Mahajan

Mahajan is an Indian surname and caste that belongs to the Hindu Vaishya Baniya community of Punjab. It signifies the profession of a merchants, bankers, and moneylenders.^[1]

The word mahajan generally refers to a rich businessman, and the last name may be found in that caste.^[2][3]

Mahajans of the Deccan (i.e. Maharashtra, Telangana, and north Karnataka) are mainly Deshastha Brahmin, while mahajans of North India are mainly Bania, a mercantile community.

Notable people with this surname include:

• Poonam Mahajan, Indian politician
• Ashwani Mahajan, Indian 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, Indian politician (Maharashtra State)
• Neha Mahajan, Indian Actress and Model
• Rahul Mahajan, American blogger
• Rahul Mahajan, Indian reality TV personality
• Sumitra Mahajan, Indian politician, 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, Indian politician, Senior Advocate (Supreme Court of India)
• Girish Mahajan, Indian politician

References

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