Bahun
Bahun (Bahasa Nepal: बाहुन), juga dikenali sebagai Brahmin Bukit,[3] adalah satu varna Brahmin di kalangan Khas di Nepal. Mereka adalah subkasta Kanyakubja Brahmin[4][5][6] manakala asal usul mereka adalah dari Kannauj[7] dan kawasan pergunungan Himalaya di Asia Selatan. Menurut banci Nepal 2011, Bahun adalah kumpulan kedua paling ramai selepas Chhetri.[8]
Bahun | |
|---|---|
| Kawasan ramai penduduk | |
 Nepal | 3,292,373 (11.2% daripada populasi Nepal) (2021)[1] |
| Bahasa | |
| Nepali (Khas-Kura) | |
| Agama | |
| Hinduisme 99.56% (2011), Kristian 0.31% (2011)[2] | |
| Kumpulan etnik berkaitan | |
| Chhetri, Thakuri dan lain-lain Khas | |
Menurut 1854 Muluki Ain, kod sivil Nepal pertama, Bahuns dianggap sebagai kasta di kalangan pemakai benang suci (Tagadhari) dan dua kali lahir Hindu.[9]
Rujukan
sunting- ^ National Statistics Office (2021). National Population and Housing Census 2021, Caste/Ethnicity Report. Government of Nepal (Laporan).
- ^ Central Bureau of Statistics (2014). Population monograph of Nepal (PDF) (Laporan). II. Government of Nepal.
- ^ Oberst, Robert (27 April 2018). Government and Politics in South Asia, Student Economy Edition. Routledge. m/s. 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 (dalam bahasa Inggeris). Macmillan and Company limited. m/s. 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 (dalam bahasa Inggeris). m/s. 65.
- ^ Hachhethu, Krishna (2023). Nation-Building and Federalism in Nepal (dalam bahasa Inggeris). m/s. 40.
- ^ Hachhethu, Krishna (2023). Nation-Building and Federalism in Nepal (dalam bahasa Inggeris). m/s. 40.
- ^ "Nepal Census 2011" (PDF).
- ^ Sherchan 2001, m/s. 14.