Bengali Brahmin

Bengali Brahmins
A Bengali Brahmin priest
ReligionsHinduism
LanguagesBengali
Populated statesWest Bengal, Assam, Tripura
Related groupsMaithil Brahmin, Utkala Brahmin, Kanyakubja Brahmin

Bengali Brahmins are the community of Hindu Brahmins, who traditionally reside in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, comprising the Indian state of West Bengal and the country of Bangladesh.

The Bengali Brahmins, along with Baidyas and Kayasthas, are regarded among the three traditional higher castes of Bengal. In the colonial era the Bhadraloks of Bengal were primarily, not exclusively, drawn from these three castes.

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