Modh is an adjective often adopted in the surnames of Gujarati people who originate from Modhera in Gujarat. [1]

Bania (also spelled Baniya, Banija, Banya, Vaniya, Vani, Vania, and Vanya) [1] is a mercantile caste primarily from the Indian states of Rajasthan and Gujarat, with significant diasporic communities in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Maharashtra (particularly Mumbai) and northern states of India.

Dec 21, 2022 · Gandhi was a Modh-Bania, from a Gujarati merchant community to which the richest family in India still belongs. Ambedkar was a Mahar , a member of a Dalit community subject to “untouchability” within Maharashtra’s caste system.

Jul 15, 2002 · M ohandas Gandhi and Dhirubhai Ambani were the two most famous scions of the Modh Bania, a Hindu commercial caste based in the arid Saurashtra peninsula of India’s western Gujarat...

The Modh Bania caste to which the Gandhis belonged, threatened to excommunicate the whole family if its injunction against foreign travel was infringed.

The wealthy Modh people deal in real estate and jewelry. They once lived only in the northern part of Gujarat state in a small town called Modhera, which derived its name from the Modheshwari Mata temple and the community around it.

Sep 30, 2024 · Gandhi’s father belonged to the Modh Baniya caste, part of the Vaishya varna, while his mother was steeped in the Krishna bhakti tradition, with religious texts including the Bhagavad Gita and Bhagavata Purana.

M.K. Gandhi’s full name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born to a Gujarati Hindu Modh Bania family in Porbandar (also known as Sudamapuri), a coastal town located on the Kathiawar Peninsula (earlier it was a part of the small grand state of Porbandar in the Indian Empire’s Kathiawar Agency).

Jun 18, 2017 · In September 1888, Mohandas Gandhi, then just short of his 20th birthday, decided to sail to England to study law. This horrified his orthodox Modh Bania community, whose head warned Mohandas that he would be excommunicated if he travelled overseas. But the boy defied him and went anyway.

Jun 10, 2017 · There are three instances - two shared in his autobiography, and one an anecdote - where the Father of the Nation called himself a bania. A number of individuals have taken umbrage to BJP President Amit Shah calling Mahatma Gandhi a Chatur Bania.