Kulinn.

1866 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 733/1 The privilege of maintaining a plurality of wives is restricted to a very few..except in the case of Kooleen Brahmins, that superlative aristocracy of caste.

1873 E. Balfour Cycl. India (ed. 2) III. K-312/1 Kulin, a class of brahmans in Bengal, who are deemed by other brahmans to be of very pure descent and in consequence many are anxious to wed their daughters to them.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 511/2 Only an extreme section—the so-called Kaulas or Kulinas..persist in carrying on the mystic and licentious rites taught in many of the Tantras.

1911 G. B. Shaw Getting Married Pref. in Doctor's Dilemma 139 Kulin polygyny, though unlimited, is not really a popular institution.

1970 N. B. Bonarjee Under Two Masters 3 The Kulins became an integral and important part of Bengal's life and culture.

1890 in Cent. Dict.

1891 H. H. Risley Tribes & Castes Bengal: Ethnogr. Gloss. I. 146 The Bansajas are those Kulins who lost their distinction on account of..their want of charity, discipline, and due observance of marriage law, three qualities which in later times constituted Kulinism.

1932 L. S. S. O'Malley Indian Caste Customs i. 10 A Kulin Brahman who had an embarrassing number of female relatives is known to have had eighteen of them..married in a batch to a boy ten years old—..Kulinism, as the practice is called, has nearly died out.

1968 B. Walker Hindu World II. 229 In Bengal..polygamous relationships..were common among certain brāhmin sub-castes, notably the Kulīn, ‘noble’,..and the custom is called kulīnism.