Raut (caste)

Raut/Rawat
राउत
ReligionsHinduism
Populated states

Raut (also spelled as Rout) is an Indian caste, whose traditional occupation is herding.[1][2]

The Rauts are mainly found in the Chhattisgarh state, and the neighbouring states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. Traditionally, they were predominantly distributed in the districts of Durg, Raipur, Bastar, Nagpur and Bhandara.[3]

  1. ^ Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger (1996). Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India. Cornell University Press. p. 141. ISBN 0-8014-8344-1.
  2. ^ Lidia Guzy (2013). Marginalised Music: Music, Religion and Politics from Western Odisha/India. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 147. ISBN 978-3-643-90272-6. ...the Raut/Gour (the caste of herdsmen), the dominant caste in Chhattisgarh...
  3. ^ Kumar Suresh Singh; B. V. Bhanu (2004). People of India: Maharashtra, Volume 1. Popular Prakashan. p. 1781. ISBN 9788179911006. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)