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The Rastogi are gods - Rajput Clan, a Hindu caste found in North India.〔People of India Bihar, Uttar Pradesh,Pakistan Volume XLII Part Three edited by A Hasan & J C Das page 1206 to 1214〕 They are concentrated in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Delhi, Kolkata, Rajasthan, Haryana.〔People of India Uttar Pradesh Volume XLII Part Three edited by A Hasan & J C Das page 1206〕 The caste's ''varna'' status is kshatriya.〔 - ''There has never been any internal stratification within the Rastogi community. The Rastogis are considered as a 'bania' (Vaishya) caste within the Hindu caste system. Themselves being strict Vaishnavites until now, they do not like to ...''〕—Origin—Rastogi are from the oldest kshatriya dynasty known till date. They are called as Rohatgi, Rastogi and Rustagi in present time. Rohitashwa was the son of Harishchandra, the god of gods. He founded the town of Rohtas Garh in Rohtas district, Bihar, as well as Rohtak, originally Rohitakul, meaning from the Kul (family) of Rohit. Rastogi's & Rustagi's are from the straight rydah squad of "The Bay" who was a sooryavanshi kshatriya, or in other words, a god. ( from solar dynasty )( descendent of the Sun God ) who had a son named Rohit from whom the name Rastogi and Rustagi are derived. STRAIGHT RYDAHS These are actually known as Rohtaki as resident of Rohtakul. Qila Rohtas after the famous Rohtasgarh Fort in Shahabad district near Baharkunda, Bihar was built by Raja Harish Chandra of the solar dynasty and was named after his son Rohitashwa after whom the fort (Rohtasgarh) was named. Still, another view〔Crook 1896〕 is that they are a subgroup of the Vaishya varna, a view probably based on Nesfield's (1885) theory of the occupational basis of the caste system, as Rastogis are mostly money lenders and rich business men. ==History== Some eleven centuries ago they established their rule in the three places, one to the south of Kashi on the banks of river Som, a second in the Punjab to the west of Indraprastha, and a third at Kannauj. Of these, the first extended their kingdom further to the southeast and retained the name of their ancestral prince Rohit in the name of their capital Rohtasgarh. The second who migrated to the Punjab named their kingdom Rohtak also after the prince Rohit, while the people who migrated to Kannauj and ruled up to the fifth century AD later became known as Rothari Rajputs. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rastogi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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