Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "சித்திரகுப்த வம்ச காயஸ்தர்கள்" in Tamil language version.
अब चित्रगुप्त के विवाह संबंध की वार्ता सुनिए। इनकी दो स्त्रियां थीं-(१)सुशर्मा ब्राह्मण की कन्या शुभावती (ब्राह्मणी) जिसके आठ पुत्र हुए श्रौर (२)श्राद्धदेव मनु की पुत्री नन्दिनी (चत्रिया) जिसके चार पुत्र हुए।
...its main adherents came from those in government service, qualified professionals such as doctors, engineers and lawyers, business entrepreneurs, teachers in schools in the bigger cities and in the institutes of higher education, journalists [etc]...The upper castes dominated the Indian middle class. Prominent among its members were Punjabi Khatris, Kashmiri Pandits and South Indian brahmins. Then there were the 'traditional urban-oriented professional castes such as the Nagars of Gujarat, the Chitpawans and the Ckps (Chandrasenya Kayastha Prabhus)s of Maharashtra and the Kayasthas of North India. Also included were the old elite groups that emerged during the colonial rule: the Probasi and the Bhadralok Bengalis, the Parsis and the upper crusts of Muslim and Christian communities. Education was a common thread that bound together this pan Indian elite... But almost all its members spoke and wrote English and had had some education beyond school
...they are however kept in much greater seclusion than women of the rajputs...
The Rajputs, Khatris and Kayasthas....openly keep women slaves....
प्रेमचन्द की रखैल शायद....
In villages, the castes publicly proclaim their belief in separate origin tales by worshiping their originators or the primary representatives of their castes in the form of deities. The organisation and celebration of the Govardhan Puja by the Yadavs, the Chitragupta Puja by the Kayasthas...
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)In villages, the castes publicly proclaim their belief in separate origin tales by worshiping their originators or the primary representatives of their castes in the form of deities. The organisation and celebration of the Govardhan Puja by the Yadavs, the Chitragupta Puja by the Kayasthas...
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)They were broadly considered by various Indian, British and missionary observers to be the most learned and influential of the "service castes".
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)One example is the 'pen and inkpot prayer' (qalam dawat puja). This puja, a veneration of the pen, inkpot and Chitragupta, was symbolic not only of their heritage...
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)They were broadly considered by various Indian, British and missionary observers to be the most learned and influential of the "service castes".
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)One example is the 'pen and inkpot prayer' (qalam dawat puja). This puja, a veneration of the pen, inkpot and Chitragupta, was symbolic not only of their heritage...
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)Kayasthas took quickly to meat eating...Yet, it must be stressed that...
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