Gauda

One of the five northern brahmin communities (Pancha Gauda); the other
four are the Kanaujias, the Maithilas,
the Utkalas, and the Saraswats. Gauda
brahmins are most numerous in the
western half of northern India, particularly in the western parts of the states
of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh,
in the state of Haryana, and in the state
of Rajasthan.