Valmiki caste

In Karnataka the VALMIKI community are also called as NAYAKA,BEDA,TALAVARA. All are belonging to VALMIKI only.In Karnataka the government quota for ST (schedule Tribe) is only 3%.The VALMIKI peoples comes in ST only. From HISTORY in Karnataka the VALMIKI peoples rules some places like CHITRADURGA, SURPUR, KELADI etc. CHITRADURGA Here the the VALMIKI community are called as NAYAKA There are two sub-castes : 1). URA NAYAKA :- The VALMIKI peoples living in cities are called as URA NAYAKA in CHITRADURGA dist. 2). MYASA NAYAKA: – The VALMIKI peoples living in villages, in forest are called as MYASA NAYAKA. The VALMIKI (NAYAKA) kings ruled from 1562 – 1779AD The CHITRADURGA dist for more than 200 years. They are very good. Fighters in war. They won some places. They built beautiful temples, forts, palace etc. Today the who will visit the CHITRADURGA dist they will visit these famous places One of the good news today is M.P. (Member of Parliament) from CHITRADURGA dist belongs to our VALMIKI only. Chitradurga is identified with The story of The courage of “Onake Obavva”, The wife of a soldier of King Madakari Nayaka The great personalities from VALMIKI this cast are MADAKARI Nayaka of CHITRADURGA SAMSTHANA.He won the war against Hyderali father of Tippu Sultan of MYSORE.Karnataka . In CHITRADURGA the VALMIKI (NAYAKA) peoples are having their own schools, college’s institutions. 1) Maharaja Madakari Nayaka First Grade College, Chitradurga-577 501 Madakari Nayaka High School Founde...

“Humare logon par itna dabav banaya jata hai ki woh saamne se apne haq ki baat bol bhi nahi paate.” So much pressure is created on our people that they are unable to openly speak of their rights, says 24 year old Sachin Kumar, who belongs to the Valmiki community. Sachin is a sanitation worker from Umarda village in the Kannauj district of Uttar Pradesh. He lives in a small basti of the Valmiki community, a settlement on the outskirts, where all of them are sanitation workers. A monthly income of Rs 10,000 is pretty low to sustain a family, and from that amount too the contractor either pays him less or sometimes doesn’t pay him on time. He explains that these contractors are from raised castes, and being a Valmiki he has to suffer. He also hasn’t been given a proper brick house, his entitlement under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, and says that the pradhan (village council head) asks for extra money for the house and threatens to cut his name from the list if he is unable to pay. According to the 2011 census, Uttar Pradesh has a large share of the Schedule Caste population, who number around 35 million and constitute 21% of the state’s people. Valmikis are one such caste, and are considered the lowest in that hierarchy. People from the community are mostly involved in works such as sweeping, sanitation and cleaning refuse. Kiran Kumar, 30, a house maid from Dibiyapur in Auraiya, earns around Rs 5,000 per month. She mostly works in the homes of Upper Caste people and feel...

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• v • t • e Mazhabi Sikh (also known as Mazbhabi, Mazbhi, Majhabhi or Majabhi) is a community from Northern India, especially Punjab region, who follow Mazhabi is derived from the mazhab ( the faithful. They live mainly in Origins [ ] When Mazhabi ("faithful"). Divisions [ ] Within the present-day Mazhabi community, one group calls itself the Ranghreta and claims a higher status on the grounds that one of their ancestors was The definition of Mazhabi today is somewhat blurred because of the influence of Valmikism. While Sikhism is in theory an egalitarian faith that takes no notice of caste, gender and other social demarcations, Fenech and Singh note that "there is often a level of hypocrisy between what is taught and what is actually put into practice." Mazhabis are discriminated against by Sikhs whose origins lie with higher-ranked castes and many Mazhabis who converted from Sikhism to Christianity under the influence of Christian missionaries in the later years of the Military service [ ] Before the British Raj era [ ] The Mazhabis were recruited to the army of British Raj [ ] The Mazhabis, whom historian Stephen Cohen says "had strong caste traditions of violence and aggressiveness and were classed as a criminal caste by the British", It was calculated in 1898 that there were 2,452 Mazhabis in the army, along with 28,146 Jat Sikhs and 9,000 other Sikhs. The Sikh Pioneer regiments, which were practically the only military employer of the Mazhabis, were disbanded in Dece...

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Contents • What caste is balmiki? • What was the caste of shabari? • Where is Pampa Sarovar? • What is shabari Jayanti? • Was Ved Vyas a Brahmin? • Which caste is Gill? • What is Thakur caste? • Is Valmikis a Hindu? • What is Chamar caste India? • Is there caste system in Ramayana? • Was there caste system in ancient India? • What is caste system based on? • Is Shukla a Brahmin? • Is Shubman a gill Brahmin? • Which caste is Kaur? • Which surnames are Brahmins? • Which is the highest caste in Brahmins? • Is Joshi a Brahmin? • Who is guru of shabari? • Where is Kishkindha now? • Where is Sabari Ashram in Ramayana? In Karnataka, a 14-member committee has been formed to determine the caste of Valmiki, the author of the Ramayana. … written by Kannada writer K.S. Narayanacharya. He wrote that Valmiki was born into a Brahmin family. This kicked up a furore, with many Kannada writers taking strong exception to it. What caste is balmiki? Chuhra, also known as Bhanghi and Balmiki, is a Dalit caste in India and Pakistan. Populated regions include the Punjab region of India and Pakistan, as well as Uttar Pradesh in India, among other parts of the Indian subcontinent such as southern India. What was the caste of shabari? Shabari is a common noun here, not a proper noun. That such a story would be written by Balaram Das is understandable as he was part of the Pancha-sakha group in 15th century Puri, Odisha, who challenged Brahmanical customs and identified themselves as Shudra-munis (lo...

The caste system has existed in some form in India for at least The survey finds that three-in-ten Indians (30%) identify themselves as members of General Category castes, a broad grouping at the top of India’s caste system that includes numerous hierarchies and sub-hierarchies. The highest caste within the General Category is Brahmin, historically the priests and other religious leaders who also served as educators. Just 4% of Indians today identify as Brahmin. Most Indians say they are outside this General Category group, describing themselves as members of Scheduled Castes (often known as Dalits, or historically by the pejorative term “untouchables”), Scheduled Tribes or Other Backward Classes (including a small percentage who say they are part of Most Backward Classes). Hindus mirror the general public in their caste composition. Meanwhile, an overwhelming majority of Buddhists say they are Dalits, while about three-quarters of Jains identify as members of General Category castes. Muslims and Sikhs – like Jains – are more likely than Hindus to belong to General Category castes. And about a quarter of Christians belong to Scheduled Tribes, a far larger share than among any other religious community. Caste segregation remains prevalent in India. For example, a substantial share of Brahmins say they would not be willing to accept a person who belongs to a Scheduled Caste as a neighbor. But most Indians do not feel there is a lot of caste discrimination in the country, and...

Further information: In Chuhra, "Hindu" Chuhra, Musali (Muslim Chuhra), Mazhabi (Sikh Chuhra), Ad-Dharmi, Christian Chuhra, or simply Christian ... It is certain that a large majority of the 391,270 Indian Christians enumerated in Punjab were Chuhras - that is, the most stigmatized minority in the province. In what is now Pakistan, the conversions to Christianity and consequent invention of a new identity were largely responsible for the name Chuhra becoming archaic. It is often considered pejorative and applied to almost all of the Christians in the country, whom John O'Brien describes as "descended from one tribe-caste of oppressed and excluded people". In Islam [ ] Main article: Chuhras who converted from Hinduism to Islam were known as Musalis. In Sikhism [ ] Chuhras who converted from Hinduism to Sikhism became known as Demographics [ ] According to the The The Balmikis represent 0.7 per cent in Andhra Pradesh and are mainly concentrated in Boya Valmikis or Valmikis. In the UK, the Council of Valmiki Sabhas UK was established to represent the Balmiki. Sub-castes [ ] The following are sub-castes of the Balmiki/Bhangi/Chuhra caste: • • Boya Valmiki • • • • • Hansi • • • • • Mattu • • • Sahotra/Sotra • Sindhu • • Valmikis Use as an epithet [ ] The location "Chuhra-Chamar" is a locution used derisively by some members of the See also [ ] • • • • References [ ] • ^ a b c Leslie, J. (2003). Authority and Meaning in Indian Religions: Hinduism and the Case of Valmiki. Ashgate...

A man cleaning a dry latrine. Credit: Sharada Prasad CS/Flickr CC BY 2.0 Jashubhai Chaganbhai Gangadia, a Dalit sanitation worker, died while cleaning a manhole in Ahmedabad on October 23. Jashubhai belonged to the Valmiki community, a subcaste that is considered the lowest even among Dalits. The Valmiki caste is traditionally expected to do all menial work, including manual scavenging. Jashubhai, a 45-year-old resident of the Bhootbhavani na Chapra slum in the Vejalpur area of the city, was called to clean a clogged sewage line in the Ashapura residential society in the same area. He had agreed to do the job for just Rs 500. There seems to have been a problem with the society’s connection with the main sewage line of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC). Jashubhai entered a manhole in order get the job done. However, he fell unconscious inside the manhole. People pulled him out and called the emergency health-line number, after which he was rushed to VS Hospital where he was declared “brought dead”. The primary cause of death, as of now, appears to be asphyxiation due to inhaling a poisonous gas. Sailesh Gangadia, the son of the deceased, filed a FIR late at night on October 23 against Jaykar Agnihotri and Minesh Upadhyay, the chairman and secretary of the housing society. As the Atrocity Act has been invoked, the case has been handed over to J.D. Jadeja, assistant commissioner of police, M-division of the Ahmedabad police. In a statement to the media after Agnihotri...