UP Politics

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What UP lacks in development, more than makes up in Politics.

Jaya Bachchan: Congress' UP bungle

Covering a large area of Gangetic plane, UP has for long time been a prime real estate loacation
for warring kings and invaders.
Therefore its people take to politics & intrigue like fish to water.
We in UP can lack power for television, but our politics will continue to amuse.
Ofcouse with 180 million population UP constitutes a "sub nation", fortunately there is hardly any feeling of sub nationalism.
Lucknow might not be a metro, but it had sindhis, punjabis, bengalis and marwaris. Good thing about Lucknow was that usually people do not live in isolated communities.
You can get dosa, rosogulla or dhokla for that matter.

From the article

"In the kachehari of every tehsil in UP, every Mathur and Shrivastava (law is usually the chosen profession of Kayasthas. Harivansh Rai Bachchan, one of UP's most famous Hindi poets and Amitabh Bachchan's father, was an aberration) is discussing angrily the treatment the Congress has meted out to a fellow Kayastha.
Brahmins are upset, too. You can't insult Harivansh Rai Bachchan's family in UP and hope to be forgiven.
The Kayastha and Brahmin votes in UP are not large enough to secure victory in individual constituencies. But they can influence the verdict in a large number of seats, especially in Allahabad, Gorakhpur, Bareilly and Western UP."

Ofcourse Kayastha have seen their glory days during Mogul rule, they were one of the few castes which was well versed in Persian, official language of most of the Muslims kings.
Their presence in royal court and administration elevated their social positions.
It also earned them some what derisive moniker of "half-muslims".

It is not clear what is their social class. Article on Wiki tells that they are in essence Kshatiyas.

However Kayastha folk lore claim origin from Bramha (from Kaya (body) of Bramha) and consider themselves distinct from "Chatur Varna".

Generally they are considered as upper caste, except for Bengal where they are considered as "Shudra", albeit Noble ones.

From wiki

"Famous con artist Natwarlal was also from this caste. Present day Don Babloo Srivastava also belong to this community." Heh