The Bagdi or Wagdi are a people of India who are one of the
Bhil tribes
Bhil or Bheel is an ethnic group in western India. They speak the Bhil languages, a subgroup of the Western Zone of the Indo-Aryan languages. As of 2013, Bhils were the largest tribal group in India.
Bhils are listed as tribal people of the ...
. They historically spoke the
Wagdi language
Wagdi is a Bhil language of India spoken mainly in Dungarpur and Banswara districts of Southern Rajasthan
Rajasthan (; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical are ...
. However today the largest number of Bagdi speak
Hindi
Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...
with others speaking such languages as
Malvi
The Malvi or Malavi, also known as Manthani or Mahadeopuri, is breed of zebu cattle from the Malwa plateau in western Madhya Pradesh, in central India. It is a good draught breed; the milk yield of the cows is low.
The breed has been studie ...
and
Marwari.
See also
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Bagdi Raja
Adi Malla (694 - 710 CE.), also known as Bagdi Raja, was the founder of the Mallabhum (Malla Dynasty) sometime in the 7th century CE.Malabhum, Bishnupur-Chandra, Manoranjan; 2004; Kolkata. Deys Publishing
History Origins
There are at least two d ...
References
Scheduled Tribes of India
Social groups of Madhya Pradesh
Social groups of Rajasthan
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