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Bahun | |
|---|---|
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Nepal | 3,292,373 (11.2% of Nepal's population) (2021)[1] |
| Languages | |
| Nepali (Khas-Kura) | |
| Religion | |
| Hinduism 99.56% (2011), Christianity 0.31% (2011)[2] | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Chhetri, Thakuri and other Khas people | |
Bahun (Nepali: बाहुन), also known as Hill Brahmins,[3] are a Brahmin varna among the Khas of Nepal. They are a sub-caste of the Kanyakubja Brahmin[4][5][6] while their origins are from Kannauj[7] and the Himalayan belt of South Asia. According to the 2011 Nepal census, Bahun is the second most populous group after Chhetri.[8]
According to 1854 Muluki Ain, the first Nepalese civil code, Bahuns were regarded as caste among sacred thread bearers (Tagadhari) and twice-born Hindus.[9]
- ^ National Statistics Office (2021). National Population and Housing Census 2021, Caste/Ethnicity Report. Government of Nepal (Report).
- ^ Central Bureau of Statistics (2014). Population monograph of Nepal (PDF) (Report). Vol. II. Government of Nepal.
- ^ Oberst, Robert (27 April 2018). Government and Politics in South Asia, Student Economy Edition. Routledge. p. 284. ISBN 978-0-429-97340-6.
- ^ Declan Quigley, David Gellner (2017). Contested Hierarchies: A Collaborative Ethnography of Caste Among the Newars of Kathmandu. edited by David Gellner & Declan Quigley. Macmillan and Company limited. p. 199.
- ^ Chaturvedi, Shyam lal (1945). In Fraternity with Nepal, An Account of the Activities Under the Auspices of the Wider Life Movement for the Furtherance and Consolidation of the Indo-Nepalese Cultural Fellowship. p. 65.
- ^ Hachhethu, Krishna (2023). Nation-Building and Federalism in Nepal. Oxford University Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-19-887291-7.
- ^ Hachhethu, Krishna (2023). Nation-Building and Federalism in Nepal. Oxford University Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-19-887291-7.
- ^ "Nepal Census 2011" (PDF).
- ^ Sherchan 2001, p. 14.