Mahajan

Mahajan is an Indian surname and caste which belongs to the Bania Community. It signifies the profession of a moneylender, merchants, bankers and administrators.[1]

The word Mahajan generally is referred to a trader and the last name may be found in that caste.[2][3]

There is a branch of Deshastha Brahmins, a Hindu Brahmin subcaste, with the last name of Mahajan, which hails from the northern part of Karnataka, a state in India.

Notable people

Notable people with this surname include:

Amit Mahajan, Chemistry teacher
Poonam Mahajan, Indian Politician
Ashwani Mahajan, economist, National Co-Convener, Swadeshi Jagran Manch; Professor at PG DAV College
Harsh Mahajan, Indian politician
Mehr Chand Mahajan, former Chief Justice of India and former Prime Minister of Kashmir
Pramod Mahajan, an Indian politician (Maharashtra State)
Rahul Mahajan, an American blogger
Rahul Mahajan, Indian reality TV personality
Sumitra Mahajan, an Indian politician Who is the speaker of the 16th Lok Sabha
Vijay Mahajan, former Dean of the Indian School of Business, a Marketing professor at the McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin
Vikram Chand Mahajan, an Indian politician, Senior Advocate (Supreme Court of India)
Girish Mahajan, an Indian politician
Gulabrao Patil, an Indian politician

References

Ian Stone (25 July 2002). Canal Irrigation in British India: Perspectives on Technological Change in a Peasant Economy. Cambridge University Press. pp. 356–. ISBN 978-0-521-52663-0. mahajan : merchant , moneylender
Jonathan P. Parry, ed. (13 September 2013). Caste and Kinship in Kangra. Routledge. pp. 110–. ISBN 978-1-136-54585-6.
Bam Dev Sharda (24 August 2005). "Status allocation in middle India". In David Bills (ed.). The Shape of Social Inequality: Stratification and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective. Elsevier. pp. 229–. ISBN 978-0-08-045935-6.

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[Stone2002-1] Ian Stone (25 July 2002). Canal Irrigation in British India: Perspectives on Technological Change in a Peasant Economy. Cambridge University Press. pp. 356–. ISBN 978-0-521-52663-0. mahajan : merchant , moneylender

[Parry2013-2] Jonathan P. Parry, ed. (13 September 2013). Caste and Kinship in Kangra. Routledge. pp. 110–. ISBN 978-1-136-54585-6.

[Bills2005-3] Bam Dev Sharda (24 August 2005). "Status allocation in middle India". In David Bills (ed.). The Shape of Social Inequality: Stratification and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective. Elsevier. pp. 229–. ISBN 978-0-08-045935-6.