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Kewats are recognised as Scheduled Caste in the states of Assam, West Bengal and Tripura as Keot, Keyot or Jalkeot. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] With a population of 937,861, Kewats constitute 0.7174% of Bihar 's population in the 2023 caste census .
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They are traditionally engaged in the occupation of fishing and originally belonged to Assam, West Bengal, Odisha and eastern Bihar, Jharkhand along with Bangladesh. Jalia Kaibartas are categorised as a Scheduled Caste [2] [3] [4] and are the second largest among the 16 SCs in Assam under the name Kaibartta, Jaliya. [5] [6]
Patnis are also called Nadiyal and they mainly lived in Sylhet, Dacca, etc and migrated towards districts of Assam, West Bengal and Manipur. [5] The Patnis are divided into five sub-castes: Jat-Patni, who are agriculturists and small traders. Ghat-Patni, Salami or Ghatwal who work as boatmen and take charge of ferries.
In Assam, the Rajbanshis were classified in a special category of OBC called MOBC. In North Bengal, the various new Rajbanshi organisations began to see the Rajbanshi identity as ethnolinguistic in nature rather than a caste, since the various other communities living in North Bengal and Lower Assam also spoke the Rajbanshi language.
West Bengal, Assam, ... 317,543 (West Bengal, 2001 census) Related groups: Sundhi: Shunri (Bengali: শুঁড়ি) is a Bengali Hindu caste whose traditional ...
Gowala [1] [2] [3] (also spelled as Goala) [4] is a subcaste of Ahir/Yadav community, [5] [6] found from Indian state of Assam, West Bengal, Tripura and Himachal Pradesh [7] and the neighbouring states of Arunachal Pradesh, Punjab and Chandigarh. [8] [9] Traditionally they are herdsman or milkman and considered as a prosperous community. [10]
District wise Scheduled Tribes demographic map of West Bengal. More than half of the total ST population of the state is concentrated in Medinipur, Jalpaiguri, Purulia, and Bardhaman districts. Of the remaining districts, Bankura, Malda, Uttar Dinajpur, and Dakshin Dinajpur have sizable ST population. [3]