Baishya Kapali

Baishya Kapalis simply known as the Kapalis are Hindu agricultural caste spread throughout the Indian subcontinent. In the country India they are found in West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Tripura, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Assam and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Other than India they are also found in Bangladesh and Nepal. The Kapalis have excelled in the cultivation of jute and manufacture of gunny bags. Baishya Kapalis or Kapalis are listed as Other Backward Class in West Bengal.

The ninth of the eleven Rudras of the thirty-three crore gods of Hindu pantheon is known as Kapali. According to Vamana Purana the Rudras were the sons of Kashyap and Aditi, while Matsya Purana mentions them as the offspring of the union between Brahma and Surabhi. The Harivamsa, an appendix to the Mahabharata mentions the Rudras as the children of Kashyap and Surabhi. The Adiparva of Mahabharata states that Kapali married the daughter of a sage and begot a son. According to Shourindra Kumar Ghosh, the progeny of their offspring came to be known as the Kapalis.

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