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The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes. It has its origins in ancient India, and was transformed by various ruling elites in medieval, early-modern, and modern India, especially in the aftermath of the collapse of the Mughal Empire and the establishment of the British Raj.
Vaishya Vani is a sub-caste of Vaishyas, one of the varnas of Hinduism.In the Gujarat state and the Daman territory, they are also known as Vaishnav or Vaishnav Vanik. [1] In Uttara Kannada districts of Karwar and Ankola they are called as Vaishya Vani, or Vani.their mother tongue is Konkani which they speak among themselves in the states of Gujrat, Karnataka, Goa and Maharashtra.
The land ownership by the remaining 17 per cent is also very small as 90 per cent of the Scheduled Caste land owners have a very small piece of land between one and five acres. Like those in India , the Pakistan Vagri are Hindu , and speak both Sindhi and their own language, Bagri , which distantly related to Rajasthani .
"Sindhis are not a caste-free society. My interviews show it is just a false claim". ThePrint "Popular Sindhi Surnames List". 2023-01-25; Buriro Sewhani, Khair Mohammad. "Zaatin Ji Encyclopaedia". "Sindhis - The Scattered Treasure | Sindhi Sangat". www.sindhisangat.com
The caste system is among the world's oldest forms of rigid social stratification. It dates back thousands of years and allows many privileges to upper castes but represses lower castes. The Dalit ...
Ambedkar views that definitions of castes given by Émile Senart [5] John Nesfield, H. H. Risley and Dr Ketkar as incomplete or incorrect by itself and all have missed the central point in the mechanism of the caste system. Senart's "idea of pollution" is a characteristic of caste in so far as caste has a religious flavour.
Vavdi Vachhani was a minor princely state, in the Gohelwar prant of Kathiawar, also comprising two more villages, ruled by Gohel Rajput Chieftains.. It had a combined population of 490 in 1901, yielding a state revenue of 3,300 Rupees (1903-4, nearly all from land) and a paying a tribute of 334 Rupees, to the Gaekwar Baroda State and Junagadh State. now in bhavnagar district
The devotees rushed to collect soil from the ground the man had just walked on, thousands thronging to the front of a venue densely crammed with a quarter of a million people, under stifling heat.