Dhangar

This article is about the pastoral community in Maharashtra and Goa. For the similarly-named tribe and language found in Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha and Chhattisgarh - Dhangad (tribe) and Dhangar (Kurukh language dialect), see Dhangar (disambiguation). For the town in Sagar district, India, see Dhangar, Madhya Pradesh.

The Dhangars are caste of people found in the Indian states of Maharashtra, northern Karnataka, Goa, Madhya Pradesh . They are referred to as Gavli Dhangars in northern Maharashtra (Khandesh region) and the forested hill tracts of India's Western Ghats,[1][2][3][4] there are many distinct Gavli castes in Maharashtra and Dhangar Gavli is one of them.[5][6][7]

  1. ^ Malhotra, K. C. (March 1982). "Ecology of a pastoral caste: Gavli Dhangars of peninsular India" (PDF). Human Ecology. 10 (1): 107–143. doi:10.1007/BF01531107. S2CID 154253698.
  2. ^ "Govt gives another push to get ST tag for Dhangar-Gouly". The Times of India. 9 September 2020. Retrieved 9 September 2020 – via Associated Press.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Malhotra 2001 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Shashi (2011), p. 47.
  5. ^ Rao (1979), p. 129.
  6. ^ Enthoven (1990), p. 368.
  7. ^ Feldhaus (1989), p. 101.