Niyogi Brahmin

This article is about the Indian caste. For people named Niyogi, see Niyogi (disambiguation)

Niyogi Brahmin
ClassificationForward caste
ReligionsHinduism
LanguagesTelugu (primary)
Other Dravidian languages[1]
CountryPrimarily India

Niyogi Brahmin is a Telugu Brahmin subcaste[2] native to the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, but are spread throughout South India and Maharashtra.[3][4] The traditional occupations of the Niyogi Brahmins are settled cultivation and priesthood.[5] But majority of them took up various secular vocations including military activities and karanams. They were associated with administration, economics, literature, music composing, politics, scholarly, scientific, engineering, defense and warfare careers.[6][7]

  1. ^ William Joseph Jackson (1994). Tyāgarāja and the Renewal of Tradition: Translations and Reflections. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 226. ISBN 978-8120811461.
  2. ^ Vinod Kumar Rawat (22 October 2014). Knowledge-Power/Resistance: Beyond Bacon, Ambedkar and Foucault. Partridge Publishing. p. 160. ISBN 9781482839166. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
  3. ^ C. J. Fuller; Haripriya Narasimhan (11 November 2014). Tamil Brahmans: The Making of a Middle-Class Caste. University of Chicago Press. p. 62. ISBN 978-0226152882.
  4. ^ Kumar Suresh Singh (1998). India's Communities, Volume 6. Oxford University Press. p. 2644. ISBN 9780195633542. In Maharashtra, the Niyogi Brahman have eleven subgroups like Aruvela Niyogi and Kammelu Niyogi. They have migrated from Andhra Pradesh. In social practices and rituals they do not differ from their original stock in Andhra Pradesh.
  5. ^ Kumar Suresh Singh (1998). India's Communities, Volume 6. Oxford University Press. p. 2645. ISBN 9780195633542. The traditional occupations of the Niyogi Brahman of Andhra Pradesh are settled cultivation and priesthood. They were Patwaris also.
  6. ^ Sanatha Dharma, Religion, Gothra, Sages, Saints & Rishis of Vedic Era
  7. ^ Ancient India: A History of its Culture and Civilization, Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi, p. 166-170