सुद्रास इसके अंग्रेजी अर्थ का उदाहरण

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay agrees with a namasudra commentator that namasudra probably means "best among the sudras, who were paid obeisance to".

Overall, the term Chandal was a generic term that was initially used to refer to broad groups of people belonging to diverse endogamous communities of similarly despised social position but which later transformed into a caste name and was soon synomously used with the Namasudras.

Transition to Namasudras .

Libertarian social influences that were prevalent in the region across the eighteenth and nineteenth century are believed to have imparted a major impetus to the Namasudras, against social oppression.

The non-orthodox variants of the Bhakti movement, that aligned with the Sahajiya tradition and sought to encompass the downtrodden sections into the society, also catalysed the Namasudras, as a guiding faith.

The Namasudras, thus, successfully strived to carve out an autonomous niche in the social fabric of Bengal, where the distinction of caste was obliterated but that none from the Hindu bhadralok community did identify themselves with those sects, they were branded as exotic and subsequently came to be rejected by other sections of the society.

In 1891, the term Namasudras was recorded in the official census as a synonym for the Chandala(s) and by 1900, it had assumed immense social recognition, as people of the community clung to the new identity and tried to distance themselves from the imagery of the Chandals.

In colonial Bengal, the Namasudras constituted the second largest Hindu caste.

Whilst the Congress protested this and asked for a total boycott of foreign goods, the Namasudras thought differently.

The Namasudras thus rejected the nationalist politics and instead, along with other untouchable castes continued their independent social movement that increasingly self-asserted their independence from the upper castes and threatened to distort the Hindu-societal-structure.

The Namsudras maintained a more aggressive anti-nationalist stance during the Home-rule Movement.

Resolutions were again passed that supported the British confederacy and in some places the Namasudras actively helped the colonial government to foil Congress.

Subsequently, they lost all the seats, even in the electorates where the Namasudras heavily dominated the numbers.