Jatav

Jatav
जाटव
Languages
Hindi, Awadhi, Rajasthani, Haryanvi
Religion
Hinduism[1] (majority)[2] and Buddhism & Ravidassia Panth (minority)

Jatav, also known as Jatava/Jatan/ Jatua/Jhusia /Jatia/Jatiya, is an Indian Dalit community that are considered to be a subcaste of the Chamar caste, who are classified as a Scheduled Caste under modern India's system of positive discrimination.

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.[3]

  1. ^ Rashid, Omar (18 May 2019). "Jatavs power BSP's campaign in U.P." The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  2. ^ Duncan 2019d, p. 120.
  3. ^ "Jatavs on top of SC population in UP". The Times of India. 4 July 2015.