, Shirodkar, Pednekar, Rasaikar,Madgaonkar,Panjekar, panshikar,Cankonkar, Vascokar was not used since name Vasco is given by potuges to vasco. Today also if you notice in goa. 50 years after goan freedom from portuges empire. These surname change is concentrated in the area where Portuguese had reached and rest of Goa who were against potuges rul and fighting angest them still have original Maratha Surmame ex. Desai, Surdesia, Raut, Rane, Marathe, Ghate, Hazare, Kadam, Salunke,khot, Bhosale, Gaude etc. so it has been noticed that Goa is the origin of the new caste Bhandari, slowly the have spread to neighboring states because of migration for jobs. we see many have migrated to Mumbai. we also note that most of the tample of bhandari caste are situated in and around Goa for this reason. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raj031073 (talk • contribs) 04:37, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

AnSI as a source
Please see The People of India and past discussions at WP:RSN for reasons why we do not use the states series of that publication. The earlier "national" series, which was published by Oxford University Press, is indeed a quality source but the states series lost its way and basically plagiarised the discredited Raj "ethnographers". - Sitush (talk) 10:34, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

I am bhandari and we are nevy soldiers. After British came sone our society members turn to profession of toddy tapping. Please don't called us shudra. We are head of Indian nevy that time. Rohanum (talk) 15:19, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Who is GURU of Bhandaris
Nevla is considered as GURU of Bhandaris 114.31.148.111 (talk) 04:01, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Varna status
Please can we discuss and clean this up using reliable sources? We have to mention all views as per WP:NPOV. Once the cleanup is done, please move back to the main page. Temporarily taken to talk page to be added back to main article. ThanksLukeEmily (talk) 16:45, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Rohanum, you mentioned that they are classified as Kshatriya. Please can you give reliable citations for the same? The sources mention Shudra.LukeEmily (talk) 16:47, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

As per one view, the Bhandaris belong to the Shudra varna. However, some Bhandaris claim that they were originally Kshatriya traders from Rajputana who converted to Jainism. They also cite the practice of Sati and Jauhar amongst Konkan and Goa Bhandaris as representative of original Kshatriyas. Tukaram Padaval, who belonged to Bhandari caste and a close associate of Jyotiba Phule, said that the claim to Kshatriya status was common among many upper and lower castes but there was no certainty at all as to who among them are the original Kshatriyas. LukeEmily (talk) 16:45, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

achivements - to do
LukeEmily (talk) 10:25, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Add Naval contribution in Shivaji's time
 * Peshwa era