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Both individual terms, Kunbi and Maratha are equally complex. [24] In the fourteenth century, the term Maratha (among other meanings) referred to all speakers of the Marathi language. [24] An example of this is the record of the Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta whose use of the term included multiple castes who spoke Marathi. [25]
According to Goan historian Anant Ramakrishna Dhume, the Kunbi caste are modern descendants of ancient Mundari tribes. He refers to several words of Mundari origin in the Konkani language and also elaborates on the deities worshipped by the ancient tribe, their customs, methods of farming, etc. [3] [full citation needed] G. S. Ghurye says that "Kurmi, Kanbi and Kunbi perhaps signify the ...
The converts were given Hindu names but the Portuguese government put impediments in their way to get legal sanction to their new Hindu names. [ 6 ] 4851 Catholics from Tiswadi , 2174 from Ponda , 250 from Bicholim and 329 from Sattari Catholic Gaudas were re-converted to Hinduism after nearly 400 years.
Tukaram - Referred to as Sant Tukaram or Tukaram Maharaj, a 17th century Maharashtrian saint. [1]Gulabrao Maharaj - Although blind, he was still credited with giving a vision of life to the people.
The Greek expansion into Indian territory may have been intended to protect Greek populations in India, [264] and to protect the Buddhist faith from the religious persecutions of the Shungas. [265] The city of Sirkap founded by Demetrius combines Greek and Indian influences without signs of segregation between the two cultures.
The 36 Indo-Greek kings known through epigraphy or through their coins belong to the period between 180 BC to AD10–20. [2] There are a few hints of a later Indo-Greek political presence in the Indian subcontinent. Theodamas, known from an inscription on a signet, may have been an Indo-Greek ruler in the Bajaur area in the 1st century AD.
The Nepali caste system resembles in some respects the Indian jāti system, with numerous jāti divisions with a varna system superimposed. Inscriptions attest the beginnings of a caste system during the Licchavi period. Jayasthiti Malla (1382–1395) categorised Newars into 64 castes (Gellner 2001). A similar exercise was made during the reign ...
The ancient Greek tribes (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλήνων ἔθνη) were groups of Greek-speaking populations living in Greece, Cyprus, and the various Greek colonies. They were primarily divided by geographic , dialectal , political , and cultural criteria, as well as distinct traditions in mythology and religion .