Kanyakubja Brahmin
Kanyakubj Brahmins are a Brahmin community found in central India, mainly in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. The word Kanyakubja means Brahmins of the Kannauj region. Kannauj region was spread to border of Vidisha in ancient times.Most of the Kanyakubjas was landlords during the colonial rule in Awadh, Kannauj region and Bhojpuri region of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Chattisgarh. During Crowning Ceremony of Chhtrapati Shivaji, a kanyakubja brahmin named Gagabhatta had been invited for performing rituals. At that time with Gagabhatta 13 Kanyakubja Brahmin families shifted to south maharashtra and mixed with local brahmin. Most of the kanyakubj brahmins had large kingdom during the time of pushyamitra shung,which was the kanyakubj brahmin of bhardwaj gotra.Later kanyakubj brahmins retained their kingdom in the forest region of india during muslim ruler.Kanyakubj Brahmins are direct descended of lord parshuraM and rishi bhardwaj.
Famous personalities
- Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'
- Atal Bihari Vajpai
- Ravishankar Shukla
- Shyama Charan Shukla
- Ashwani Choube
- Ashish Ojha
- Manoj Bajpai
- Vivek Bajpai
- shri ram
- prashuram
- chandra shekhar azad
- Ashish Dwivedi
Notes
Ashish Tripathi
Ashish Tiwari From Tikamgarh
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- (Ashish Dwivedi) Kanyakubja Brahmin From Tikamgarh (MP)
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