[radikal]

Vaishyas lead the list of indian billionaires, as per forbes magazine ranking.

"They are under 1% of India 's population. Yet, 26 of the 55 are baniyas!

India 's richest man is a Baniya (Lakshmi Mittal, world's sixth richest
with $31.1 billion),
India 's second richest man is a Baniya (Mukesh Ambani, $27 billion),
India 's third richest man is a Khoja (Azim Premji, $16.8 billion),
India 's fourth richest men are Baniyas (Shashi and Ravi Ruia, $15.8
billion),
India 's fifth richest person is a Baniya (Savitri Jindal, $13.2
billion),
India 's sixth richest man is a Baniya (Gautam Adani, $10 billion),
India 's 7th richest man is a Baniya (Kumar Mangalam Birla, $9.2
billion),
India 's eighth richest man is a Baniya (Anil Ambani, $8.8 billion),
India 's ninth richest man is a Baniya (Sunil Mittal, $8.3 billion).
India 's 10th richest man is a Parsi (Adi Godrej, world's 130th richest
with $7.3 billion).

Score: Baniyas 8, Rest of India 2."

[LottiFurmann]

Are Baniya's Indians?

Mr. Sarang what is your fascination with birth based groupings. Are you saying that these men would not have been rich, except for their birth in that Baniya class. Some how you make it look their birth to be vulgar.

Or are you chiding us non-baniyas that we can never be rich?
I thought I will not respond to you and your comments, but somehow your birth based division rile me. You fail to recognize individuals achievements.

Mr. Bill Gates, Mr. Slim, Mr. Walton, or Mr. Buffet were not born baniyas.

I understand some of these rich people are rich because of family wealth, but have increased the wealth by their intelligence and work.
You by posting comments of this nature show your need to somehow put down their wealth, or their intelligence.
Why do we need to post about division among PIO, on birth based caste system. Caste system has been used to divide us, or for political purpose. It is never used to unite us.

Just because politicians use it to get their vote bank, it is not justified to divide us.

[Ifroham4]

Self fulfilling prophecy?

[LottiFurmann]

vulgarity is in your mind; better study, understand, and reflect. Differentiation is not discrimination. If you want a shapeless, faceless blob, it is your privilege. Don't respond with verbose insults.

they are rich, self made and are from bania community. They would not have been rich if not not born in a bania community is an irrelevant question or observation. Your logic is perverted.

Whether they represent and observe values and traditions of their community is more relevant.

You can shout, 'i am not a brahmin', and 'i don't subscribe to brahminical values and practices', who cares!

In future, restrict your comments to the issue raised instead of addressing person oriented comments. You never learn, despite being told by so many in so many words.

Are Baniya's Indians?

Mr. Sarang what is your fascination with birth based groupings. Are you saying that these men would not have been rich, except for their birth in that Baniya class. Some how you make it look their birth to be vulgar.

Or are you chiding us non-baniyas that we can never be rich?
I thought I will not respond to you and your comments, but somehow your birth based division rile me. You fail to recognize individuals achievements.

Mr. Bill Gates, Mr. Slim, Mr. Walton, or Mr. Buffet were not born baniyas.

I understand some of these rich people are rich because of family wealth, but have increased the wealth by their intelligence and work.
You by posting comments of this nature show your need to somehow put down their wealth, or their intelligence.
Why do we need to post about division among PIO, on birth based caste system. Caste system has been used to divide us, or for political purpose. It is never used to unite us.

Just because politicians use it to get their vote bank, it is not justified to divide us.

[Fegasderty]

vulgarity is in your mind; better study, understand, and reflect. Differentiation is not discrimination. If you want a shapeless, faceless blob, it is your privilege. Don't respond with verbose insults.

they are rich, self made and are from bania community. They would not have been rich if not not born in a bania community is an irrelevant question or observation. Your logic is perverted.

Whether they represent and observe values and traditions of their community is more relevant.

You can shout, 'i am not a brahmin', and 'i don't subscribe to brahminical values and practices', who cares!

In future, restrict your comments to the issue raised instead of addressing person oriented comments. You never learn, despite being told by so many in so many words.

Your sense of being insulted is ridicules. You are the one trying to divide the community on some caste based divisions. The community has moved on from that. You could have quoted a statistics that is uplifting to all Indian of different ethnic, state, and religion. Instead of celebrating the diversity you seem to enjoy pitting one region against another, or one caste against another.

You must be another of those politicians, what else can I say.

You could have posted the same list and said The top 10 Indians, it would have been so nice, instead you had to brand them as Baniyas.

[Lillie_Steins]

@prasadji.
You never learn, do you? It will be wise to restrict your comments on the issues only in future. By the way gandhi was a baniya, and he was proud of his caste; he supported varnasrama.

This was the response in another forum:

"I think one needs to analyse the facts differently.

1. Why are they all Banias? or Vaishyas?

Simple, they are the business caste and have the family capital and the skills for it since times immemorial. They have had networks all over India.

They may come from Rajasthan and Gujarat (that is their mool sthana only is Marwar and vicinity) but they are settled all over India and in all the business capitals and have been so, in all times in history.

This has been the positive side of the varna vyavasthaa or the so called caste system, that it preserved
not only the family stock/capital in trade, it also helped the education of the trade through the connections.

Thousands of othe professions and skills were done the same way from Vedic chanting to medicine to archery and so on. Not that one varna did not cross over to other professions and created specialisations. It happened too, as the doing the family skill was the norm not a compulsion. So a Parashuram became a warrior, a Drona also an archer and a Vishwamitra became a sage.

IT was not a simple strand but a complex web. Hope this clairifies or does it further confuse?
svasti,
bharat gupt

[Raj_Copi_Jin]

Vaishyas lead the list of indian billionaires, as per forbes magazine ranking.

"They are under 1% of India 's population. Yet, 26 of the 55 are baniyas!

Score: Baniyas 8, Rest of India 2."

"Vyapare Vasathi Lakshmi" goes the saying. Goddess of wealth lives in business.
Baniyas are Vysyas doing business for generations. Khojas are Muslims who are also
businessmen can be classified as Kutchi- Baniyas. Even in South it is the small community
of traders and bankers Nagarathaar known as Nattukkottai Chettiars are rich people.

Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.

[brraverishhh]

If one really look at the results - these people who are in the variety of business always look for opportunities for their expansion. The fact that most of them happen to be from basis business community is quite irrelevant here. By expansion of their businesses they provide employment to millions of Indians - both directly and indirectly. May be in the initial stages, when Licence Raj was prevailing in the country some of these people might have obtained some permissions in questionable means. But now, inspite of majority family owned, these people are running their companies in a highly professional manner.

The way and the magnitude in which they think is really commendable. Each of them have built such a vast organziation in which they are really give good competition to some of MNCs.


Venkat

[9mm_fan]

If one really look at the results - these people who are in the variety of business always look for opportunities for their expansion. The fact that most of them happen to be from basis business community is quite irrelevant here. By expansion of their businesses they provide employment to millions of Indians - both directly and indirectly. May be in the initial stages, when Licence Raj was prevailing in the country some of these people might have obtained some permissions in questionable means. But now, inspite of majority family owned, these people are running their companies in a highly professional manner.

The way and the magnitude in which they think is really commendable. Each of them have built such a vast organziation in which they are really give good competition to some of MNCs.


Venkat

Mr. Venketji,
Very good observation. Indians have prospered all over the world. In the fertile environment of India they are doing excellent.

[Lillie_Steins]

Gadkari's younger son Sarang weds in low-key affair
Nagpur, Jun 24, 2012, (PTI)
BJP national president Nitin Gadkari's younger son Sarang today tied the nupital knot with his class mate Madhura at a wedding hall in Mahal area in eastern part of city amidst chanting of vedic mantras.

[tgs]

Talking of caste is not casteism and those who talk against casteism are not the saviours. Those who see casteism in every thing has perhaps had nighmarish experience of that. Now about the billionaires, see most of them are vysyas and except one or two, most of them are marwaris. Everybody struggles to do great but only a few become topical. Is there any answer why a Brahmin cannot do business or succeed in business? Why for that matter a Kshatriya, Sudra or a pariah? Are these people trying to perpetrate their casteism. May be, or not! The monologues in the Forum's space may stir people to break this monopoly and I think there could be no objection to that.