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Punjab is home to 2.3% of India's population; with a density of 551 persons per km 2. According to the provisional results of the 2011 national census, Punjab has a population of 27,743,338, making it the 16th most populated state in India. Of which male and female are 14,639,465 and 13,103,873 respectively. 32% of Punjab's population consists ...
The Ravidasia Hindus/Ad-Dharmi and the Ramdasia Sikhs together constitute 34.93 per cent of East Punjab's total Scheduled Caste population and 11.15 per cent of Punjab Population. Ramdasia, Ad-Dharmi and Ravidassias are subgroups of the Chamar [70] and are traditionally linked to leather-related occupations. [71]
As of September 2020, the caste population data foreach Forward caste citizen in Punjab collected in Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 has not been released to public by Government of India. [5] [6] Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes form 63.2% of the total population of Punjab. [7]
The Other Backward Classes have 31.3% population in Punjab. [146] The exact population of Forward castes is not known as their data from Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 is not made public as of 2019. [147] According to the 2011 census, 73.33% of scheduled caste people reside in rural areas and 26.67% in urban areas of Punjab.
Punjab had the highest proportion of its population as SC (around 32%), while India's island territories and two northeastern states had approximately zero. [20] Scheduled Caste communities exist across India and comprised 16.6% of the country's population, according to the 2011 Census of India. [37]
The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes. It has its origins in ancient India, and was transformed by various ruling elites in medieval, early-modern, and modern India, especially in the aftermath of the collapse of the Mughal Empire and the establishment of the British Raj. [1 ...
They are one of the dominant communities in the Punjab, India, owing to their large land holdings. [2] They form an estimated 20–25% of the population of the Indian state of Punjab. [3] [4] [5] They form at least half of the Sikh population in Punjab, with some sources estimating them to be about 60–66% appx. two-third of the Sikh population.
Khatri is a caste originating from the Malwa and Majha areas of Punjab region [13] of South Asia that is predominantly found in India, but also in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Khatris claim they are warriors who took to trade. [14]