Talk:Kashyap (caste)

WTF?
This article looks like it may need to be reverted way back to an earlier version but because I don't know the topic, I'm unable to determine what the last stable version of this article was. Can someone with knowledge of the topic please address this? Thanks. -- WikHead (talk) 11:28, 5 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Ok 2409:40E6:3A:D235:D810:DCCE:6724:70FC (talk) 06:53, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

The giant reference
I don't understand what's going on with that. Could someone please fix it? Thanks, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 05:53, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Kashyap Samaj
Jervoise Athelstane Baines, ( 1893 ), General report on the Census of India, 1891 , London , Her Majesty’s Stationery Office , p. 196

The class of fishers is broken up into a large number of small castes. Those given in the margin are the best representatives, either of the group as a whole or of a special province, but they are probably mixed up together in the returns. For instance, the Dhimar and Jhinwar are probably the Panjáb and Central Indian equivalents of the Kahár, from whose ranks they sprang. Looking at the peculiar position occupied everywhere by the class of fishers, especially those who are very largely engaged in non­piscatorial work, it is clear that there is some racial basis for the anomalous rules and privileges attached to this caste. The fisher will carry any burden that is supported on a pole across his shoulder, but may refuse a head load or knapsack. He can give water to men of far higher caste, and become a servant in the recesses of their establishment; he can even knead dough, &c. for their bread, but must not lay a finger on it once it has been put into an oven or on the baking-plate. Yet he is allowed to indulge in ardent spirits and to eat strange food on which the orthodox may not even look, and is admitted to functions from which far more wealthy and reputable castes are rigorously excluded. As regards the nomenclature of the castes selected for mention, the Kahár is the form adopted throughout the North­West Provinces and Bihár; the Jhinwar is the Panjab equivalent, and the Dhimar that adopted in the Central Provinces and its neighbourhood. In Assam we have seen that the two castes, which are classed in Bengal as agricultural, constitute, with the Kéwat, the bulk of the fishing class, whilst the Kéwat of Hindustan is Class IV. Fishers 8,261,878 1. Kahár 1,943,155 2. Mallah 1,147,544 3. Kéwat 989,352 4. Bhoi 606,190 5. Jhinwar 489,819 6. Dhimár 287,436 7. Gaurhi 317,111 8. Machhi 260,496 probably the Kaibartta of the Lower Ganges. The Mallah is prevalent in both these provinces. In the table, some of this caste are attributed to Haidrabád, but it seems very likely that they belong to the agricultural labourers, called Mála in the Madras Presidency. Amongst other widespread castes of this group comes the Bhói, which is apparently the Telingána version of Kahár, and is spread also over the Western Presidency and Rajputana, and the Béstá, which prevails still further south. The rest are almost entirely local. Muháno is the Sindh fisher caste, Machhi is only found on the Indus and in Gujaráth, and Sembadáwan, Mogér, Pallé, &c. appertain to the south of the peninsula, east and west Dkkhatauli (talk) 17:38, 18 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Raj sources are not reliable. See, for example, Census of India prior to independence. - Sitush (talk) 09:29, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Jhinwar
Seems to be duplicated subject matter Sitush (talk) 01:06, 14 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Actually, I now see that it is not a synonym. Withdrawing. - Sitush (talk) 18:55, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

People of India
This huge, poor edit seems to be saying the information it included can be found in the Rajasthan volumes of The People of India. That is no good, I'm afraid, because the "states" series of the PoI has been deemed to be unreliable in discussions at WP:RSN. The "national" series - mostly volumes titled India's Communities - is fine. - Sitush (talk) 20:27, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 3 January 2022
Kashyaps are the oldest ones in the Hindu Dharma.They are the descendants of Maharishi Kashyap who gave birth to both the gods and the demons.All descendants like chandravansh,suryavansh,agnivansh were basically from Kashyap Kul. 2402:3A80:15DB:5EB4:0:2C:7B2D:9D01 (talk) 13:26, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
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Remove Rajput
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निकेश कश्यप जी (talk) 13:13, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

Add New Logo निकेश कश्यप जी (talk) 13:13, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
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MEHRA ARE RAJPUT BELONGS FROM JAMMU AND KASHMIR,Punjab, Haryana 117.98.102.37 (talk) 12:11, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
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