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Seal (surname)

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Shil (Bengali: শীল), also spelled Sil, Sheel, Shilsharma or Sheelsharma, is a native Bengali surname that is used by the Bengali Hindu community of India and Bangladesh. It literally means the quality of being devoted. Basically the surname used by the Napit caste of Bengal. In various regions Kayastha caste is the associated sub caste category to it. [1]

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  1. ^ Bhattacharya, Jogendra Nath (1896). Hindu Castes and Sects. Kolkata: Thacker, Spink And Co. p. 611. Retrieved July 13, 2012.