According to one Nepali Historian, there was Zero number of people who had 'Shrestha' as their last name. Now there are over Million Nepalis who have their last name 'Shrestha'. It sounds like every Nepali has some kind of connection with this last name.

hussain khan, please be civilized and learn some etiquette.

If you have argument or comment or do not agree in what I have written, Reply in descent language, we can always do discussion.

Yes, its a good thing there are over Million Shrestha.  "Shrestha" belongs to Newar cast. No doubt. And Newar men are very sweet, responsible and educated. So every woman's dream is to be with a man who is sweet, responsible in life. And Most Women in Nepal marry Newar cast. Thats how women take last name of their husbands. And it happens to be 'Shrestha'.  Happy  now.

Are you related to T.Wood? you have a cool name, Letsplaygolf.

Chann_Tarkari,

One of my Newar friends also said that "Syah-Syah" in Newari language means " Bad-Bad" or in Nepali language "Bigreko-Bigreko".

read it again:

 

" Shrestha or Shresta (Nepali: श्रेष्ठ), is a surname belonging to the community of people in Nepal and India and trace their origin to Northern-Indian roots. They originate from the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in India. During the reign of the Shah kings in Nepal, Shresthas used to work mostly as laborer in India. Even amongst Shresthas, there is a differentiation of caste, called 'thari', the difference being mostly between "panch thari" (5th level) and "ccha thari" (6th level). It is speculated that there is an additional "das thari" (10th level).

Often people from various parts of Nepal who are considered of lower caste (Sarki, Damai, Chyame etc.) have changed their last name to 'Shrestha' and that is the main reason why the number of people bearing 'Shrestha' as their last name has grown exponentially in the last couple of decades. That is also the reason for above 80 percent of people who have 'Shrestha' as their last name can't speak the Newari language.

It is also believed that another caste "Pradhan", originally pronounced as "Pa-Ra-Dhaan". Which means, rice carrier, also came from central parts of India. During Rana rule, Pradhans from different parts of Nepal started to pour in to Kathmandu and mixed themselves with Newars living in the valley. They were called "Pa-Ra-Dhaan" because their job was to carry huge sacks of rice on their backs, to transport from local Newars in Kathmandu to outside of the valley. "

Letsplaygolf

Did you started this thread to derogate Newar? In the beginning I thought your question was genuine but looking at your more recent posts, looks like you started this thread pretending to be naive to ridicule newars.

Are you the owner of the blogsite you have posted: http://shrestha-history.blogspot.com/. It looks like you are. There is only one entry with the same specific question you have started the thread here on December 9. Most amazing is that then you post on December 11, "I was searching on google and I found this at : http://shrestha-history.blogspot.com". How come you came with exactly same played around question?

Each single entry on the blogsite makes fun of Newars. And you named yourself  started that blogsite taking newari name to ridicule

1. Shrestha working as porter in north india during the time of Shah king

2. Damai, sarki, kami being Shrestha

3. Pradhan as porter or carrier of Dhan

Now you again riducule by saying one of your newar friend said "One of my Newar friends also said that "Syah-Syah" in Newari language means " Bad-Bad" or in Nepali language "Bigreko-Bigreko""

What is that? Playing with language and pretending ignorant to  make fun of  other ethnic group with cheap jokes and remarks of no values.

San bhai if you can please post the ip address of this coward.

OK pokhari,

You may have decent accent and sober character but your contents are intimidating while trying to group the people within Newars. I am fairly sure that you are not Newars and you don't have much idea of grouping/ranking the castes.

Your such attempt to rank/group the castes will definitely bring serious arguments which may eventually spark more serious demarcation within Newars.

Hence, I have nothing to say but to make you aware that you should never talk about higher caste and lower caste. It is very dangerous to your self.

Common Khan, looks like you did not have time to read my post in detail.

I know it is hard to talk about jaati and ethnicity and need to be very careful not to hurt the feeling. As every individual is proud of his ancestry and heritage.

But it is also hard to talk about social structure and caste system with out strata. But I have mentioned that many of present day lower cast  were higher caste in the past.and also gave example of how the higher caste was a nominal in the past. Caste is what but the power and goes up and down with that. If you watch Gladiator you will see that how the general of the Roman army was made into a slave.


many of the lower newar castes were higher castes or royalties in the past. For example: Kashais are the descendants of Mahishpal Abhirs and Gopalis were the gopal kings. According to Dr. Jagdish Chandra Regmi, most of the Jyapus are from licchawis. According to Bashu Pasha, Malis/Malakars (Gathus) are the descendants of Kirati kings, According to Bhakti Das Shrestha/Rajendra Shrestha Manandhars have some greek blood and came from Shalmiya country of west india. Even when you look at facial feature of  lower class newars they look more aryan than other higher class newars - for example Kashai, chyame, dhobi etc.

Caste is what but the power......

Rodiohead,

why would a mother of a guy whose last name is "Shrestha", not let her son to have a relationship with a girl whose last name is "Maharjan". I even spoke with the girl and she said it's a plain caste issue. His mother is not happy with her because she is from a caste other than Shrestha.

letsplaygolf,  dont want to quote radiohead here, but thats what i mean....

why dont u ask that lady herself to get an honest answer....

Caste is has always come up especially for a marriage purpose. and it will come for many more years to come. Why?? Simply because we got a lot of useless people like you...

To be honest who cares?  I really don't care about religion or caste system.

Peace!!!

HaHaHa...sajha.com  baata maile dherai kuraharu thaha paaye Newar/jyapu haruko baare......

ye, yiniharu pani India baata aayeka po rahechan...... pahile pahile haami Rasuwa baata kathmandu aauda haamilai dekhi sahadaina thiye..... Khali bhote, bhote bhanera chhi-chhi garthe.....ahile pani dheraile tesai garchan......Kathmandu bhaneko uniharuko bau ko birta jasto garchan.....Khas bahun haru jastai hun yi jyapu haru pani..... ajha badi kattar chan yiniharu khas haru bhanda pani....ta-ta ma-ta garera hairaan garthe...Nepalmandal re??? jyapu ko budhhi ch*k ma huncha bhaneko yehi ho... hahaha

jasle je gare ni rbdlama le afno jaat chai dekhayo hai.. la yasma koi jyapu le comment hanos na ta,

I remember a girl who was from a "Maharjan" family. She fell in love with a guy who was from a "Shrestha" family. The girl was so nice and innocent. The guy's family rejected her because they said she was from a "Maharjan" family.

I didn't know Newars had these kinds of caste problem and to me it showed that Shresthas ...themselves don't really want to mix with other authentic newari caste like "Maharjan" or "Manandhar" or "Dangol" or "Shakya". They think they are different than Newars.

So this proves that Shresthas must have come from some other place and not from Kathmandu.

I remember a girl who was from a "Maharjan" family. She fell in love with a guy who was from a "Shrestha" family. The girl was so nice and innocent. The guy's family rejected her because they said she was from a "Maharjan" family.

I didn't know Newars had these kinds of caste problem and to me it showed that Shresthas ...themselves don't really want to mix with other authentic newari caste like "Maharjan" or "Manandhar" or "Dangol" or "Shakya". They think they are different than Newars.

So this proves that Shresthas must have come from some other place and not from Kathmandu.

I am not Newar but I respect them becaue when we have to represent Nepal to the rest of the world we have to show Newari and Tibetan Arts and Culture.After Mall dynasty we have negative development in almost all sectors.I have Newars, Bahuns and Chettris relatives.So, I know their cuture more or less.

In the Same post SIS wrote that Buffalo's momo eating People etc etc, I would like to ask SIS what's wrong with eating Buffallo's meat? Any Scientific reason? Buffallo meat is one of the best meat because it has less fat and more taste especially sukuti and yakulako masu with farshi.I personally don't like chicken, turkey and goat meat.Chicken and turkey don't have taste and Goat meat has nasty smell.Goat meat is only eaten in Nepal, India and MiddleEast. Rest of the world don't eat Goat meat because of its nasty smell not because they don't know about Goat.

Most of the Nepalese like to show off.They want to show the other people that they can afford goat meat.They eat Goat meat  not becasue of the taste but to maintain their status.If it is expensive, most of the Nepalese want it to show off. It was  in the food channel the food taster of  Travel Channel said buffalo meat is as good as beef. I know some of the bahuns don't eat garlic, onions and mushrooms, any scientific reason or don't know how to prepare good meal or don't have taste bud? I cannot stand who makes fun of eating buffalo meat.Give me the scientific reason why we cannot eat it.

 

 

This is really a dumb question. It could be "Why so many Jyapu have their lastname "SHRESTHA" ? "

 

exactly.. Free H1B, why so many jyapu have their last name shrestha whereas they arent supposed to do so.
along with this, your name should be Free H1B- the fag

wow.. look look...a bunch of monkeys :D



lets take some pictures of them while they're trying to figure out how they're different from each other..



i dont spot any difference...they're all monkeys :D



give em a banana sum1

oie nepali.choor ma pakhya khwasa.....jigu nakku niwula .......

I m sorry i have to bring this thread to life again. I know the Shrestha people will hate me for doing this. I m actually doing this research for my paper.

Yesterday I was searching on facebook site and I found a few exciting facebook pages about Shrestha. Here are some:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/We-love-Newari-dressfoodculture/109811961138?v=wall

 

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Why-so-many-Nepalis-have-their-Last-Name-SHRESTHA-/234385538031?v=wall

hope you will add some comments on the posts :_)