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  Shashi Bhushan Rai's Bhumihar Samaj
I dedicate it proudly to Bhumihar community, which lives mainly in the Gangetic plains of north India.
Bhumihar (or Babhan) is a Hindu brahmin community, which has taken up land and given up (i.e.
The Bhumihar nomenclature is quiet recent one, but we were known as brahmins only from the beginning.
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  Fragmented Rainbows: Bhumihar Brahmins
In the mythological perspective, Bhumihar Brahmins identify themselves with Bhagwan Parashurama, who was a Brahmin and who is believed to have destroyed from the earth 21 times all those Kshatriyas who had failed or forgotten their duties and had become retrograde.
Bhumihar Brahmins are agriculturists, a pursuit considered to be beneath the diginity of pure or orthodox Brahmins.
Bhumihar comes from two hindi words "bhumi" and "har" while bhumi as u know means land "har" means to abduct or to acquire something by illegal means.
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 bhumihar dhokebaz
bhumihar ki budhhi jis din paa lenge yeh non madarchod usi din mar jayenge, itna bardasht hi nahin hoga.
Bhumihar ka matlab hai bhumi jisse sare paida hote hai.
bhumihar brahmin ke chodne se sare log jo apne ko sirf brahmin kahte hai paida huye hai.
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 Rediff On The NeT: Constituency/Jehanabad
And the man alleged to be responsible for the police firing was a Bhumihar minister of the Congress party.
Finally, in the third year of the blockade some middle Bhumihar farmers, pushed to the verge of starvation, started to till their land themselves.
According to Jitendra Kumar, a postal department employee, Bhumihar youth are not going all out in Arun Kumar's favour as he lacks the capacity of previous Bhumihar leaders.
www.indiaabroad.com /election/1999/sep/11bihar.htm   (964 words)

  
  Bhumihar   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The descendants and associates of Parshuram are called Bhumihar brahmins in Eastern U.P. and Bihar, Goud Brahmins in U.P. and Rajasthan, Chitpawan Brahmins in Maharashtra, Anavil Brahmins in Gujarat, Havyak Brahmins in Karnataka, Iyer and Iyengar Brahmins of Tamil Nadu, Namboothiri Brahmins in Kerala, Bengali Brahmins in Eastern India and Mohyals in the Punjab region.
Swami Sahajanand Saraswati was from Jijhoutia clan of Bhumihar Brahmins.
Bhumihar Brahmin always used Brahmin Surnames as they are Brahmins but they also adopted titles of Rajputs, Muslims and many others communities suggesting the source of the land grants which they came to hold.
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  Bhumihar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bhumihar Brahmins also known popularly as Bhumihars is a Hindu Brahmin Caste who have traditionally resided in fertile regions of Indo-Gangetic plains of North India, in the states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand.
Bhumihar Brahmins are addicted to agriculture, a pursuit considered to be undermining the diginity of pure or orthodox Brahmins.
Swami Sahajanand Saraswati was from this clan of Bhumihar Brahmins.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bhumihar   (1813 words)

  
 Bhumihar - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bhumihar is a sub-caste of the dominant shudra caste in India.
Bhumihar were referred to as "Military Shudra” by Francis Buchanan and as “Magadh Chamar” by William Adam in 1883.
Bhumihars don't take up menial work as a profession and are thus ranked above the other shudras in the ritual caste hierarchy.It has been prescribed by the vedas that shudras have six duties.Bhiumihars concern themselves with only three of those duties.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Bhumihar   (630 words)

  
 Bhumihar Brahmin Matrimonials
About Bhumihar Brahmin: Bhumihar Brahmin is the name of a Brahmin jati (sub-caste) who have traditionally resided in fertile regions of Indo-Gangetic plains of North India, in the states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand.
Bhumihar Brahmins had originally been the most powerful economic and social sub-caste of Brahmins in Eastern U.P. and Bihar, It is a class of people who are supposedly hard working and honest.
For example, Bhumihars from Dighwa who went to Barahiya and settled there is known as Dighwait Bhumihars, similarly, Eksaria Bhumihars belongs to Eksaar village in Balia but spread over complete Saran district of Bihar.
www.surfindia.com /matrimonials/bhumihar-brahmin.html   (315 words)

  
 Killing at Mirzapur, Jehanabad on 13 January, 2004
In fact, the police officers said that the caste hatred between the Bhumihars and the Yadavas was so strong and intense in the area that even if some minor conflict between the two communities occurred, the people passing by might be killed if they were identified to belong to the enemy caste.
Similarly Bhumihar villages have been targeted by the CPI (ML) groups and defenseless innocent persons murdered because all Bhumihars are believed to be supporters of the Ranveer Sena.
The castes hatred between the Bhumihars and the Yadavas has assumed a dangerous proportion disrupting normal life in the area and needs to be addressed at the earliest by the saner sections of society of the state.
www.pucl.org /Topics/Industries-envirn-resettlement/2004/mirzapur.htm   (1748 words)

  
 PEOPLE-various calsses of people in Bihar-webindia123.com
Brahman, Bhumihar, Rajput, Banias and Kayastha are the dominant castes.
The Kayasthas are prominent in all modern professional occupations and are generally given the status of elite castes.
Bhumihars are regarded as a caste different from the Brahmans who consider the former inferior in the social hierarchy.
www.webindia123.com /bihar/people/people.htm   (606 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Weather | War of vengeance leaves ghost villages in its wake
Hundreds of Bhumihar pilgrims have come to Senari since the massacre, anger rising from their skin as they tramp to the pitiable heap of clothing marking where the men fell.
Last July, MCC cadres in fl sarongs descended on the village of Rampur with handbills banning all cultivation unless the Bhumihars handed over half of the crop and all the pond fish.
Young men - Dalits barred from working and Bhumihars too frightened or too proud to plough - are drifting away to the cities, and the old are growing hungry.
www.guardian.co.uk /World_Report/Story/0,,308005,00.html   (872 words)

  
 Bhumihar Did You Mean bhumihar   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bhumihar is the name of a Hindu jati (sub-caste) who have traditionally resided in fertile regions of Indo-Gangetic plains of North India, mostly in the states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand.
The word Bhumihar consists of two Hindi words, bhumi, meaning "land" and ahaar, meaning one who earns his/her living from the land.
In the context of mythological perspective, Bhumihars have traditionally identified themselves with Parashuram, who is beleived to have killed all the Kshatriyas from the earth 21 times.
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 Bhumihar « WordPress.com
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 Havyaka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Like most Brahmins in India, Havyakas are believed to have migrated from somewhere up north in India many, many centuries ago.
In the north their counterpart Brahmins are known as Bhumihar Brahmins who reside mostly in eastern U.P. and Bihar.
There are historical evidences to prove that this community was associated with the Kadamba Empire in the central Karnataka in the 5th century AD.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Havyaka   (275 words)

  
 Lakshmanpur Bathe
It has to be seen in the context of the history of agrarian conflict between overwhelmingly landed upper castes (mainly bhumihars and rajputs in the region) and the largely landless or small peasantry belonging primarily to the backward and scheduled castes.
For it is true that while landed bhumihars remain at the head of the Sena, it draws its strength from the fact that the small farmers belonging to the caste support it and form its rank and file.
It is this hegemony of bhumihar landowners that is being challenged by the peasant organisations.
revolutionarydemocracy.org /rdv4n2/lakshman.htm   (3369 words)

  
 India Culture Disucssion chat forums
Bhumihar is a sub-caste of the dominant shudra caste in India.
Bhumihar the word, is derived from "bhumi" and "ahar" which means someone who earns his living from the land, hence the English equivalent comes as "peasant".
Bhumihar were referred to as "Military Shudra” by Francis Buchanan and as “Magadh Chamar” by William Adam in 1883.
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 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
Though the Bhumihars may not be able to decide a poll outcome on their own strength, they can surely prove a deciding factor.
The RJD chief appealed to the Bhumihars to forget the “old acrimony against me” and join hands with him, saying he had profound respect for the “twice-borns”.
According to party insiders, Laloo Prasad was not so much working to corner Bhumihar votes as to engineer a split in their votes so that the prospects of the NDA could be punctured.
www.telegraphindia.com /1030611/asp/nation/story_2056696.asp   (614 words)

  
 Bihar - Changing images of caste and politics - Walter Hauser
This conflict finally resulted in the dissolution of the Bhumihar Mahasabha at its Monghyr session in the summer of 1929 when Sahajanand refused to accept as president of the Sabha the loyalist Sir Ganesh Dutt Singh.
First, in his nationalist efforts at the 1929 Monghyr Bhumihar Mahasabha, and second, that despite all differences with the Congress, it was Sahajanand's militant peasant activism in the 1930s which ultimately created the political climate that made zamindari abolition possible in the years after Independence.
It is also the case that this element of loyalty was a reflection of the prominent presence of dominant land controllers and urban professionals in the cast sabhas.
www.lib.virginia.edu /area-studies/SouthAsia/Misc/Sss/whcastep.htm   (4944 words)

  
 Bhumihar Brahmin Samachaar Patrika
It is well known fact that Sri Rituraj is volunteer of Bhumihar Brahmin Human Development Foundation which are in scholarships to Brahmarshis deserving students from East UP and BIHAR.
Mokama adjacent to Begusarai district is largely a ‘Bhumihar’ based community with farming as its prime occupation.
The fertilizer factory was shut down, various units of thermal factory were forced to close due to the shortage of raw coal and thus youth remained unemployed.
www.bhumihar.net   (2142 words)

  
 CHUTIA BHUMIHAR
saale bhumihar jaisi kutti qaum ki chamchagiri karata hai.
Bhumihar finds reference in modern times only.The theory is that some shudras were elevated to the rank of brahmins by a king in Bihar who had disputes with brahmins.The evidence which support it is that they have subcastes like domkatar(dom with weapon),dholbajja(drum beaters),Dugamia(literally meaning bastards).
abe bhumihar ko gali dene wala solkan madhar chod akbar ka aulad teri man ka bhosra samne aja teri man ki chot par 15 agust ka jhanda fahra dunga aur nahi to gauhati rajdhani dauradunga pran kumar singh
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 Bhumihar.Com : A global network of bhumihar brahmins
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BHUMIHAR'S ARE NOT JUST AGRICULTURISTS- PARASHAR SMRITI CALLS THEM AYUDHOPJIVI BRAHMINS THAT MEANS MARTIAL RACE OF BRAHMINS DEDICATED TO DEFEND GEOPOLITICAL BOUNDARY OF THEIR MOTHER LAND INDIA.
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 Rediff On The NeT: Home secretary's transfer bodes ill for Vajpayee & Co
Though being a bhumihar, Singh was suspected by many in the BJP rank as he was appointed during the time of the United Front government.
With hardly any Bhumihar calling the shot in the BJP the state party leadership was pinning the hope that the presence of the Union home secretary may, one way or the other, help the party electorally -- though they were full aware that Singh has little to do with the Hindutva party.
Veteran CPI leader Shatrughan Prasad Singh, a Bhumihar, was quick to fax a message to the Election Commission demanding the immediate revocation of the transfer order.
www.rediff.com /news/1999/may/08bihar.htm   (817 words)

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