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Puran (Bhanja Puran or Tamudia Puran) is a caste group of East India. They are primarily inhabitants of Odisha, West Bengal and Jharkhand. [1] They are currently considered as Other Backward Class, [2] but Jharkhand and Odisha government proposed to include in Scheduled Tribes list. [3] [4]
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]
9 Only Muslim Nat are in the OBC list; the Hindu section have Scheduled Caste status. 10 The Banjara are partly Muslim, while the Mukeri are entirely Muslim. 11 The Barhai are partly Muslim; 12 The Bharbhunja are partly Muslim. 13 The Baghban are Muslim Mali. 14 The Manihar are Muslim, while the Churihar are largely Muslim.
Bishnoi/Vishnoi in only State [74] OBC list in Rajasthan State. Goldsmith or Sunar/Soni/Sunar/Swarankar in Central [75] [76] [77] as well as the State [78] OBC list in Rajasthan. Khatris in the National [79] as well as State [80] OBC list of Tamil Nadu. Aras (Urs) community of the Mysore Wodeyars in Karnataka. [81] Kathis in the central list of ...
Ambedkar was a scheduled caste constitutional lawyer, a member of the low caste. [39] After 15 years since the first amendment listing Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, the government adopted updated criteria for inclusion and exclusion based on the Lokur committee report of 1965. [23]
Chasas are classified under the OBC category in Odisha, where Odapadhan, a subdivision of the Chasa caste, belong to the SEBC category.Risley notes that, since the caste system is not practiced as per the Varna model he was idolizing, it was possible for outsiders to become Chasas, and wealthy Chasas who took up the title Mohanty could marry into Karana families. [12]
The classification of the Panika under India's system of positive discrimination varies from one state to another. The entire community had been classified as a Scheduled Tribe (ST) by the Government of India in 1949 but in 1971 the Government of Madhya Pradesh redesignated those in what was then that state's Chhattisgarh region as being an Other Backward Class (OBC).
Kālingi (also Kalinga and Kālinji) is a Hindu warrior caste residing in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. [1] In Andhra, they are primarily found in the erstwhile Srikakulam district with smaller numbers in neighbouring districts. [1] They are predominantly a caste of cultivators.