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The group is known by different names in different parts of the country, including Gor Banjara, Baladiya, Gor, Gour Rajput, Rajput Banjara, Ladaniya, Labana, Nayak, etc. [citation needed] Despite the community adopting a multitude of languages, banjara is used throughout India, although in Karnataka, the name is altered to banijagaru. [8]
Bhai Lakhishah Banjara (4 July 1580 – 7 June 1680) was a warrior and Banjara king, Asian trader, civil contractor and the owner of four villages located in Delhi. He was also supplying goods for the Mughal Army .
Banjara Virasat Museum is a museum dedicated to the Banjara community (a group of nomadic tribes originally from Rajasthan who are settled in various states of India), situated at Poharadevi in Washim district of Maharashtra state in India.
Sevalal Maharaj (15 February 1739 – 4 December 1806) was an Indian socio-religious reformer and community leader, and is revered by the Gor Banjara community as a spiritual guru. Guru Sevalal Maharaj was born to Bheema Naik (father) and Dharamani Yaadi (mother) in 18th century.
Lambadi, Lambani, Lamani or Banjari is a Western Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Banjara people across India.The language does not have a native script. [3]Regional dialects are divided between the Banjara of Maharashtra (written in Devanagari), Karnataka (written in the Kannada script), Tamil Nadu (written in the Tamil script) and Andhra Pradesh, Telangana (written in the Telugu script).
The Muslim Banjara or Turka Lambadi are a Muslim community found in the states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh in India. Many members of this community migrated to Pakistan in 1947, and have settled in Karachi and Sindh. They are also known as the Makrani, especially in Uttar Pradesh, and they use Mikrani as their surname.
Govindgiri, also known as Govind Guru Banjara, (1858–1931) was a social and religious reformer in the early 1900s in the tribal border areas of present-day Rajasthan and Gujarat states in India. [1] He is seen as having popularized the Bhagat movement, which was first started in the 18th century. [2]
Etymologically, the word Banjar is derived from terminology in the Janyawai dialect of Ma'anyan language, which rooted from Old Javanese language. It is initially used to identified the Ma'anyan, Meratus Dayak, and Ngaju people who are already "Javanized" when the Javanese people arrived in the southeastern Kalimantan regions to established their civilization.