ABOUT KAYASTHA FAMILY TREE (कायस्थ) Kayastha or Kayasth (Hindu : कायस्थ) : कायस्थ समुदाय की उत्पत्ति एक दिव्य देवता चित्रगुप्त से मानी जाती है, जिन्हें यह समुदाय अपना पूर्वज मानकर पूजता है। ऐतिहासिक रूप से, कायस्थ उत्तर-मध्य और पूर्वी भारत में पाए जाते हैं। कायस्थ समुदाय की उत्पत्ति और स्थिति: पौराणिक और ऐतिहासिक उत्पत्ति: कायस्थों की उत्पत्ति और हिंदू जाति व्यवस्था में उनकी स्थिति विवादित विषय हैं। चित्रगुप्त की वंश परंपरा: पौराणिक कथाओं के अनुसार, चित्रगुप्त ने दो पत्नियों (नंदिनी और शोभावती) से विवाह किया और उनके 12 पुत्र हुए। नंदिनी से चार पुत्र हुए। शोभावती से आठ पुत्र हुए। इन 12 पुत्रों ने कायस्थ समुदाय की 12 मुख्य शाखाओं की शुरुआत की। कायस्थ उपनाम: कायस्थ समुदाय के लोगों की पहचान उनके उपनाम (surname) से की जा सकती है, जो उनकी शाखा या गोत्र से जुड़ी होती है।

गोत्र का महत्व: "गोत्र" का मतलब होता है एक ऐसे पुरुष पूर्वज की वंशजों की पीढ़ी, जो एक अनवरत पुरुष-रेखा से संबंधित हों। कायस्थ समुदाय विभिन्न राज्यों में फैला हुआ है, और उनकी पहचान के लिए सबसे सरल तरीका उनके उपनाम हैं। भारत के विभिन्न राज्यों में कायस्थ: कायस्थ समुदाय पूरे भारत में अलग-अलग राज्यों में फैला हुआ है। उनकी सांस्कृतिक पहचान और परंपराएं राज्य और क्षेत्र के अनुसार थोड़ी भिन्न हो सकती हैं, लेकिन उनकी मूल पहचान उनके उपनाम और चित्रगुप्त से जुड़ी परंपराओं में निहित है। Kayastha Surnames The term Gotra broadly refers to people who are descendants in an unbroken male line from a common male ancestor. The Kayastha Community in India is spread thin into various states. The easiest identification is the last (surname) name. North India (UP, Delhi) Srivastava, Mathur, Saxena, Bhatnagar, Nigam, Asthana, Kulshreshtha, Gaur, Ambastha, Karna, Suradhwaja, Balmiki. (Last two are rarely found) Bengal: Sen, Kar, Das, Palit, Saha, Dutt/Dutta, Bose, Ghosh, Pal, Dey. Ray, Sarkar, Chudhry, Nag, Som, Mullick, Majumdar, Munshi, Roy, Chandra, Guha, Vaidya, Nandy, Nandan, Sinha, Rakshit, Ankur, Nath, Biswas, Dhar, Bhadra, Sarbhan, Varman, Bhava, Mitra, Gupta, Kundu, Bhadradhar, Vishwasu, Dev, Adhikari, Patwari. Orissa:Patnaik, Kanungo, Das, Bihiyar, Mohanti, Naidu, Pataskar. Assam:Barva, Chakravarty, Baid, Mahanti. Madhya Pradesh:Srivastava(also Khare), Saxena, Gaur, Asthana, Khare. Gujarat:Chandraseni Kayastha Prabhu, Mehta, Vallabhji, Balmiki, Surajdhwaj, Vallabhi. South India:Mudaliar, Naidu, Pillai, Reddy, Bal, Karnik, Raman, Rao, Menon, Nair, Nayyar, Raju. Goa, Daman, Diu:Davane, Keelen, Pathare. Sindh Province:Alim, Fazil, Qamil, Advani. Some ALS commonly used by Saxena – Johry, Hajela, Adholia, Raizada, Kodesia, Kanungo, Bartariya, Bisaria, Pradhan, Kamthania, Darbari, Rawat, Saharia, Dalela, Sonreksha, Kamojia, Agochia, Sinha, Moria, Johri ALS commonly used by Mathurs are – Saharia, Kataria, Kakrania, Dewariya, Dilwariya, Tawakaley, Rajauria, Nag, Galgotia, Sarwaria, Andley(Endlay), Ranoria. Bhatnagar’s main ALS are – Dasania, Bhatania, Kuchania, Gujaria, Bahliwal, Mahiwal, Sambhalwed, Barsania, Kanmaujia, etc (Total ALS are 84). Nigams have the following prominent ALS – Kanungo, Akbarpur, Akbarabadi, Kanungo ghatampuri, Chaudhry, Phaphund, Kanungo badha, Kanungo jaipur, Munshi ghatampuri, etc. Shrivastavas common ALS are– Verma, Sinha, Aghori, Paday, Pandia, Raizada, Kanungo, Jagdhari, Pradhan, Beohar, Raja Surajpura, Tandwa, Vaidya, Barwaria, Choudhary, Raja Sandeela, Deogaon. It may be seen that some ALS are been usaed b more than sub-sects of Kayasthas- Verma, Sinha, Kanungo, Raizada, Choudhary. Now a days Sinhas or Vermas are found in other castes also. Bihar: Srivastava, Ambashtha, Karna, Mathur, Bhatnagar. Other surnames/ALS used are – Sinha, Pandeya, Pandia, Kanth, Das, Sahay, Samaiyar Gayasen, Verma etc. Punjab:Govil, Lahiri, Hajela, Raizada, Vidyarthi, Choudhary, Johari, Rawat, Bisaria, Sinha, Nagpal, Gotriy Kayastha, Kashyap, Bakshi, Dutta. Rajasthan:Gaur, Mathur, Pacholi, Srivastava Guttu, Nandan, Sarbhan, Phuttu, Mavekadanvas, Sambhare, Bhatnagar, Shastri, Prasad. Tamilnadu:Tamil Canara, Kayastha, Naydu, Pilley, Menon. Andhra Pradesh:Telugu Kayasha, Naidu (Note: In Hyderabad, Kayasthas are in abundance and they are Mathurs, Srivastava, Nigams, Saxenas, etc as in North India. They are all Urdu speaking) Maharashtra:Chandra Seniya Kayastha Prabhu(CKP) surnames used are – Thackeray, Pathare, Pathekar, Karkhanis, Pharnis, Polanis, Vanis, Hazirnarsis, Mokasi, Chitnavis, Kotnis, Chitre, Gupte, Mathrey, Deshpande, Karore, Donde, Tamhane, Dighe, Sule, Raje, Sangle, Mohite, Tungare, Kulkarni, Shreedh, Pradhan, Jaywant, Wamanraje, Pharnase, Apte, Khyadya, Gadkari, Trivakraje, Adhikari, Samarth, Dalvi, Deshmukh, Chowil, Nadkar, Dawalkar, Sowankar, Kulawkar, Otarkar, Kharulkar, Kivalkar, Medhekar, Khadelkar, etc. This is a list of noteworthy people of the Kayastha caste of India. Spirituality Swami Vivekananda Sri Aurobindo Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Paramhansa Yogananda Prabhupada Nirmala Srivastava Statesmen Dr. Rajendra Prasad- The first President of India. Netajee Subhash Chandra Bose Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan Sri Lal Bahadur Shastri Politics Jyoti Basu Yashwant Sinha Biju Patnaik Shiv Charan Mathur Naveen Patnaik Harish Chandra Mathur Ravi Shankar Prasad Acharya D P Ghosh Bal Thackeray Raj Thackeray Uddhav Thackeray HH Zamindaar Babu Trilok Nath Ashutosh Shrivastav Abhishek Srivastava Nirmal Kanti Samaddar Science & technology Dr. Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Dr. Prabhu Lal Bhatnagar Dr. Jagadis Chandra Dr. Satyendra Nath Dr. Atul Kumar Saxena* Scientist, invented Antiosteoporosis Drug candidate and OPPI Award. Vinod Dham Amar Bose Sisir Kumar Mitra Mriganka Sur Dr.Makund Bihari Lal Yatharth Saxena youngest innovator of India ,got 1st award by Dr. APJ ABDUL KALAM Aniket Kumar Ashish Nigam Literature Munshi Premchand Mahadevi Varma Dr. Vrindavan Lal Verma Harivansh Rai Bachchan Bhagwati Charan Verma Nirmal Verma Dharmavir Bharati Bimal Mitra Premendra Mitra Jibananda Das Buddhadeva Bose Firaq Gorakhpuri Nirad Chaudhuri Amitav Ghosh Kamleshwar Sharveshwar Dayal Saxena K. P. Saxena Jaishankar Prasad Gopaldas Neeraj shubham sharan Dr. Kunwar Bechain (Kunwar Bahadur Saxena) Kumar Ambuj (Purushottam Saxena) Art and architecture Nandlal Bose Jamini Roy Somenath Hore Ambarish Srivastava Vinay Srivastava, Facade Engineering Paresh Maity Films, television and music Amitabh Bachchan Aakash Srivastava Abhishek Bachchan Aadesh Srivastav Aditya Pancholi Anil Biswas Gautam Ghose Deepti Bhatnagar Arundhati Roy Neetu Chandra Madhur Jaffrey Motilal Mukesh Neil Nitin Mukesh Shriya Saran Nandita Das Nutan Raju Srivastava Sourav Prasad Rhona Mitra Salil Chowdhury Shekhar Suman Sombhu Mitra Sonu Nigam Tanuja Utpal Dutt Shatrughan Sinha Chitragupt Anand-Milind Sharat Saxena Rahul Bose Bipasha Basu Koena Mitra Deepti Bhatnagar Anjan Srivastav Sonakshi Sinha Chitragupta Aishwarya Roy Sushmita Sen guddu sharan Historians Sir Jadunath Sarkar Banarsi Prasad Saxena Ashirwadi Lal Srivastava Sports Gopal Bose Shib Sunder Das Dipu Ghosh Raman Ghosh Subroto Guha Ramesh Saxena Freedom fighters Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Bipin Chandra Pal Subhash Chandra Bose Khudiram Bose Rash Behari Bose Har Dayal Barin Ghosh Journalists Tushar Kanti Ghosh Chandan Mitra Sagarika Ghose Harish Khare Deepak Parvatiyar Rakesh Bhatnagar Administration Basanta Kumar De, Commercial Traffic Manager of the B.N.R. Sir Sarat Kumar Ghosh, I.C.S., First Indian Chief Justice of Rajasthan Shubhra Saxena IAS 2008 Topper First IIT Roorkee student as the IAS topper S. K. Sinha (Lt.Gen (retd) Governor of Kashmir and Ex Governor of Assam) Shyam Saran (1970; IFS) Girish Chandra Saxena (IPS (Retd) and Ex Governor of Kashmir) Anami Narayan Roy (IPS & Ex-Commissioner of Police Mumbai) Anand Kumar (IPS & Ex-DG MP) Sudeep Arun Kumar Lord S.P Sinha (First Lord in UK House of Lords) (Source : http://wikipedia.org Wikimedia Foundation, Inc )