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Information for Authority record
Name (Hebrew)
צ'ראנים
Name (Latin)
Charans
Other forms of name
Cāraṇa
Cāraṇō
See Also From tracing topical name
Caste India
Ethnology India
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q4507341
Library of congress:
sh 85022629
Sources of Information
- Cāraṇa baḍī amolaka cīja, 1989:t.p. (Cāraṇa)
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Chāran Gordhan Singh on a Terrace at Night ca. 1725
Bhavani Das, CC0
File:A Charan of Jodhpur, 1890.jpg
Unknown author, Public domain
File:Chāran Gordhan Singh on a Terrace at Night ca. 1725.jpg
Bhavani Das, CC0
File:Portrait of Ishwardas Barhath, c. 1830.jpg
Amardas Bhatti, Public domain
File:Ummed Ram Bareth of Mahund, Alwar State (1810 CE).jpg
Unknown author, Public domain
Wikipedia description:
Charan (IAST: Cāraṇ; Sanskrit: चारण; Gujarati: ચારણ; Sindhi: چارڻ; IPA: cɑːrəɳə) is a caste in South Asia natively residing in the Rajasthan and Gujarat states of India, as well as the Sindh and Balochistan provinces of Pakistan. Historically, Charans have been engaged in diverse occupations like bards, poets, historians, pastoralists, agriculturalists and also administrators, jagirdars and warriors and some even as traders.
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