The Jujhautiya Brahmin are an endogamous

Endogamy

Endogamy is the practice of marrying within a specific ethnic group, class, or social group, rejecting others on such basis as being unsuitable for marriage or other close personal relationships. A Greek Orthodox Christian endogamist, for example, would require that a marriage be only with another...

 Brahmin

Brahmin

Brahmin Brahman, Brahma and Brahmin.Brahman, Brahmin and Brahma have different meanings. Brahman refers to the Supreme Self...

 community found the Chambal

Chambal

Chambal may refer to:* Chambal Jatt* Chambal Division* Chambal River...

 and Yamuna

Yamuna

The Yamuna is the largest tributary river of the Ganges in northern India...

 river valleys in the north, and the Narbada valley in the south. Chhatarpur District

Chhatarpur District

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 in Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh

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 is the centra and cultural focus of this community. They are a sub-group of the Kanyakubja Brahmins. They are one of the more important communities in Bundelkhand

Bundelkhand

Bundelkhand anciently known as Chedi Kingdom is a geographic region of central India...

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According to the community's traditions, they acquired the name Jujhautiya, when a group of Kanyakubja Brahmins performed a yajna for Jujhar Singh, the Bundela

Bundela

The Bundelas are a Rajput clan of Chattari lineage who ruled several states in central India, in Bundelkhand region from the 16th century.The Bundelas are the most prominent Rajputs hailing from Central India...

 Rajah. Other traditions point to the fact that Bundelkhand

Bundelkhand

Bundelkhand anciently known as Chedi Kingdom is a geographic region of central India...

 was known as Jujhauti, and Jujhautia simply means the Brahmin

Brahmin

Brahmin Brahman, Brahma and Brahmin.Brahman, Brahmin and Brahma have different meanings. Brahman refers to the Supreme Self...

s of Jujhauti in Sanskrit

Sanskrit

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. In Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh

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, they are found mainly in the districts Hamirpur

Hamirpur District, Uttar Pradesh

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 and Banda

Banda District

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The practice endogamy and clan exogamy

Exogamy

Exogamy is a social arrangement where marriage is allowed only outside of a social group. The social groups define the scope and extent of exogamy, and the rules and enforcement mechanisms that ensure its continuity. In social studies, exogamy is viewed as a combination of two related aspects:...

, like most Brahmin

Brahmin

Brahmin Brahman, Brahma and Brahmin.Brahman, Brahmin and Brahma have different meanings. Brahman refers to the Supreme Self...

 caste

Caste

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s. Their clans are known as pata, are placed into two groupings, Teen Ghars, consisting of the Tiwari, Chanke and Pande, and the Tera Ghar consisting of the Rawat, Richhariya, Misra, Pathak, Patairiya, Bhandairiya, Vajpai, Chaube, Nayak, Arajariya, Sullera, Dikhsit and the Tiwari of Aijhi.

The Jujhautiya were at one time substantial landowners, and zamindar

Zamindar

A Zamindar or zemindar , was an aristocrat, typically hereditary, who held enormous tracts of land and ruled over and taxed the bhikaaris who lived on batavaslam. Over time, they took princely and royal titles such as Maharaja , Raja , Nawab , and Mirza , Chowdhury , among others...

s of the estates of Gawrihar, Paldes, Navagaon, Bhesaunda, and Chaubepur Pahra.