I have not read Stietencron’s thesis. So I do not know if he referred to the older account of the community available in Nagendra Nath Basu’s Vanger jātīya itihās ‘Caste history of Bengal’, Brāhmaṇakhaṇḍa (=Vol.1). Basu has other writings on them, in English too, but these require corrections and are not dependable.

Best

DB

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From: Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk@gmail.com>
To: indology@list.indology.info
Sent: Tuesday, 19 February 2013 3:05 AM
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Śākadvīpīya brahmans

I've discovered H. von Stietenkron's PhD, published in 1966, and Humbach's helpful review of it in the IIJ 12 (1969): 43-7.

Dominik Wujastyk

On 18 February 2013 22:11, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk@gmail.com> wrote:

Can anyone point me to some up-to-date information about Śākadvīpīya brahmans?  What did it mean to a twelfth to seventeenth-century author to identify himself as belonging to a Śākadvīpīya family?  Would such a family have retained cultural links to Central Asia and Eastern Iran, to Seistan?  I would have thought not.  But is there any scholarly exploration of this issue?

Many thanks,
Dominik Wujastyk

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