Census-2019
Bhanap Family Names
What's new
❉ Updated Bhanap Migration
❉ Updated Bhanap Family Names
❉ Updated Bhanap Family Trees
Commemoration
This site was launched on February 28, 2021 to commemorate Shri Manohar V Basrur who would have celebrated his 96th birthday this day.
Basrur Manohar maam was very proud of his bhanap roots and remained active in various community organizations even as his career relocated him all over India
– he was an engineer in the Indian Railways eventualy retiring as its Chairman of the Board in 1983 more...
One goal of this site is to celebrate and honor all members of the small bhanap community of 25,000 individuals and their families scattered all over the world.
As a community we have many noteworthy achievements such as creating the first cooperative bank, the first cooperative housing society, conducting a census, all as far back as in the late 1800s.
None of these would have happened without the persistent efforts of a number of remarkable individuals. Our goal is to honor each and every one of them.
Another goal of this site is to make an interactive family tree of every bhanap family accessible to everyone interested in tracing their roots.
Like a few others bhanaps, Basrur Sunita pacchi (nee Mangalore) had an encyclopedic knowledge of many families and their family trees.
By some accounts, there are about five hundred bhanap families today,
descended from the Saraswats who left their home along the banks of the Saraswati river ostensibly about six centuries ago.
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