PasouanLes Paswan, également connus sous le nom de Dusadh, sont une communauté dalit de l'est de l'Inde. On les trouve principalement dans les états du Bihar, de l'Uttar Pradesh et du Jharkhand. Le mot ourdou Paswan signifie garde du corps ou « celui qui défend ». L'origine du mot, selon la croyance de la communauté, réside dans leur participation à la bataille contre Siraj-ud-daulah, le Nawab du Bengale à la demande de la Compagnie britannique des Indes orientales, après quoi ils ont été récompensés par le poste de Chowkidars et percepteur d'impôts brandissant des lathi pour les Zamindars.
Mayawati KumariKumari Mayawati (born Kumari Mayawati Das; 15 January 1956) is an Indian politician who served as the 18th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 1995 to 1995, 1997 to 1997, 2002 to 2003 and from 2007 to 2012. She is the national president of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which focuses on a platform of social change for Bahujans, more commonly known as Other Backward Castes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes as well as religious minorities since 2003. She had also served as a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from 2012 to 2017 from Uttar Pradesh.
RamdasiaThe Ramdasia were historically a Sikh, Hindu sub-group that originated from the caste of leather tanners and shoemakers known as Chamar Ramdasia is a term used in general for Sikhs whose ancestors belonged to Chamar caste. Originally they are followers of Guru Ravidass who belongs to Chamar community. Both the words Ramdasia and Ravidasia are also used inter changeably while these also have regional context. In Puadh and Malwa, largely Ramdasia in used while Ravidasia is predominantly used in Doaba.
RavidasGuru Ravidas est un guru, dévot adepte de la bhakti issue de l'hindouisme, auteur d'hymnes compilés dans le livre saint des sikhs, le Guru Granth Sahib. Il était également poète et mystique. Il semble être né en 1377, près de Varanasi, et mort en 1528. Il est aussi connu sous le nom de RaiDas. Membre de la caste chamar, il exerçait les métiers de tanneur et de cordonnier, se décrivant lui-même comme un hors-caste. Cependant, il était mystique profondément ancré dans la spiritualité au même titre que Kabir ou un des plus fameux gourous du Moyen Âge : Ramanand.
RavidassiaRavidassia or the Ravidas Panth is a branch of Sikhism based on the teachings of Guru Ravidass and Guru Nanak who is revered as a satguru. Historically, Ravidassia represented a range of beliefs in the Indian subcontinent, with some devotees of Ravidass counting themselves as Ravidassia, but first formed in the early 20th-century in colonial British India. The Ravidassia tradition began to take on more cohesion following 1947, and the establishment of successful Ravidassia tradition in the diaspora.
ChuhraChuhra, 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. Their traditional occupation is sweeping, a "polluting" occupation that caused them to be considered untouchables in the caste system. Originally following the Balmiki sect of Hinduism, many Chuhras converted to Sikhism, Islam and Christianity during the colonial era in India.
Jammu divisionThe Jammu division (ˈdʒæmuː,_ˈdʒʌm-; dʒəmːuː) is a revenue and administrative division of the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. It is bordered by the Kashmir division to the north. It consists of the districts of Jammu, Doda, Kathua, Ramban, Reasi, Kishtwar, Poonch, Rajouri, Udhampur and Samba. Most of the land is hilly or mountainous, including the Pir Panjal Range which separates it from the Kashmir Valley and part of the Great Himalayas in the eastern districts of Doda and Kishtwar.
Castes en Indethumb|upright=1.8|alt=Deux pages d'un manuscrit présentant un Indien et une Indienne en habit d'époque.|Page du manuscrit Soixante-douze spécimens de castes en Inde (1837). Les castes sont des divisions des sociétés du sous-continent indien en groupes héréditaires, endogames et hiérarchisés. Le terme d'origine occidentale , du portugais (pur, non mélangé), peut désigner deux concepts différents mais liés : les varnas et les jatis, qui sont des subdivisions des varnas.
JatavJatav , also known as Jatava/Jatan/ Jatua/Jhusia /Jataau/Jatiya, is an Indian community that are considered to be a subcaste of the Chrmkar caste, who are classified as a Scheduled Caste under modern India's system of positive discrimination.Jatavs mostly live in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and boundaries of Haryana as well as the Union Territory of Delhi in northwest India. According to the 2011 Census of India, the Jatav community of Uttar Pradesh comprised 54% of that state's total 22,496,047 Scheduled Caste population.
Madheshi peopleMadheshi people (मधेशी) is a term used for several ethnic groups living in the central and eastern Terai region of Nepal, constituting 32% of Nepal's population. It has also been used as a political pejorative term by the Pahari people of Nepal to refer to non-pahari people with a non-Nepali language as their mother tongue, regardless of their place of birth or residence. The term Madheshi became a widely recognised name for Nepali citizens with an Indian cultural background only after 1990.
