Dhimar
 Dhimar or fisherman’s hut. (Russell, 1916) | |
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The Dhimar is a caste in India, sometimes referred to as a subcaste of boatmen.[1]
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. 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.[1] Whether or not this would happen was a significant issue in the campaign for the 2014 Indian general election.[2]
See also
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[edit]Citations
Bibliography
- Shah, Pankaj (6 April 2013), "Political parties eye Lok Sabha polls, bank on boatmen to claim pole position", The Times of India
- Srivastava, Piyush (25 February 2014), "BJP castes a wider UP net, uses Modi's background to attract OBC votes while seeking blessings by feeding Brahmins", India Today
Further reading
[edit]- Béla Gunda (1984). The Fishing culture of the world: studies in ethnology, cultural ecology, and folklore. Akadémiai Kiadó. ISBN 978-963-05-3279-2.
