Rajuar
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Rajwars or Rajuar (also spelt as Rajuala, Rajuad) is a
Overview
The people living in Odisha are mostly from the Nagbansi group and they live in
People living in Odisha speak
The Rajuars are a low cultivating caste of Bihar and Chotanagpur, who are probably an offshoot of Bhuinyas. In the Central Provinces, the Bhuinyas hava a sub-caste called Rajuar. The Rajuars of Bengal give a different story, admitting that they are descendants of mixed unions between Kurmis and Kols. In Chotanagpur, the Rajuars, like the land-holding branches of other forest tribes, claim to be an inferior class of the Rajputs.[7]
Society
The Rajuar is divided into
The festivals celebrated by the people of Rajuar are similar to the festivals celebrated by the people of the region and are based on Hinduism. Dhulia Festival, Jantal Festival, Magha Puja,
References
- ^ "A-10 Appendix: District wise scheduled caste population (Appendix), Bihar". Census commission of India. 2011.
- ^ "A-10 Appendix: District wise scheduled caste population (Appendix), Jharkhand". Census commission of India. 2011.
- ^ "A-10 Appendix: District wise scheduled caste population (Appendix), West Bengal". Census commission of India. 2011.
- ^ "Estimated Population by Castes, 5. Assam – Census 1951" (PDF). Office of the Registrar General, India. 1954. p. 15.
- ^ "A-11 Appendix: District wise scheduled tribe population (Appendix), Odisha". Census commission of India. 2011.
- ^ Ota 2016.
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- ^ Bhattacharya, Birendra KUMAR (1985). West Bengal district Gazetteers, Purulia. State Editor, West Bengal Districts Gazetteers. pp. 141–142.
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Further reading
- Ota, A.B (2016). "Rajuar" (PDF). Respiratory Tribal Government.
- Sahoo, Yudhishṭhira; Sahoo, Ananta (2007). Rājuāra pariciti. Little known tribe (in Odia) (1 ed.). Bhubaneśvara: Ādibāsī Bhāshā o Saṃskr̥ti Ekāḍemī. OL 16472704M.
- Singh, K. S. (1993). "Rajwar". The Scheduled Castes. Anthropological Survey of India. pp. 1107–1111. ISBN 978-0-19-563254-5.
- Risley, Sir Herbert Hope (1892). The Tribes and Castes of Bengal. Printed at the Bengal secretariat Press. pp. 192–194.