Dhimar (Indic people)
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Name (Latin)
Dhimar (Indic people)
Other forms of name
Bhoi Bundeli (Indic people)
nne Dhimars
Gujarat Bhoi (Indic people)
Kahāra (Indic people)
Kahar (Indic people)
Mahar (Indic people)
Raj Bhoi (Indic people)
See Also From tracing topical name
Caste India
Ethnology India
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q5269562
Library of congress:
sh 90003399
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Banerjee, B.G. Folk illness and ethnomedicine, 1988.
- Enthoven, R.E. Tribes and castes of Bombay, 1975:v. 3, page 328 (Dhimar, subdivision of Macchis)
- Kahāra āṇi tyāñce lokasāhitya, 2016:title page (Kahāra and their folk literature) page 33 (literal meaning of Kahar: one who bears the burden on his shoulders)
- Tribes and castes of Bombay, 1987-:v. 1, page 277 (Bundeli Bhoi is a synonym of Kahar)
- Tribes and castes of North-western India:volume 3 (Kahars (palanquin carriers); sometimes known as Mahar and Dhimar (Sanskrit Dhivara-a fisherman)
- Singh, K.S. People of India. Dadra and Nagar Haveli, 1995:page 51, etc. (the Kahar are also called Raj Bhoi. They claim to be one of the subdivisions of Gujarat Bhoi and descendants of Rajputs. They attribute the name Kahar to a palki(litter) carrier; in some parts of Khandesh the Bhois are compared with Kahars)
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Wikipedia description:
The Dhimar is a caste in India, sometimes referred to as a sub-caste of boatmen. Communities that are related to the Dhimar Kashyap Kashyap Rajput Mehra live in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh include the Dhinwar, Dhewar, Jhimar, Jhinwar, Jhiwar, Kanshilya, Koshyal, kahar. There were proposals in 2013 that some or all of these communities in the state should be reclassified as Scheduled Castes under India's system of positive discrimination; this would have involved declassifying them from the Other Backwards Class category. Whether or not this would happen was a significant issue in the campaign for the 2014 Indian general election.
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