Sadgop

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Sadgop and Gop
Regions with significant populations
Burdwan, Hooghly, Bankura, Midnapore, Murshidabad, 24 Parganas, Nadia
Languages
Bengali
Religion
Hinduism

Sadgop (

Burdwan and Midnapore districts. Karnagarh, Narajole,[5] Narayangarh and Balarampur in Midnapore and several other zamindari estates in Burdwan, Hooghly, Birbhum belonged to them.[6][7] As of late nineteenth century they were one of the fourteen castes belonging to 'Nabasakh' group.[8][9]

Origin

Etymology

The Sadgop name is derived from two Sanskrit word Sad and Gope, which means clean or good Gopes or milkmen.[10]

Origin

The Sadgops are an offshoot of the pastoral Gopa caste who broke away from the main caste before the middle of the sixteenth century. Their switch to agriculture was only 'the starting point of rise to eminence'. Through extending their activities to trade, they established control over the land they had put under the plough. Thus, leaders from the group acquired political power at the local level. Later on the group also ventured into trade and worked as officials of the state and the big Zamindars. Members of the new group also made achievements in the fields of religion, and from dissident Gop families came popular saints like Syamananda and the founder of the influential Kartabhaja sect, Aulchand. In the process, they changed their jati affiliation by adding sad (sat, 'clean') to their name, thus becoming Sadgops.[11][12][13][14][15]

The Sadgops believe they have descended from Lord Krishna.[16]

History

Varna

Sadgops have generally been considered as clean shudras (sat-shudras) in the caste structure of Bengal.[17][18] Like south India social groups of east India usually divided in two grades - Brahmins and Shudras.[19]

Sanskritisation

In the 1910s, Sadgops along with

Gangetic plain who were associated with a combination of cultivation, cattle-herding, and dairy farming.[20]

Present circumstances

The Sadgop consist of a number of sub-divisions. They are an endogamous group and practice gotra exogamy. The Sadgop are mainly a landholding community, but many Sadgop have settled in Kolkata and other cities of West Bengal. Their own community organization is named as Bangiya Sadgop Samiti.[2]

Sadgops and Gops(Goala) both were included in the list of 177 "backward classes" for the state of West Bengal by

General caste.[21][22]

Notable people

See also

References

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  2. ^ a b People of India Bihar Volume XVI Part Two edited by S Gopal & Hetukar Jha pages 827 to 831 Seagull Books
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  8. ^ Sanyal, Hitesranjan (1981). Social Mobility in Bengal. Papyrus. p. 115.
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  11. ^ Sanyal, Hitesranjan (1981). Social Mobility in Bengal. Papyrus.
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  13. ^ Commissioner, India Census (1902). Census of India, 1911. Superintendent Government Prtg.
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  18. ^ Mitra, A. (1953). The Tribes and Castes of West Bengal (Report). Census 1951. Land and Land Revenue Department, Government of West Bengal. p. 21.
  19. ^ SIRCAR, D. C. (1959). STUDIES IN THE SOCIETY AND ADMINISTRATION OF ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL INDIA VOL. 1. FIRMA K. L. MUKHOPADHYAY, CALCUTTA. p. 115.
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