Mathur (name)

For other uses, see Mathur (disambiguation).

Mathur is a subcaste of the Kayastha community in Northern India, ^[1] with their origins possibly in Mathura. ^[2]

Mathur in South India

Sizeable Mathur community is also found in South India, mostly in Hyderabad. ^{[3] [4]} They mostly migrated from North India to find placement in administration under Medieval Indian rulers. ^[5]

Notable people

• Anurag Mathur, Indian author and journalist
• Arjun Mathur (born 1981), British-Indian actor
• Ashok Kumar Mathur (born 1943), the former Chief justice of Calcutta High Court, Justice of the Supreme Court of India
• Deepak Mathur (born 1952), Indian molecular and atomic physicist and professor
• Govind Mathur (born 1959), Indian Judge
• M. V. Mathur or Mukut Vehari Mathur (1915-2004), Indian economist and scholar
• Madhur Jaffrey (born 1933), Indian actress, food and travel writer, and television personality
• Mathura Das Mathur (1918–1993), Indian politician from Rajasthan
• Mini Mathur (born 1975), Indian television host, actor and model
• Mukesh Chand Mathur (1923–1976), better known mononymously as Mukesh, Indian playback singer
• Neil Nitin Mukesh Mathur (born 1982), Indian actor, born to singer Nitin Mukesh, and the grandson of singer Mukesh
• Nitin Mukesh Mathur, Indian playback singer
• Om Prakash Mathur (born 1952), Indian politician, member of Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan state in India
• Pradeep Mathur (born 1955), Indian politician and former 4 time MLA from the Mathura constituency of Uttar Pradesh
• Pradeep Mathur (scientist) (born 1955), Indian organometallic and cluster chemist and the founder director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Indore
• Prem Mathur Indian pilot, first Indian woman commercial pilot
• Raghav Mathur (born 1981), known professionally as Raghav, is a Canadian singer-songwriter
• R. K. Mathur or Radha Krishna Mathur (born 1953), Indian IAS officer
• Rajiv Dayal Mathur, Indian Air Marshal, officer in the Indian Air Force
• Sanjay Mathur (born 1968), German professor, inorganic chemist and past president of the American Ceramic Society
• Sharan Rani Backliwal née Mathur (1929–2008), Indian classical sarod player and music scholar
• Sheila Dhar (1929–2001), Indian author and singer of Kirana gharana
• Shiv Charan Mathur (1927–2009), Indian politician and minister
• Somesh Mathur, Indian singer, composer, songwriter, and music producer
• Surat Mathur (1930–2021), Indian long-distance runner
• Sushma Seth Mathur (born 1936), Indian stage, film and television actress
• Vartika Mathur (1979), Professor in Zoology, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi

References

1. Carroll, Lucy (1977). "Caste, Community, and Caste(s) Association". In Ishwaran, Karigoudar (ed.). Contributions to Asian Studies: 1977. BRILL. p. 19. ISBN   978-9-00404-926-0.
2. Alam, Ishrat (2011). "Extracting Social History from Medieval Documents of India". In Alam, Ishrat; Hussain, Syed Ejaz (eds.). The Varied Facets of History: Essays in Honour of Aniruddha Ray. Primus Books. p. 61. ISBN   978-9-38060-716-0.
3. M. Radhakrishna Sarma (1987). History of Hyderabad District, 1879-1950 A.D., Yugabda 4981-5052, Volume 2. Hyderabad: Bharatiya Itihasa Sankalana Samiti. p. 28.
4. Karen Isaksen Leonard (1979). The Kayasths of Hyderabad City: Their Internal History, and Their Role in Politics and Society from 1850 to 1900. Hyderabad: University of Wisconsin--Madison. p. 83.
5. Karen Isaksen Leonard (1994). Social History of an Indian Caste: The Kayasths of Hyderabad. Hyderabad: Orient Longman.