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 a herding caste of people found in the Indian states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Goa, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. They are referred to as Gavli in southern Maharashtra, Goa and northern Karnataka, Golla in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka[1][2] and Ahir in northern Maharashtra (Khandesh region).[3][4][5][6] Some Gavlis live in forested hill tracts of India's Western Ghats.[3] Gavli, also known as Dange or Mhaske, and Ahir are a sub-caste of Dhangar. However, there are many distinct Gavli castes in Maharashtra and Dhangar Gavli[broken anchor] is one of them.[7][8][9]

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  4. ^ "Govt gives another push to get ST tag for Dhangar-Gouly". The Times of India. Associated Press. 9 September 2020. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Malhotra 2001 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Shashi (2011), p. 47.
  7. ^ Rao (1979), p. 129.
  8. ^ Enthoven (1990), p. 368.
  9. ^ Feldhaus (1989), p. 101.