Adi Gaur

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Adi Gaur Brahmins, generally known as Kurukshetra Gaur Brahmins, is a landholding sub class of Brahmins fall in the Panch Gaurs. Their original home is Kurukshetra country.Gaur Brahmins of East Punjab and UP i.e todays Punjab, Haryana and West UP were desrcibed as a warlike race in Tārīk̲h̲-i-Śēr Śāhī by ʻAbbās Khān Sarvānī.[1]

The Adi Gaurs practice agriculture and till the soil with their own hands and they are one of the agricultural caste but they do have good sanskrit speakers in them.[2] Tyagi Brahmins is the a sub class of Adi Gaur Brahmins. Adi Gaurs comes under the martial race. Adi Gaurs are addicted to agriculture and quite ignorant of the Brahminical prayers and religious rites they neither study shastras and neither perform priestly work.They are often considered the highest of the agricultural castes.[3][4][5] There are Muslims Gaurs who accepted Islam and known as Garha.[6]

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  1. ^ Sarvānī, ʻAbbās Khān (1974). Tārīk̲h̲-i-Śēr Śāhī. K. P. Jayaswal Research Institute.
  2. ^ Shukla, S. P. (1985). India's Freedom Struggle and the Role of Haryana. Criterion Publications. ISBN 978-0-8364-1794-4.
  3. ^ Toland, Judith D. (2017-07-28). Ethnicity and the State. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-29458-4.
  4. ^ Bhattacharya, Jogendra Nath (1896). Hindu Castes and Sects: An Exposition of the Origin of the Hindu Caste System and the Bearing of the Sects Towards Each Other and Towards Other Religious Systems. Thacker, Spink.
  5. ^ Arya, Satya Prakash (1975). A Sociological Study of Folklore: Projected Research in Kuru Region (Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Bulandshahar, and Bijnor Districts of Western Uttar Pradesh). Indian Publications.
  6. ^ Singh, Saru; Ohri, Ruchi; Singh, Kulvinder; Singh, Meena; Bansal, Pranav (2021-11-20). "Comparison of Different Ultrasound Parameters for Airway Assessment in Patients Undergoing Surgery under General Anaesthesia". Turkish Journal of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation. 49 (5): 394–399. doi:10.5152/tjar.2021.1370. PMID 35110041. S2CID 244472714.
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