Re: Where does Bengali people fit in racially and Among the Indians


me wrote:
arya.raychaudhuri@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
me wrote:
Which caste the Chowdury implies?

It is not a caste surname, it is some sort of a title that land-owning
folks
used to get from the king or the nawab.

BTW, in the old days, i.e, say before 2oth century, who get to own
lands? Did it have anything to do with their caste?

Powerful people used to own lands. Then they used to get the special
titles.
Once you get those titles you don't need to follow the caste
endogamies.
You marry a beautiful woman whatever her caste. That's why they
retained
the retained the titles, but dropped the caste surnames.

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