Kunbi Name Adoption
The issue is clouded by the fact that members of the Kunbi cultivator class living in Maharashtra also adopted some of the Maratha names, whether to indicate allegiance to a Maratha chief of that name, or as an attempt at upward mobility. As an example of the latter, researcher Rosalind O'Hanlon quoted the Marathi proverb: Kunbi majhala Maratha jhala ("When a kunbi prospers he becomes a Maratha").
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