Talk:Sundhi

message: — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2409:4064:4E1F:32AC:0:0:770A:7307 (talk) 19:10, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

message: I found this article while looking up some test/vandalism edits for an ISP user.  Multiple edits by such users had broken the wikification of the text and the lack of punctuation makes it very difficult to read. I reverted it back to the last legible version and updated a rotted link, but I'm not knowledgable on the castes of India.  It needs input and editing from an expert on the sociology of India. Blue Riband► 03:24, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  RfC - Expert needed 

message: Please re phase this is Mis leading 2405:201:A406:3834:61C2:AF2A:D27C:42A (talk) 13:06, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source. Thanks. Dr.Pinsky (talk) 14:53, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  It’s not included in SC of Bengal 

message: Hi 
Please remove the line that “ this caste included in scheduled caste of West Bengal” 
You are getting confused with sunri and soundik/sudi.
If the attachment which you have included of West Bengal talks about sunri not soundik our sudi. 2405:201:1007:A158:C03A:A61B:A335:BFE1 (talk) 10:17, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: I am sure ample WP:RS have been provided. Please read them, and come back if the content is misrepresenting them in any way. Voicing personal opinions will not get you anywhere. Also read WP:OR; WP:NPOV. Thanks. Dr.Pinsky (talk) 07:20, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Soundik does not belong to scheduled caste in West Bengal 

message: "Sunri" is a small and miniscule section within broad Shoundik Community, assigned SC status in West Bengal and present only in West Bengal, the reasons and factors behind is more of a local, political and socio-economic one in nature , rather than a historical one. It can't be generalised and get applied on all India basis across North to South. Again, Shoundik is not a caste , as is generally understood to be, but a Community comprising many castes and Sub-castes within its fold. The list of these sub-castes is very long. And would not be proper altogether to discuss here. Interested persons may search for appropriate references and sources. 2409:4064:4E1F:32AC:0:0:770A:7307 (talk) 19:29, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sunri SC Status In West Bengal - A Clarification 

message: Wrong info in point 3 2405:201:1007:A0B0:5527:3D57:9492:DDAE (talk) 07:36, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong info 

message: JockerEdit (talk) 13:27, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: According to this source, the Shunri adn Shoundika are same. If you have a recent source (preferably governement or news) which considers the caste as OBC in West Bengal rather than SC, please link it here. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 15:21, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 27 February 2022 

message: Request you to remove the term schedule caste and Dalit it’s very wiring info need sone one who know how to edit 
https://sundicaste.com/history/
https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/33939/1/11015672.pdf JockerEdit (talk) 16:33, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: https://sundicaste.com/history/ ← will not be helpful since it is from the community itself, failing WP:Independent policy. https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/33939/1/11015672.pdf may work, but it is difficult to navigate. Please tell me the page number where it is written that Sundhis is Bengal are OBC. Also give credentials of the writer. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 17:58, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correct details 

message: Sudhi is not SC 2405:201:1007:A026:B5CA:1A5B:D6B3:E3EE (talk) 14:55, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  It’s wrong info 

message: Sundhi is a prominent caste in Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Orissa. The word Sundhi is derived from the Sanskrit Shaundik, a spirit-seller. The caste has various genealogies of differing degrees of respectability, tracing their origin to cross unions between other castes born of Brāhmans, Kshatriyas, and Vaishyas. The following story is told of them in Madras (current day Chennai). In ancient times a certain Brāhman was famous for his magical attainments. The king of the country sent for him one day and asked him to cause the water in a tank to burn. The Brāhman saw no way of doing this, and returned homewards uneasy in his mind. On the way he met a distiller who asked him to explain what troubled him. When the Brāhman told his story the distiller promised to cause the water to burn on condition that the Brāhman gave him his daughter in marriage. This the Brāhman agreed to do, and the distiller, after surreptitiously pouring large quantities of liquor into the tank, set fire to it in the presence of the king. In accordance with the agreement he married the daughter of the Brāhman and the pair became the ancestors of the Sundi caste. In confirmation of the story it is alleged that up to the present day the women of the caste maintain the recollection of their Brāhman ancestors by refusing to eat fowls or the remains of their husbands’ meals. Nor will they take food from the hands of any other caste.
In modern day, many are leading "distillers of alcohol" and hold big business houses. Now they are also growing in number in the software industry, service industry and can be found serving the government as well.
This caste is also found in the northeast districts of Andhra Pradesh: Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, and Visakhapatnam. Sundhi is also called Sondi in Andhra Pradesh, Baniya & Sudi in rest parts of India.. They are also located in some parts of West Bengal and other parts of India. The caste is an important one in Bengal, numbering more than six lakhs of persons and being found in western Bengal and Bihār as well as in Orissa. Seriouslyaryan1008 (talk) 20:47, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Agreed with the statement that sundi is a merchant class that was primarily connected with their profession that was occupation of alcoholic beverages and wines and the comes under vaishya Varna not in dalit