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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 Raj administration first recognised the separate caste status of Patidars in the 1931 census of India. [13] 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]
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 ...
Gujarat was a major center of Indian Ocean trade, and their capital at Anhilwara was one of the largest cities in India, with a population estimated at 100,000 in the year 1000. After 1243, the Solankis lost control of Gujarat to their feudatories, of whom the Vaghela chiefs of Dholka came to rule the Kingdom of Gujarat .
The 1961 takeover of Portuguese Goa by India made life difficult for the Indian population in the then Portuguese colony of Mozambique. The independence of Mozambique like in other African countries led to many Gujaratis to move to Portugal. [89] Many Hindu Gujaratis have moved from Portugal to Great Britain since the 1990s. [90]
Bhavsar is a caste that originated from warriors. As time passed, the Bhavsar community was made up of community involved in Calico printing business. In Gujarat, Bhavsar are also known as Baniya (Vaniya) as the Bhavsar community has a long history of trading in textile, agriculture and other retail businesses.
Claude Markovits, a French historian of colonial India, writes that Hindu society in north and west India (Sindh), in late 18th century and much of 19th century, lacked a proper caste system, their religious identities were fluid (a combination of Saivism, Vaisnavism, Sikhism), and the Brahmins were not the widespread priestly group (but the ...