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Chakraborty

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|region = Bengal

|origin = Bengali Hindu

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Chakraborty (spelling variations include Chakraborti, Chakrabarti, Chakravarty, Chakrabartty and Chakrabarty) is a surname of Bengali Hindus and Assamese Hindus of India and Bangladesh, which literally means 'wheels rolling'; metaphorically it denotes a ruler whose chariot wheels roll everywhere without obstruction (čakra 'wheel' + vart- 'to roll').{{cite web|url=https://www.thebizdom.in/how-well-do-you-know-about-the-origins-of-some-indian-occupational-surnames/|title=How well do you know about the origins of some Indian Occupational Surnames?|date=22 February 2020|access-date=23 February 2022|publisher=TheBizdom}} The surname is mainly used by people of the Bengali Brahmin{{cite book |last1=Gupta |first1=Sankar Sen |title=Folklore of Bengal: A Projected Study |year=1976 |publisher=Indian Publications |page=16 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x0AiAAAAMAAJ&q=brahmin+surname+chakravarty |language=en|quote=It is said that when the five brahmins went to the court of Adisura, there were 700 families of brahmin residents in Bengal, who were called Saptasatis or Satsatis (meaning 700). These Saptasatis too were honoured by the rulers and often they received grants of villages. Gradually they became priests to the lower castes and thereby descended to the rank of degraded brahmins, even though they have boasted such surnames such as Chakravarty and Bhattacharya}}{{cite book |last1=Clark |first1=Gregory |title=The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility |date=25 August 2015 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-16837-1 |page=147 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p22YDwAAQBAJ&q=chakraborty+bengali+brahmin+kshatriya+surname |language=en |quote=This chapter examines social mobility in Bengal from 1860 to the present.. This group [Bengali Brahmins]: Bandopadhyaya/Banerjee, Bhattacharya/Bhattacharjee, Chakraborty/Chakravarty, Chattopadhyaya/Chatterjee, Gangopadhyaya/Ganguly, ...}}{{cite book |title=Folk-lore |year=1975 |publisher=Indian Publications |page=172 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IMvjAAAAMAAJ&q=bengal%20brahmin%20chakravarty |language=en|quote=A few Bengali Surnames that identify a caste – Surname Caste Identification Brahmin Bandyopadhyay (Banerjee), Mukhopadhyay (Mukherjee), Gangopadhyaya (Ganguli), Chattopadhyay (Chatterjee), Chakravarty, Kanjilal, Sanyal, Lahiri ...}} and Assamese Brahmin{{cite book |last1=Ghosh |first1=G. K. |last2=Ghosh |first2=Shukla |title=Brahmin Women |date=2003 |publisher=Firma KLM |isbn=978-81-7102-107-9 |page=28 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iyraAAAAMAAJ&q=chakraborty |quote=The Assamese Brahmins The Brahmins of Assam also claim that their ancestors migrated from either Gauda or Bengal and ... on whole the lower Assam group the adopt the surnames like Chakraborty, Bhattacharyaa...}}{{cite book |last1=Singh |first1=K. S. |title=People of India: Assam (2 pts.) |date=1992 |publisher=Anthropological Survey of India |isbn=978-81-7046-128-9 |page=168 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ofT90TF7pJcC&q=chakraborty+Assamese+Brahmin+surname|quote=The community is divided into two subgroups, Brahman and Kshat- triya. The Brahman enjoys a higher socio - religious position than the Kshattriya . The Brahman group uses surnames, such as, Chakraborty, Sharma,..}} communities in the states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam.

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