The community map

How to read it

Three layers, each one less certain than the one above it.

A surname read outside the region it is attested in keeps its reading but drops a step in confidence, because people move. A low-confidence surname read outside its region is dropped entirely.

A few spellings mean different things in different states. Bhat is a Muslim Kashmiri name in Jammu and Kashmir and a Konkani Brahmin one on the west coast; Gujjar is a Scheduled Tribe in Jammu and Kashmir and a backward class in Rajasthan. Those carry one row per reading, marked split, and the state on the roll chooses between them. Read anywhere else they are shown as the name itself, because there is no halfway answer between two different peoples.

First names that carry a religion

The religion layer leans on these harder than on any surname, so they are published too. A first name here outweighs whatever the family name suggests, which is what stops a Mohammad Sharma being reported as a Brahmin. Everything else is read from the surname alone.

Every entry

Filter or search. Blank cells are honest: the table knows the religion but not the caste, or knows neither.