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Aich Surname Wikipedia

#Aich #Aitch #Aech #Surname #Kayastha #Kshatriya #Brahmin #Muslim #Hindu #Islam #Wiki #Austria #BadenWürttemberg #Germany #Bangladesh #Bikrampur #Dhaka

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Aich (also spelled as Aitch) is a Hindu #Bengali surname belonging to the Maulika Kayastha
Aguri (agro) caste mainly found in Burdwan or Birbhuma and Hoogly.

Kayasthas are a sub-caste of Hindus, found across both historical and modern India. The #Kayasthas emerged as a sub-caste or Caste of the #Kshatriyas in Bengal during
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BIG : On the auspicious day of #AkshayaTritiya and #ParshuramJayanti, Shivraj Singh Chauhan CM of #MadhyaPradesh announced that temples in MP will be freed from govt control.

Also, ₹ 5,000 monthly honorarium for priests across the state.
#FreeTemples

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Did you Know, there are 9 lakhs temples in India. Out of these 5 lakhs are controlled by Centre and 4 lakh controlled by State Government.

Govt. timely takes some percentage of Revenue from Mandir's Trust.

Previous govt used Temples as Cash Cow.

But, things are changing now.
CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan made a big announcement on Saturday, in regard to Hindu temples & priests, which many see as a precursor to ‘freeing the temples from government control.’
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The Moplah Revolt of 1921.

What is revealed is how rapidly the  All India  #Congress retreated whenever the masses were in motion, and how in this case a strategic political retreat necessitated a communalist rather than class view of an important peasant (1/25)
struggle.
The #Moplahs were #Muslim peasants in Malabar (now part of the state of #Kerala ) on India's west coast. In 1922 it had a population of 400,000, of which 163,328 were Hindus and 236,672 were Muslims. The Moplahs were amongst the most heavily exploited (2/25)
peas­ants in the entire subcontinent. Most of them worked as wage-labourers either on the land of others or on the rubber plantations. The #landlords in the region were virtually all upper-caste #Brahmin Hindus. In the century preceding 1921, there had been a total of (3/25)
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This is a thread on the tradition of #wrestling in #Pune. The city was once known as a centre of wrestling. Even in those conservative times, these akhadas or wrestling schools acted as melting pots.
#sports #Maharashtra #Marathi #caste
The vastads or wrestling coaches included both, non-Brahmins & Brahmins. Their students too cut across communities.
Balambhatdada Deodhar, the man who is said to have invented the sport of mallakhamb, Bhikobadada Agashe, Ganpatrao Barve, Pandoba Jog, Dada Damle were among the #Brahmin vastads in #Pune.
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Tallapaka Annamacharya popularly known as #Annamayya is a mystic saint composer born in 1408 CE in a small village named Tallapaka in Andhra Pradesh. He was a Telugu #Brahmin that popularized Vaishnavite faith in Andhra Pradesh during the 15th and 16th centuries. 👇
He was one of the earliest known musicians of India to compose 32,000 songs known as 'Sankeertanalu' in praise of Bhagwan Venkateswara.

Saint Annamayya known as the 'Toli Telugu Vaggeyakara' or the first lyricist, composer and singer of the Telugu literature.
Besides composing 32,000 Sankeertanas on Venkateswara and Alamelu Manga, Saint Annamayya also authored 12 Satakas, Ramayana in the form of Dwipada Sankeertana Lakshnam, Sringara Manjari and Venkatachala Mahatyam.
Most of his works were in Telugu and Sanskrit languages.
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The man who found Mercury sulphide and invented Soap!

Chakrapāni Dutta
Chakrapāni Dutta was a Ayurveda physician and sanskrit scholar,
He was born in the village of Mayureshwar of Bangal in the Brahmin family.
Chakrapāni discovered mercury sulphide. The credit for inventing soap also goes to him, he used mustard oil and some alkalies as ingredients for making soap.
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Learnt today that #alexanderthegreat of #macedonia #Greece had an #Indian guru the Greeks called "Kalanos" some say this was because he was a devotee of Kali .This #Hindu #Brahmin & Yogi stayed with Alexander till he was 73 & died by voluntarily walking into his own pyre
Ptolemy actually built his pyre & records the death as having taken place in Susa in 323BC .Kalanos distributed all the costly gifts he got from the king to the people and wore just a garland of flowers and chanted Vedic hymns as he walked into the Pyre.
He presented his horse to one of his Greek pupils named Lysimachus. He did not flinch as he burnt to the astonishment of those who watched. Although Alexander was not personally present at time of his immolation, his last words to Alexander were "We shall meet in Babylon".
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A Division Bench of Allahabad HC quashes FIR registered against Farhan Akhar (@FarOutAkhtar)and Ritesh Sidhwani (@ritesh_sid) and others for allegedly depicting the city Mirzapur in a bad light and hurting sentiments of #Brahmin samaj.

#allahabadhighcourt #Mirzapur
The FIR had stated that Mirzapur is a holy city belonging to the goddess '𝐕𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐡𝐲𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐢'and the web series depicts it as an anti-social and criminal place.

#Mirzapur #AmazonPrimeVideo #AllahabadHighCourt
Also, the informant in the case had also made allegations that web series specifically maligns '𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐡𝐦𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐣'.

He had alleged that the in the series Tripathi family was deliberately depicted in a bad light to defame Brahmins.

#brahmin #Mirzapur #allahabadhighcourt
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In this thread I'll debunk the delusion that #Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya or Shudrā is determined on the basis of their birth and not by their inherent qualities and behavior once and for all, as that's the root of all evil causing destruction of our civilization and existence !
Let's start with the saying of Adi Shankaracharya who was a proponent of Advaita Vedanta that revealed the highest metaphysical reality of the universe.

“न मे मृत्युशंका न मे जातिभेदः...” that means may neither be any fear of death nor any discrimination on the basis of caste.
This verse form Manusmriti is one of the most misinterpreted one. One should always focus on the word द्विज/ 2ⁿᵈ Birth attained due to संस्कार/education in real essence one gets.

So, a Shudrā by definition is that person who doesn't get ‘educated’, so he suffers eternally.
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Today #bahujans
If you have a little reasoning #power,then some #Questions are given to those sly
#Ask #Brahmins Q1) If Chhatrapati #Shivaji Maharaj was the protector of #Hindu religion, then your
Why didn't the father-grandfather crown him? @Profdilipmandal @ProfVilas [Thread]
Q2] Chhatrapati #ShivajiMaharaj you #Brahmins
Should have #danced on his shoulder as he was #fighting against the #Mughals
Were! Why were your ancestors #angry with him? [Thread]
Q3] If indeed #Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's Guru was Ramdas, then he
Why did #Guru #Ramdas Wrote a #foolish king [Shivaji Maharaj] in his Book Bodh Granth? @Profdilipmandal @ProfVilas @artinchow @BharadwajSpeaks [Thread]
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#Hindutva
Declaration: On 25th Sept, @indologuF will respond to #GDH organized by #leftwing activists with a view to help declining left politics
We will show how West is indebted to Hindus for it's own growth of science, maths, philosophy and linguistics. a grand opportunity.
First Sanskrit word, missionaries took to Europe was 'Om Sri Naraina Namah (1544)',
Meet us at #Delhi Press Club.
Europe called Hindus by many names - @Indians #Hindoo, #Gentoo, #Bramin, #Brahmin and now the popular name is #Hindutva; all referring to one culture one dharma
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How did the Tricolour become our National Flag?
The oldest continuous Civilization was not a “new nation in the making” when She got free from the Colonial clutches!
From prehistoric times, the Hindu #Bhagwa fluttered all over the land undivided by the sea- the Jambudwip.
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Bhagawa carries the memories of the #GloriousIndianHistory
From the 1- 6th century, the victorious Bhagwa Dhwaj adorned #Sindh #Baluchistan #Afghanistan Herat #Gilgit Ghazni .. with intermittent invasions.
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1st failed muzlem invasion occured in 635CE
Chach #Brahmin king of Sindh &his successor Dahir vanquished raiding Arabs who made 15 failed attempts to invade Bharatvarsh
711 came Bin Qasim,50000 strong
Arab platoons in Dahir's pay refused to fight muzlem’s jihad against kafirs!
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An interesting thread..
1. In 1795 through Article 11 Britishers made law by which Shudras were able to possess wealth.
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#indianfreedomstruggle #brahmin
2. In 1773 East India Company passed Regulating Act where judiciary was based on equality. By this law only capitalist Bengali Brahmin Nanda Kumar Dev was hanged on 6 may 1775 in case of forgery.
#brahmin #indianfreedomstruggle
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3. By 1804 Article 3 Britishers banned female foeticide/infanticide (after birth female child was killed by applying opium on the head of the child, by feeding milk after applying Datura on the breasts of the mother, by dipping the child in a pit filled with milk)

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Mini-#Thread on the austere lifestyle & spiritual capabilities of Wise Brahmins of India as recorded by Apollonius of Tyana (15-100 CE), the legendary Greek philosopher & famous anti-Christ whose works have reached us thru Romans like Philostratus & his Greek disciple like Damis.
As per Apollonius, based on his visits to India in beginning of CE, 👇#Hindu #sanatandharma #brahmin #brahman #sage #Dharma #History
“The Wise Men’s (Brahmins) nature and their way of life on the hill are described by Apollonius himself, since in one of his addresses to the Egyptians he says, ‘I saw the Indian Brahmans living on the earth and not on it...
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Mini-#Thread on how medieval times Islamic invaders/rulers looked down upon Brahmins, especially, to further their primary objective of converting our motherland to one of their own. #History #Brahmin #india #bharat #medieval #hindus #SanatanDharma
In Page 68 of Muslim Slave System in Medieval India By Prof K S Lal, the historian makes the following remark :-
“Muslim rulers in general and Firoz Tughlaq and Sikandar Lodi in particular considered the Brahmans as “the very keys of the chamber of idolatry in whom the Hindus reposed their trust. “
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Name #Dravidian for lang family was coined by Robert Caldwell who discussed this at length in “A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian Family of Languages”1856

He gives his rationale-justification, also cleverly sowing seeds for today’s “Dravidian movement”

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He sort of acknowledges Francis Whyte Ellis & Stevenson for recognising that today’s “#Dravidian” languages had much common between them, distinct from samskRta.
Ellis noted this in his intro to Alexander D Campbell’ book, “Grammar of the Teloogoo Language” (1816)

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But the idea of putting tamiZ at the centre of this language, giving it a disproportionately large importance wasn’t just Caldwell’s. He mentions the use of “tamulic” and “tamulian” for this family by European writers prior to him.

#Dravidian

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#Brahmin Yes. I am a proud Brahmin been imparted some of the finest knowledge and culture by my ancestors. Brahmin is not by birth but by his/her deeds and knowledge.
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Mahakavi Subrahmanya Bharathi was a Brahmin. He fought against the caste inequality and propagated women empowerment. Can you overlook his contributions just because he was a Brahmin?#Brahmin
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If #Brahmins are proud of their past, then own up to this 👉 "French anthropologist Jean-Claude Galey encountered in a region of eastern Himalayas the low-ranking castes in a situation of permanent debt dependency....It was common practice, Galey explains, for high-caste 1/5
moneylenders to demand one of the borrower's daughters as security. Often, when a poor man had to borrow money for his daughter's marriage, the security would be the bride herself. She would be expected to report to the lender's household after her wedding night, 2/5
spend a few months there as his concubine, and then, once he grew bored, be sent off to some nearby timber where she would have to spend the next year or two as camp, a prostitute working off her father's debt.
3/5 #Brahmin
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Bapna also Bafana or Bapna or Bafna (Hindi: बाफना / बाफणा )is Indian Jain or Brahmin community. The name was used 4 for Brahmin in #Andhra. Derived from Bahufana & Bafanha. Phaṇa ( Sk. phaṇa) the hood of a snake. How did #Jains end up with #Sudra??This is major spiritual #fraud
#Brahmins are apparently meant to be one group with Jains-this is covenant system. They were imposed on Sudra in British era when Tirupati temple was set up. #Nemi (Jain/Jinn) statue removed and the Tirupati Jinn installed. This is not good news 4 Brahmins as #Nemi is #wrathful
"To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning". "So the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead" (vegan) #Daniel 1:16 #JainBrahminAramic
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We reached our full human form, in the form of the warrior #Brahmin , #Parshurama #Avatara ,
the sixth incarnation of Shri Vishnu🙏🏻
Shiva blessed Him with the battle Axe, Parshu & Brahmastra, not to just destroy the evil but reclaim forest lands for habitation & cultivation.
The Founder of Bhriguvansha
Rishi Bhrigu’s son Richika was married to Satyavati, a Kahatriya Raja Gadhi’s daughter.
Their son, Rishi Jamadagni married Raja Prasanjit’s daughter, Renuka.
They had five sons, the youngest was the strong, courageous, well built #Parshurama #Avatara
Rishi Jamadagni fed Krityavir Arjun & his army when he’d camped near his ashram.Astonished with Rishi’s Cow, Kamdhenu/ Surabhi, Krityavir demanded for her & her calf.
On Jamadagni’s refusal, Krityavir’s men beat up the Rishi, devastated his ashram & carried away Kamdhenu & calf!
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Are Brahmins supposed to engage only in prayers preside over religious ceremonies & live on alms?

Time to acknowledge role of #Brahmins in building & preserving #Hindu society!

Dwellers of Saraswati banks, the Saraswat Brahmins are successors of Parshurama, the Brahmin warrior.
Parshurama led 21 campaigns against tyrant Karityavir Arjun of Haiya tribe whose capital was in Mahishmati (Maheshwar, M.P)
Parshurama conquered his lands & distributed them to Rishi Kashyap & his Brahmin warriors. These Mahipals(land owners) became Mohyals, the warrior Brahmins.
Dronacharya, a poor Brahmin came to Parshurama after he had given away all the land so Parshurama taught him art of war.
Dronacharya established an ashram across Shivalik ranges on banks of river Tons,where he taught Royal Princes.
The Dera of Drona, came to be called Dehradun.
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This is open hatred and stereotyping of the entire Brahmin community. I’m shocked that @TwitterIndia representatives can take part in such a meeting and the Twitter head displays such anti-Brahminism by holding such a signboard! 😖😱

@RajivMessage

Are @Twitter & @TwitterIndia promoting Atrocity Literature on Brahmins? Doesn’t such open ethnocentric hatred come under blatant human rights violation? @UN

Before the Jews were slaughtered there was a systematic campaign against Jews. Are Brahmins the next target for genocide?
Dear @MIB_India @HMOIndia @PMOIndia, please see the hateful tweet and the signboard being held by @Twitter and @TwitterIndia head/representatives. As a #Brahmin myself, their hate is very concerning. I’m genuinely worried about the safety of Brahmins and Brahmin children. @UNESCO
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The first contribution of Brahmins to the #Hindu National Pride was this #Brahmin ‘s reply to the 1st known foreign invaders, the Greeks(they called him ‘Dandamis’) on being threatened to be beheaded on his refusal to meet Alexander.
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“Alexander has’nt yet seen other bank of Vyas
If he successfully faces brave🇮🇳states beyond & yonder still
the powerful empire of Magadh,
yet remain alive,I shall consider.
He may behead me but can’t kill my soul”

Plutarch gives full text of this #Brahmin ‘s fearless reply
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Alexander realized, #Brahmins exerted powerful influences upon the governments of🇮🇳Republics,
that tongues of these fearless Brahmins were sharper than Khatriya swords.

Before beheading one he asked,
why he instigated a certain-ruler against him & came the reply👇🏻
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