Gurjar
Overview The Gurjar (also spelt Gujjar, Gujar or Gurjara) are an agricultural ethnic community residing mainly in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The community is internally divided into a number of clan groups and h...
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Overview The Gurjar (also spelt Gujjar, Gujar or Gurjara) are an agricultural ethnic community residing mainly in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The community is internally divided into a number of clan groups and h...
Overview The Dhobi, known in some regions as Dhoba or Rajaka, is a community found across India and the wider Indian subcontinent. The community is recognised as a Scheduled Caste in India. Its members have traditiona...
Overview Teli is a caste traditionally associated with the extraction and trade of oil across the Indian subcontinent, including India, Nepal, and Pakistan. The community derives its name from its hereditary occupatio...
Overview Kumhar, also spelt Kumbhar, is a community found in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The community has historically been associated with the craft of pottery, and its name is derived from words meaning ...
Overview Iyengars (also spelt Ayyangar, Aiyengar or Aiyangar) are an ethnoreligious community of Tamil-speaking Hindu Brahmins. Members of the community follow Sri Vaishnavism and adhere to the Visishtadvaita school o...
Overview Iyers (also spelt Ayyar, Aiyar, Ayer or Aiyer; Tamil pronunciation: [ajːɐr]) are an ethnoreligious community of Tamil Brahmins. The majority of Iyers reside in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Together with th...
Overview The Maratha caste is a community based primarily in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is traditionally said to be composed of 96 clans, known as the 96 Kuli Marathas or Shahānnau Kule. According to historia...
Overview Bhumihar, also locally known as Bhuinhar and Babhan, is a Hindu caste mainly found in Bihar (including the Mithila region), the Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, the Bundelkhand region of Madhya ...
Overview Kayastha (also spelt Kayasth) is a term that denotes a cluster of distinct Indian communities, broadly grouped by the regions of the Indian subcontinent in which they were traditionally located. These include...
Overview Kurmi is a traditional cultivator caste found chiefly in the lower Gangetic plain of India. Their presence is most notable in the southern regions of Awadh, eastern Uttar Pradesh, and parts of Bihar and Jhark...
Overview Yadav is a term used to describe a grouping of non-elite, peasant-pastoral castes in India and Nepal who, since the 19th and 20th centuries, have claimed descent from the legendary king Yadu. The label has em...
Overview Rajput (from Sanskrit rājaputra, meaning "son of a king"), also referred to as Thakur, is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups originating from the northern part of the Indi...
Overview Shudra (Sanskrit: Śūdra), also spelt Shoodra, is one of the four varnas in the Hindu class and social order described in ancient Indian texts. The term has been variously rendered in English as a caste or a s...
Overview Vaishya (Sanskrit: वैश्य, vaiśya) is one of the four varnas of the Vedic Hindu social order in India. Within the traditional Varna hierarchy, Vaishyas are classed third, following the Brahmins and Kshatriyas....
Overview Brahmin (Sanskrit: ब्राह्मण, brāhmaṇa) is a varna, or social class, within Hindu society. The varna framework traditionally comprises four classes: Brahmin, Kshatriya (rulers and warriors), Vaishya (traders, ...
Overview The sitar (IAST: sitāra) is a plucked stringed instrument originating from the Indian subcontinent, used principally in Hindustani classical music. It is among the most recognisable instruments associated wit...
Overview The tabla is a pair of hand drums from the Indian subcontinent. Since the 18th century, it has served as the principal percussion instrument in Hindustani classical music, where it may be played solo, as acco...
Overview The mridangam is an ancient percussion instrument from the Indian subcontinent. Traditionally regarded as a royal instrument with roots in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, it occupies a central place in ...
Overview Carnatic music, known as Karnāṭaka saṃgīta or Karnāṭaka saṅgītam in the Dravidian languages, is a system of classical music commonly associated with South India, including the modern Indian states of Andhra P...
Overview Odissi (Odia: ଓଡ଼ିଶୀ), also referred to as Orissi in older literature, is a major classical dance of India that originated in the temples of Odisha, an eastern coastal state. Regarded as one of the oldest sur...