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In the social hierarchy of Rajasthan, they are placed in the middle of the higher castes and the Harijans. They follow endogamy with clan exogamy. The National Commission for Backward Classes has kept both the Kumhar and Kumawat castes separately but together in the same row in the Central List of Other Backward Classes of the state of Rajasthan.
The Other Backward Class (OBC) is a collective term used by the Government of India to classify castes that are educationally or socially backward. It is one of several official classifications of the population of India, along with general castes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SCs and STs). The OBCs were found to comprise 52% of the ...
Bedia (caste) The Bedia are a community in India. They believe that they originally lived on Mohdipahar of Hazaribagh district and have descended from the union of Vedbansi prince with a Munda girl. A legend has heard that they had their own 'Vedas' and hence it is called Bediya. Their Veda was different from the Vedas of Aryans, which were ...
The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes. It has its origins in ancient India, and was transformed by various ruling elites in medieval, early-modern, and modern India, especially in the aftermath of the collapse of the Mughal Empire and the establishment of the British Raj.
Caste panchayat. A panchayat near Narsinghgarh, India. Caste panchayats, based on caste system in India, are caste -specific juries of elders for villages or higher-level communities in India. [1] They are distinct from village panchayats in that the latter, as statutory bodies, serve all villagers regardless of caste, although they operate on ...
Hindi. Bhojpuri. Nepali. Religion. Hinduism. Kushwaha (sometimes, Kushvaha) [4] is a community of the Indo-Gangetic Plain that has traditionally been involved in agriculture, including beekeeping. [5] The term has been used to represent different sub-castes of the Kachhis, Kachhvahas, [6] Koeris and Muraos.
Bania (also spelled Baniya, Banija, Banya, Vaniya, Vani, Vania and Vanya) [1] is a mercantile caste mainly from the Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan, with strong diasporic communities in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Maharashtra (mainly Mumbai) and other northern states. [2] [3] [4] Traditionally, the main occupations of the ...
Reservation in India. Reservation is a system of affirmative action in India created during the British rule. It provides historically disadvantaged groups representation in education, employment, government schemes, scholarships and politics.