Kayastha or Kayasth denotes a cluster of disparate Indian communities broadly categorised by the regions of the Indian subcontinent in which they were traditionally located—the Chitraguptavanshi Kayasthas of North India, the Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhus of Maharashtra, the Bengali Kayasthas of Bengal and Karanas of Odisha. All of them were traditionally considered "writing castes", who had historically served the ruling powers as administrators, ministers and record-keepers.
"Calcutta Kayastha", a late 18th-century depiction by Frans Balthazar Solvyns
A Kayastha employee of the political agent of the Bagelkhand Agency 1901.
Chitraguptavanshi Kayastha
Chitraguptavanshi Kayastha, also referred to as North-Indian Kayastha, is a subgroup of Hindus of the Kayastha community that are mainly concentrated in the Hindi Belt of North India.
Image: Garhwa fort temple
Image: Ajaygrah Rock Inscription
Image: Munshi Hargopal Tafta (d. 1879)
Image: Maharaja Tikait Rai, minister of Oudh, d. 1801