समाज
Communities
Every community named by a family in this archive, in alphabetical order and with no order of precedence. The boundaries between them are historically fluid and locally contested; this archive records what a family says about itself rather than adjudicating.
3 recorded in the archive
Goud Saraswat Brahmin
1,037 peopleGoa, coastal Karnataka, Kerala, coastal Maharashtra · The largest Konkani-speaking Saraswat group. Divided by matha affiliation into Vaishnava (Kashi Math, Partagali) and Smarta (Kavale) families.
Chitrapur Saraswat
419 peopleUttara Kannada, Mumbai, worldwide · A distinct Saraswat community centred on the Shri Chitrapur Math at Shirali. Surnames are usually village names — Nadkarni, Hattangadi, Kaikini, Padukone.
Rajapur Saraswat Brahmin
73 peopleRatnagiri and Sindhudurg, Maharashtra · Konkani-speaking Saraswats of the Rajapur region of the southern Maharashtra coast.