• The Qalandar (Hindi: क़लन्दर, Urdu: قلندر) are a Muslim ethnic group, found in North India and Pakistan. They are also known as Qalander Faqir. A few Qalandar...
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    meaning: a man of Dalit caste, living by singing and music), also known as Domra, Domba, Domaka, Dombara and Dombari, are castes, or groups, scattered across...
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    The 2022 Bihar Caste Based Survey was notified by the Government of Bihar on 6 June 2022 by gazette notification after a Supreme Court ruling. The survey...
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    Sapera (Hindu) (redirect from Sapera caste)
    The Sapera are a Hindu caste found in North India. They are also known as Barwa Sampheriya in West Bengal, Sapela in Punjab and Sparera in Madhya Pradesh...
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  • multi-caste villages, but occupy their own distinct quarters. They speak both Urdu and the Khari Boli dialect, and are entirely Sunni Madari Qalandar Abun-Nasr...
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  • Jogi Faqir are Muslim and are one of the two sub-divisions of the Faqir found in Uttar Pradesh, India.[citation needed] Jogi (caste) Qalandar (clan)...
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  • Mochi Hindu Mochi Musalman Mohyal Nalband Nat Noongar Naayi Penja Perna Qalandar Rayeen Rai Sikh Rajput Ramgarhia Saini Sansi Sapera Satti Shaikh of Punjab...
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  • Orh Patharkat Rom / Rrom / Roma / Romani Sinti Castes Abdal Domba Gandhila Heri Hurkiya Kan Madari Qalandar Perna Sapera (Muslim) Language Domari language...
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  • The Heri are a Hindu caste found in the states of Haryana and Punjab in India. The Heri originated in Rajasthan, and have immigrated some four centuries...
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    entitled "Bullah".[citation needed] Dama Dam Mast Qalandar, a qawwali composed in honour of Shahbaz Qalandar, has been one of Bulleh Shah's most popular poems...
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  • of administration under the district. It is well known for Dada Hayat Qalandar Dargah and Shree Birbalnath Maharaj temple. The town has a municipality...
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    Jalia Kaibarta (category Indian castes)
    people of low ritual status, fishermen, who later acquired respectable caste identities within the larger Hindu fold, helped by their commercial prosperity...
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    A good many are also traders. Like other Gujarati Muslims, they have a caste association known as the Jamat, which acts both as a welfare organization...
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  • The Perna are a Hindu caste found mainly in the state of Haryana in India. The Perna were a nomadic tribe, referred to as vagrant by British ethnographers...
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    popular cultural icons of Sindh are Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai, Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, Jhulelal and Sachal Sarmast. The Saraikis are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic...
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    Bihar caste-based survey, the population of major Muslim castes in Bihar was as follows: The Iraqi/Kalal was counted as a subset of Bania caste. Prominent...
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  • / ضوم or دوم, or sometimes also called Doms) are descendants of the Dom caste with origins in the Indian subcontinent which through ancient migrations...
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  • Orh Patharkat Rom / Rrom / Roma / Romani Sinti Castes Abdal Domba Gandhila Heri Hurkiya Kan Madari Qalandar Perna Sapera (Muslim) Language Domari language...
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  • Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India (category Books about the caste system in India)
    the Indian state of Bihar who has made the Sufi Dargah of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Rural Sindh of Pakistan her home. Of the ongoing conflict of orthodox...
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    Orh Patharkat Rom / Rrom / Roma / Romani Sinti Castes Abdal Domba Gandhila Heri Hurkiya Kan Madari Qalandar Perna Sapera (Muslim) Language Domari language...
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  • Deha (category Scheduled Castes of Haryana)
    pronounced as Dahiya, Dhaya, Dhea, Daiya and Dheya are a caste found in India, and have other backward caste status in Haryana. They forms the largest jat community...
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  • is known for housing the shrines of Sufi saints known as Pir Shah Ghazi Qalandar Damri Wali Sarkar and Mian Muhammad Bakhsh. The village of Ghaseetpur used...
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    Hafeez – former captain of Pakistan national cricket team and Lahore Qalandars player Attaullah Khan Esakhelvi – Pakistani award-winning musician from...
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  • Orh Patharkat Rom / Rrom / Roma / Romani Sinti Castes Abdal Domba Gandhila Heri Hurkiya Kan Madari Qalandar Perna Sapera (Muslim) Language Domari language...
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    playback singer Rohit Kumar - kabaddi player Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324 CE) - Qalandar and Sufi saint Jasvir Singh - kabaddi player Puthar Decadal...
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    Narikurava (category Indian castes)
    are not to be touched and are excluded from streets inhabited by upper castes. This has led to protests and resentment from the community. The Narikuravas...
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  • Patharkat (category Indian castes)
    Patharkat are a Hindu caste found in North India. They are also known as Sangtarash. The Patharkat are a sub-group of the larger Kanjar caste. Their name Patharkat...
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    its embroidery. The girls of the various farming, herding and merchant castes of Sindh have a dowry tradition in which the girl to be married will create...
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    conversion of Hindus and Buddhists to Islam, and its converts were mainly upper caste. Suhrawardiyya spirituality focused on dhikr and Ramadan fasting and followed...
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    Phadak Phulji jagir Phulji Rati Pir Gaji Shah Potho Qasbo Qubo Qalandar-1 Qubo Qalandar-2 Rajo Dero Sakaro Sakir Hali Jo Saranjhari Sawaro Shah Hassan...
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