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Line 1: {{Short description\|none}} '''Kushwaha''' (alternatively spelt as '''Kushwah''')<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/bjp-bets-big-on-non-yadav-obcs-in-up-assembly-polls/articleshow/56767069.cms\|title=BJP bets big on non-Yadav OBCs in UP Assembly polls\|website=Economic Times\|access-date=27 June 2023}}</ref> is a surname used by people ~~of [[Koeri]] [[caste]]~~ in Bihar and [[Uttar Pradesh]].<ref name="ht">{{cite news \|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/three-castes-included-in-backward-classes-list/article1-1147408.aspx \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140415174249/http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/three-castes-included-in-backward-classes-list/article1-1147408.aspx \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=15 April 2014 \|work=Hindustan Times \|title=Three castes included in backward classes list \|date=5 November 2013 \|access-date=14 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/kushwahas-body-to-plant-saplings-on-ashokas-birth-anniversary/articleshow/51816852.cms\|title=Kushwahas' body to plant saplings on Ashoka's birth anniversary\|website=Times of India\|access-date=26 February 2023}}</ref> The [[Kushwaha]]s are also known as [[Maurya (surname)\|Maurya]], [[Shakya (surname)\|Shakya]], [[Saini]] in various parts of north India.<ref name="ht"/><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/politics/keshav-prasad-maurya-the-making-of-bjp-s-new-obc-face-in-uttar-pradesh-122012301087_1.html\|title=Keshav Prasad Maurya: The making of BJP's new OBC face in Uttar Pradesh\|website=Business Standard\|accessdate=26 February 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/uttar-pradesh-elections-swami-prasad-maurya-says-no-intention-to-go-back-to-bjp-court-issues-arrest-warrant/articleshow/88859005.cms\|title=Uttar Pradesh elections: Swami Prasad Maurya says no intention to go back to BJP; court issues arrest warrant\|website=Times of India\|access-date=26 February 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/amit-shahs-choice-of-up-bjp-chief-to-dampen-nitish-kumars-pitch/articleshow/51771360.cms\|title=Amit Shah's choice of UP BJP chief to dampen Nitish Kumar's pitch\|website=Economic Times\|access-date=26 February 2023}}</ref> As per one opinion, the Kushwaha surname is also common among members of [[Kachhi (caste)\|Kachhi]] caste, who later merged with the [[Koeri]]s to become a single homogeneous community.<ref>{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v3d2EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA27 \|title=Opposition in a Dominant Party System A Study of the Jan Sangh, the Praja Socialist Party, and the Socialist Party in Uttar Pradesh India\|author=Angela S. Burger\|publisher=[[University of California Press]]\|year=2022\|isbn=978-0520365568}}</ref> They are a super dominant community in the state of [[Bihar]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/emperor-ashoka-caught-in-caste-row/articleshow/47363514.cms\|title=Emperor Ashoka caught in caste row\|website=Times of India\|accessdate=15 April 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/thesundaystandard/2015/sep/27/caste-gets-ticket-to-the-big-battleground-821108.html\|website=new indian express\|title=Caste Gets Ticket to the Big Battleground\|access-date=15 April 2023}}</ref> ~~==Origin==~~ By the early 1900, due to significant knowledge of agricultural practices, the agricultural communities like [[Koeri]], Kachhi and Murao in the [[Indo-Gangetic Plain\|Gangetic Plain]] had amassed rural wealth and prosperity like the members of [[Kurmi]] and [[Yadav]] caste. This led them to lay claim on [[Kshatriya]] status. According to [[Herbert Hope Risley]] and [[William Wilson Hunter]], these communities earlier had belief in [[Shaktism\|Shakta]] and [[Shaivism\|Shaiva faith]], but the general claim on Kshatriya status made them link themselves to [[Solar Dynasty]], via [[Kusha (Ramayana)\|Kusha]], one of the son of [[Lord Rama]]. Thus the Surname "Kushwaha" was adopted to justify the newly gained wealth and prosperity.<ref>{{cite web\|first=Pinch\|last=William R.\|title= Peasants and Monks in British India\|publisher= Berkeley: [[University of California Press]]\|year=1996\|url=http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft22900465/}}</ref> This trend became more visible with the passing of time and by 1990s these communities had gained education, more access to non farm jobs and acquired political power to become rising ''[[Kulak]]s'' in many of the north Indian states. They displaced [[Forward Caste\|upper castes]] from power in political sphere, in coalition with members of similar agricultural castes and started calling themselves as ''Kushwaha Kshatriya'', a phenomenon described as ''[[Sanskritisation]]''.<ref name=TF>{{cite book\|title=Dalits, Subalternity and Social Change in India\|year=2018\|editor1 = Ajit K. Pandey\|editor2=Ashok K. Pankaj\|place=United Kingdom\|publisher=Taylor & Francis\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dHd0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT21 \|pages=21–23\|isbn=9780429785184 }}</ref><ref name="HOA">{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SNw5zVN1V0oC&pg=PA436\|page=436\|editor1= V.S. Upadhyay\|editor2= G. Pandey\|year=1993\|title=History of Anthropological Thought\|place=India\|publisher=Concept Publishing Company}}</ref> ==Notable people== Notable people using Kushwaha as their surname, middle name or first name~~, who may or may not be associated with caste/clan~~ are: * [[Abhay Kushwaha]], former Member of Bihar Legislative Assembly and President of Youth wing of [[Janata Dal (United)]]. [[Arun Singh Kushwaha]], Member of Bihar Legislative Assembly from [[Karakat Assembly constituency]], leader of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation]]. Line 97 ⟶ 93: [[Vyas Deo Prasad\|Vyas Deo Prasad Kushwaha]], former minister in Government of Bihar, former Member of Bihar Legislative Assembly from [[Siwan Assembly constituency]]. [[Vijay Lakshmi Kushwaha]], member of [[Indian Parliament]], [[Lok Sabha]] from [[Siwan Lok Sabha constituency]]. ~~===Bureaucrats===~~ [[Chandan Kushwaha]], former city SP Patna, served as Superintendent of Police Rohtas and Banka, Commandant of Home Guards (Bihar). *[[Pramod Kumar Kushwaha]], Additional Commissioner of [[Delhi Police]], served as Deputy Commissioner of Delhi Police's Special Cell.

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