Maurya Caste
Maurya (Maury, Moriya, Murao) are in the present day primarily an agricultural Hindu community of Northern India and Nepal. They claim that they were at one time associated with the Mauryan empire and are found mostly in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. Many have also settled in cities like Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Punjab, Gujrat and Haryana.
The community has strong social ties with other agriculturalist communities, such as the Kachhis and Koeris.
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