Are Brahmins from Aryans?

The Brahmins were Aryan invaders from the North and therefore brought their own language-Sanskrit-with them.

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Which surnames are Brahmins?

Mishra, Pandey, Bharadwaj, Deshmukh, Deshpande, Kulkarni, Desai, Patil, Jothi, Kaul, Trivedi, Chaturvedi, Agnihotri, Mukherjee, Chatterjee, Acharya, Goswami, Desai, Bhat, Rao, Hegde, Sharma, Shastri, Tiwari, Shukla, Namboothiri, Iyer, Iyengar and what not. Brahmins use their caste names as surnames with much pride. How did Brahmins come to India? These Brahmins had travelled from Kashmir and the banks of the Saraswat river, via Bengal, to the Konkan coast. Another migration happened when Brahmins were called to Madurai and Tanjore, from Maharashtra. This is how the Sanskrit cosmopolis spread across India during this period.

Can Iyer and Iyengar marry?

It may be largely acceptable for Iyer-Iyengar weddings to take place, but let me tell you something. I'm a living example of an urban-bred daughter of educated, once-employed Iyengar parents who has been struggling for more than seven years to get married to her Iyer boyfriend. Then, is iyengar a brahmin? Iyengars (also Ayyangars or Aiyengars) ([?j??????r]) are an ethnoreligious group of Tamil speaking Hindu Brahmins, whose members follow Sri Vaishnavism and the Visishtadvaita philosophy propounded by Ramanuja. Iyengars belong to the Pancha Dravida Brahmana sub-classification of Brahmins.

Keeping this in consideration, which is the highest caste in brahmins?

Brahman, also spelled Brahmin, Sanskrit Br?hma?a ("Possessor of Brahma"), highest ranking of the four varnas, or social classes, in Hindu India. Subsequently, why is jat so proud? Jats are basically shudras as per Varna system. The pride thing can be traced to the British rule in India. The British hired them in large numbers in army and classified them as a martial race. Since then they have lot of pride as a martial race and their land holdings and property take that pride further.

Correspondingly, why are jats so rich?

The community has been extra-rich due to being owners of land around Delhi, which is also one of the fertile region of India. The advent of modern education provided Jats a major share in all government services and business, strengthening the grip of the community in area surrounding Delhi and NCR.