Whose ancestors came from where

Pick a state, then a community whose ancestors came from its districts. The map shows the community’s native districts; the panel shows what the bundle knows so far.

1 · State

Region

2 · Community

6 communities · counts are surname rows

3 · Native districts

real polygons · simplified

Bardhaman · Hooghly · Howrah · Kolkata · Nadia · Purulia highlighted for Bengali Brahmin.

4 · Community bundle

Bengali Brahmin · West Bengal leg

community_id bengali-brahmin · bucket RLC-BEN-01

Origin

Kulin/Rarhi Brahmin ritual package; stri-achar thread; Durga Puja household emphasis; distinctive Upanayana (Paita) timing; Deccan/Bengal/Odia/Pahari regional package

Observed note, shared across 24 of 24 research rows — unreviewed, not a published origin narrative.

How they celebrate

Bengali Brahmin on the wiki: Holi · Navaratri / Durga Puja · Vasant Panchami · Annaprashana · Upanayana
Bengali on the wiki: Makar Sankranti

Surnames & districts

24 surnames recorded. Native districts are highlighted on the map.

Banerjee high
Bhattacharya high
Chatterjee high
Mukherjee high

Bucket

Bengali Hindu (RLC-BEN-01) — includes such as Bengali Brahmin (Rarhi/Barendra/Vaidic); Bengali Kayastha; Bengali Baidya. Examples, not members: a community is never assigned from this list.

Naming

naming intake in progress — birth and marriage conventions are recorded per community as research lands; none are published yet.

Sources & corrections

Every claim above carries a primary source and an observed band. Know better? Correct this community’s record → Your surname and district picks travel with the suggestion.

508 research rows await district mapping and are not shown above.