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Marwari, or Marrubhasha, as it is referred to by Marwaris, is the traditional, historical, language of the Marwari ethnicity. The Marwari language is closely related to the Rajasthani language. The latter evolved from the Old Gujarati (also called Old Western Rajasthani , Gujjar Bhakha or Maru-Gurjar ), language spoken by the people in Gujarat ...
Mahawar Vaishya [1] is a category of Marwari Bania caste of the Hindu religion. They are general category and mostly based in Alwar, Gurugram, Jaipur, Mathura, Mandi Govind Garh, Rewari, Hasanpur and also across India and abroad. They believe in Hinduism, Vaishnav and Sanatan Dharma and are called Vaishnav Bania. They are not devotees of a ...
This is a category of Marwari people, a sub ethnic group of Rajasthani Samaj or the category of people whose mother-tongue is Marwari. Subcategories This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total.
Balai is a transliteration of the Hindi word बुनाई. The word means weaving. [4] [5] Weaving is the traditional occupation of Balais. [6] According to Hindu texts, all weavers in Hinduism are the descendants of Rishi Mrikanda. [7] Mrikanda is known as the father of modern weaving. Bunkar is a subgroup of the caste of Balai.
Agrawal (anglicisation: Agarwal, Agerwal, Agrawala, Agarwala, Agarwalla, Aggarwal, Agarawal, Agarawala, or Aggrawal) is a Bania caste. [3] The Banias of northern India are a cluster of several communities, of which the Agrawal Banias, Maheshwari Banias, Oswal Banias, Khatri Banias and Porwal Banias are a part.
Indian Marwari [rwr] in Rajasthan shares a 50%–65% lexical similarity with Hindi (this is based on a Swadesh 210 word list comparison). It has many cognate words with Hindi. Notable phonetic correspondences include /s/ in Hindi with /h/ in Marwari. For example, /sona/ 'gold' (Hindi) and /hono/ 'gold' (Marwari).
The community speak Mewari among themselves and Hindi with outsiders. They have two sub-divisions, the Marwari Salvi and Mewara Salvi, which are further sub-divided into smaller clans. With the decline in there traditional occupation of weaving, they are now mainly a community of landless agricultural labourers.
Deshastha Brahmin surnames are derived by adding the suffix kar or e to the village from which the family originally hailed. [1] For example, Akhegaonkar came from the village Akhegaon, Bidkar came from the town of Bid, Jugade came from the village Jugad, Mulik came from district Muluk and some links say Mulikwadi from Konkan area,Yadwadkar came from Yadwad Nagpurkar comes from the city Nagpur ...