Mahajan
Mahajan is an Indian surname.This is popular from Khandesh Region for Kshtriya Gurjar Comunitiy. It signifies the profession of a moneylender or merchant.[1]
In the caste system, Mahajan is a trader who belongs to the Kshtriya and Vaishya varna and the last name may be found in that caste.[2][3]
Notable people
Notable people with this surname include:
- Ashwani Mahajan, economist, National Co-Convener, Swadeshi Jagran Manch; Professor at PG DAV College
- Harsh Mahajan, Indian politician
- Mehr Chand Mahajan, former Chief Justice of India and former Prime Minister of Kashmir
- Pramod Mahajan, an Indian politician (Maharashtra State)
- Rahul Mahajan, an American blogger
- Rahul Mahajan, Indian reality TV personality
- Sumitra Mahajan, an Indian politician Who is the speaker of the 16th Lok Sabha
- Vijay Mahajan, former Dean of the Indian School of Business, a Marketing professor at the McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin
- Vikram Chand Mahajan, an Indian politician, Senior Advocate (Supreme Court of India)
- Girish Mahajan, an Indian politician
- Gulabrao Patil, an Indian politician
References
- ^ Ian Stone (25 July 2002). Canal Irrigation in British India: Perspectives on Technological Change in a Peasant Economy. Cambridge University Press. pp. 356–. ISBN 978-0-521-52663-0.
mahajan : merchant , moneylender
- ^ Jonathan P. Parry, ed. (13 September 2013). Caste and Kinship in Kangra. Routledge. pp. 110–. ISBN 978-1-136-54585-6.
- ^ Bam Dev Sharda (24 August 2005). "Status allocation in middle India". In David Bills (ed.). The Shape of Social Inequality: Stratification and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective. Elsevier. pp. 229–. ISBN 978-0-08-045935-6.
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