Talk:Bengali Brahmin

• A little tidying up is required. --Bhadani 08:35, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

placed appropriate tags

due to lack of citations and other appropriate tags are placed , kindly try to improve the article by placing necessary citations and/or rewrite it according to wiki . regards : --@ the $un$hine . (talk) 19:28, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Baidya

Hi,

   Can anyone provide more details about Bengali Baidyas and how they are a part of Brahmin community? I want to know more.

this article says that kayasth clan was formed by the servants of Brahmins. Historically, this is wrong. The history of Kayastha community can be veiwed in its wikipedia entry.

Tags

The article Bengali Brahmins was in a bad shape. I added a lot of well referenced material, although I was not able to get as many sources as I would have liked, because most of modern scholars are not interested in such topics. I think present tags are too strict to implement, and may induce some less informed editor to destroy this article partially or wholly. Instead of placing tags, one should ask editors to improve this article. I fear one will not get editors to one's liking, because relevant academic sources are hard to find, as far as this article is concerned. If one pushes the matter, he/she will attract only chauvinists who will destroy this article. -VJha (talk) 10:40, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

yup i agree , hope these tags will attract bengal members so tht it may take a good shape , its a good work from ur part . regards:--@ the $un$hine . (talk) 13:30, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Added 'Genetics' Heading

I added a section on genetics of the caste group. Hope that is beneficial for the article... --Fylindfotberserk (talk) 19:13, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

The reference of Haplogroup percentages under Genetics section is absolutely as per wikipedia guidelines listed Wikipedia:PSTS.

Policy on Primary Source-

Primary sources that have been reliably published may be used in Wikipedia, but only with care, because it is easy to misuse them.

Took Sengupta et al as the primary source. I did not misuse the data provided by it. Check the references.

Policy on Primary Source-
A primary source can be used only to make descriptive statements that can be verified by any educated person without specialist knowledge.

Policy on Secondary Source-

Articles may include analytic or evaluative claims only if these have been published by a reliable secondary source.

Any educated person may calculate the percentages as such. Besides it is a norm to present the data as percentages. Check any article on Haplogroup in wikipedia or outside sources.

As far as the analytic and evaluative claims are concerned, I’ve taken the "….as a founder lineage for this caste group." line from Sharma et al which is a significant secondary source for the Sengupta study. Besides these Sengupta et al has been referenced in 19 articles listed here which according to WP guidelines provide plenty of secondary sources for the published Sengupta Data. --Fylindfotberserk (talk) 19:50, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

In "Bengali Brahmins" article about "Kayastha Bengali Brahmins" are not mentioned. why?

In "Bengali Brahmins" article about "Kayastha Bengali Brahmins" are not mentioned. why? According to the "Kayastha" article in wikipedia Kayastas are Brahmins and holding dual cast status Brahmin and Kshatriya. So kindly mention all Bengali kayastha peoples name and there titles in the "Bengali Brahmins" Article. Thank you.