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Maharashtra is a state in the western region of India. It is India's second-most populous state and third-largest state by area. The region that comprises the state has a long history dating back to approximately 1300–700 BCE, although the present-day state was not established until 1960 CE.
Aparna Rao and Michael Casimir estimated that nomads make up around 7% of the population of India. [2] [3] The nomadic communities in India can be divided into three groups: hunter-gatherers, pastoralists, and the peripatetic or non-food-producing groups. Among these, peripatetic nomads are neglected and discriminated against social group in ...
In Maharashtra, these people are not included in the list of Scheduled Tribes due to historical circumstances, but are listed as Scheduled Castes or "Nomadic Tribes". [1] The tribes designated as " Denotified ", "Nomadic" or "Semi-Nomadic" are eligible for reservation in India .
Although the introduction of modern modes of transport largely made the community redundant from their traditional occupation, forcing them into economic distress from which they sought relief by turning to agriculture and other unskilled labour, according to V. Sarveswara Naik, as recently as 1996, many still retained a nomadic lifestyle on a ...
The Manchus are mistaken by some as nomadic people [10] when in fact they were not nomads, [11] [12] but instead were a sedentary agricultural people who lived in fixed villages, farmed crops, practiced hunting and mounted archery. The Sushen used flint headed wooden arrows, farmed, hunted, and fished, and lived in caves and trees. [13]
Rabari, a caste of Camel Herders- Tashrih al-aqvam (1825) The Rabari people (also known as Rebari, Raika, Desai and Dewasi people) are a caste group from Rajasthan, Kutch region of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Haryana, Punjab of India and the Sindh province of Pakistan.
Jatba built outposts in the Berar plains, including a fort near modern Nagpur. It was his grandson Bakr Shah who, in order to enlist Aurangzeb's help, converted to Islam and became Bakht Buland Shah. Shah founded the city of Nagpur and brought a revival of the fortunes of the Deogarh kingdom. During his reign, the kingdom covered the ...
The Dhangar community's population in Maharashtra is around 1.5 crore, which is 13% of the total 11.25 crore (112.5 million) population of the state. Devendra Fadnavis , former Chief Minister of Maharashtra , had said that "The situation of the Dhangars in some areas of the state was worse than that of Scheduled Tribes , and the government was ...