region's surrogate kshatriya or "warrior" class. During British rule, the Bengali Kayasthas, the Bengali Brahmins and the Baidyas considered themselves to be Bhadralok, a term coined in Bengal for the gentry or respectable people. This was based on their perceived refined culture, prestige and education. According to Christian Novetzke, in medieval India, Kayastha in certain parts were considered either as Brahmins or equal to Brahmins. Several religious councils and institutions have subsequently stated the varna status of CKPs as Kshatriya. Notable people This is a list of notable people from all the subgroups of Kayasthas. President of India Rajendra Prasad Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri Chief Ministers Krishna Ballabh Sahay Mahamaya Prasad Sinha Uddhav Thackeray Shiv Charan Mathur Nabakrushna Choudhuri Biju Patnaik Biren Mitra Janaki Ballabh Patnaik Naveen Patnaik Sampurnanand Jyoti Basu Others Sri Aurobindo, Indian philosopher, yogi and nationalist Nagendranath Basu, historian and editor Shankar Abaji Bhise (1867–1935), scientist and inventor with 200 inventions and 40 patents. The American scientific community referred to him as the "Indian Edison". Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian scientist Satyendra Nath BoseKnown for his work on quantum mechanics, for developing the foundation of Bose statistics and the theory of the Bose condensate. The class of particles that obey Bose statistics, bosons, was named after Bose by Paul Dirac. Subhas Chandra Bose Mahadev Bhaskar Chaubal (1857–1933), Indian origin British era Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court. Member of Executive Council of Governor of Bombay in 1912 and Member of Royal Commission on Public Services in India. Har Dayal, Indian revolutionary and intellectual of the Ghadar party in the USA C. D. Deshmukh (1896–1982), first recipient of the Jagannath Shankarseth Sanskrit Scholarship, topper of ICS Examination, first Indian Governor of RBI, first finance Minister of independent India and tenth vice chancellor of the University of Delhi Baji Prabhu Deshpande (1615–1660), commander of Shivaji Maharaj's forces who along with his brother died defending Vishalgad in 1660 Murarbaji Deshpande (?–1665), commander of Shivaji Maharaj's forces who died defending the fort of Purandar against the Mughals in 1665 Jayaprakash Narayan (1902 -1979) - freedom fighter, social reformer and anti-corruption campaigner Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian nationalist, writer, orator, social reformer and Indian independence movement activist of Lal Bal Pal triumvirate Vithal Sakharam Parasnis (17xx-18xx)- Sanskrit, Vedic and Persian scholar; consultant to British Historian James Grant Duff; author of the Sanskrit "karma kalpadrum"(manual for Hindu rituals); first head of