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This articles contains a list Scheduled Caste communities and their population according to the 2011 Census of India in the state of Gujarat. [1] They constitutes the population of 40,74,447 or 6.74% of total population of the state. The Government of Gujarat recognises 35 castes under the category. [2]
The population of Gujarat in the 2011 Census of India was 60,439,692. Of this, 8,917,174 people belong to one of the Scheduled Tribes (STs), constituting 14.75 percent of the total population. The state registered 21.4 percent growth in the Scheduled Tribe population between 1991 and 2001. [1]
The Other Backward Class (OBC) is a collective term used by the Government of India to classify communities that are "educationally or socially backward" (i.e., disadvantaged).
Over 48 per cent of the Indian rural population is female. [66] 44.72 crore Indians are non-literate, more than a third of its 121.08 crore population. [67] Transgender people comprise 0.1% of India's rural population. The Andaman and Nicobar islands, West Bengal, Gujarat, Odisha and Mizoram have the highest proportions of transgender people.
Koli caste of Gujarat The Thakor Koli, or Thakore Koli, is a subcaste of the Koli caste of Gujarat. Koli people form the largest caste-cluster in Gujarat, comprising 24 per cent of the total population of the state. Koli Thakors in Gujarat are classified as Other Backward Class (OBC). During his tenure, the former chief minister, Koli community member Madhav Singh Solanki, included all Koli ...
Other Backward Castes, excluding Muslim OBCs, comprised 48% of the total population of Gujarat. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] 147 communities were considered to be OBCs at the time of the election. [ 9 ] Scheduled tribes (primarily Adivasis ) comprised 15.5% of the population, while scheduled castes ( Dalits ) totalled 7%.
In the census, all instances of Kanbi in Gujarat were replaced with Patidar. [27] The Patidars are estimated to comprise 12–14% of Gujarat's population. [38] Until the 1950s, Patidar and Brahmin children did not dine with each other or drink from the same glasses in Primary schools in Old Ahmedabad. [39]
They are listed among the Other Backward Classes of Gujarat. [64] A few scholars believe that the Leva Kunbis (or Kambis) of Gujarat, a section of the Patidars, are possibly of Gurjar origin. [65] [66] However, several others state that the Patidars are Kurmis or Kunbis (Kanbis); [67] Gurjars are included in the OBC list in Gujarat but Patidars ...