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21 Only Muslim Mochis are in the OBC list, the Hindu section have Scheduled Caste status. 22 caste mahigeer faruki ob list Explanation: In the above list for Uttar Pradesh for all castes linked with traditional hereditary occupations, except those entered with specific mention of name of religion, are included, irrespective of whether their ...
Below a list of Scheduled Caste communities and their population according to the 2001 Census of India in Delhi. Scheduled Caste Population 2001 Ad-Dharmi 5,832 Chadar 1,513 Aheria 13,147 Balai 90,010 Banjara 15,873 Bawariya 10,164 Bazigar 315 Bhil 2,202 Chamar 893,384 Balmiki 515,561 Dhanuk/Dhanak 68,317 Dhobi 137,299 Dom 3,237 Gharrami 221 Julaha (Weaver) 60,496 Kabirpanthi 6,105 Kachhandha ...
Most of the Jatavs belongs to the Hindu Religion. Some Jatavs also became Buddhists in 1956, after B. R. Ambedkar converted him to Buddhism. On September 5, 1990, around a thousand members of the Jatav community from village Jaunpur near Agra converted to Sikhism in a protest against the upper caste people who halted the marriage procession taken out by Jatav Chamar Community.
The caste system consists of two different concepts, varna and jati, which may be regarded as different levels of analysis of this system. The caste system as it exists today is thought to be the result of developments during the collapse of the Mughal era and the rise of the British colonial government in India.
Under Article 340 of the Indian Constitution, the government must promote the welfare of the OBCs. The president may by order appoint a commission consisting of such persons as he thinks fit to investigate the conditions of socially and educationally backward classes (SEBC) within the territory of India and the difficulties under which they labour and to make recom
The large number of Punjabis (with a relatively small number of Sindhis and Bengalis), led to the characterisation of Delhi as a "Punjabi city". Delhi was an absolute de facto Punjabi-speaking majority city from 1947 to till late 1980s. [ 19 ]
The Jat people, also spelt Jaat and Jatt, [1] are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. [2] [3] [4] [a] [b] [c] Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, many Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and subsequently into the Delhi Territory, northeastern Rajputana, and the western Gangetic Plain in the 17th and ...
The origin of this caste lay in an Indian caste named Chamar [49] This same caste is referred to as Ravidassia outside Mauritius, and this terminology is very seldom used in Mauritius. [ 50 ] In the ship records on which Indian laborers migrated to Mauritius , around ten percent of the boarded people mentioned their caste as Chamar.