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The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly is the lower house of bicameral state legislature of the Maharashtra state in India.Maharashtra came into existence on 1 May 1960. The number of constituencies of the first Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, the lower house of the Maharashtra state legislature in 1960 was 264. 33 constituencies were reserved for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled ...
This is a list of Scheduled Castes in India. The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes are those considered the most socio-economic disadvantaged in India, and are officially defined in the Constitution of India in order to aid equality initiatives. The Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950 lists 1,109 castes across 28 states. [1]
Pages in category "Scheduled Castes of Maharashtra" ... Mang (caste) Mochi (Hindu) This page was last edited on 12 November 2018, at 03:17 (UTC). ...
This is a list of Scheduled Tribes in India. The term "Scheduled Tribes" refers to specific tribes whose status is acknowledged to some formal degree by national legislation. Percent of scheduled tribes in India by tehsils by census 2011
Pages in category "Social groups of Maharashtra" The following 105 pages are in this category, out of 105 total. ... Mang (caste) Maratha (caste) Maratha clan system ...
The evolution of the lower caste and tribe into the modern-day Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe is complex. The caste system as a stratification of classes in India originated about 2,000 years ago, and has been influenced by dynasties and ruling elites, including the Mughal Empire and the British Raj.
The 96 clans that the Maratha caste is divided into were originally formed in the earlier centuries from the amalgamation of families from the (), shepherd (), pastoral (), blacksmith (), carpenter (Sutar), Bhandari and Thakar castes in Maharashtra.
Mahar is numerically the largest Scheduled Caste in Maharashtra, according to the 2001 Census of India. [44] As of 2017 [update] , the Mahar community was designated as a Scheduled Caste (SC) in 16 Indian states, being: Andhra Pradesh , Arunachal Pradesh Assam , Chhattisgarh , Dadra and Nagar Haveli , Daman and Diu , Goa , Gujarat , Karnataka ...