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Nayak (caste)

The Nayak are a Hindu caste; also some Nayak are Punjabi found in India and Pakistan. Mainly Nayak follows Hindu.[1] According to Vinay Krishin Gidwani, the Nayaks claim that they were, historically, Brahmins.[2]

  1. ^ Hansen, Kathryn (2013) [First published 2011]. "Radheshyam Kathavachak, My Theatre Days". Stages of Life: Indian Theatre Autobiographies (illustrated, reprint ed.). Anthem Press. pp. 102–169. ISBN 978-1783080687. OCLC 855190685.
  2. ^ Gidwani, Vinay Krishin (1996). Fluid Dynamics: An Essay on Canal Irrigation and the Processses of Agrarian Change in Matar Taluka (Gujarat). India (Ph.D.). University of California, Berkeley. p. xii. OCLC 41175219. nayak a Scheduled Caste, especially patronized by patels, claim to have been brahmins historically

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