The Ramoshi
are an Indian community found largely in
Maharashtra
Maharashtra () is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to th ...
,
Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh (; ; ) is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and the largest city is Indore, Indore. Other major cities includes Gwalior, Jabalpur, and Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, Sagar. Madhya Pradesh is the List of states and union te ...
, and
Karnataka
Karnataka ( ) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed as Mysore State on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, States Re ...
. They are classified as a Backward Community by the government of India.
History
The Ramoshi in Maharashtra were earlier known as Vedan.
They were then classified as a
criminal tribe under the
Criminal Tribes Act
Since the 1870s, various pieces of colonialism, colonial legislation in India during British Raj, British rule were collectively called the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA). This criminalised entire communities by designating them as habitual criminals ...
s of the Raj.
Culture
They belong to the
Hindu
Hindus (; ; also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma. Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pp. 35–37 Historically, the term has also be ...
section while some are Vaishanavas.
[''People of India: Maharashtra, Volume 3'', Kumar Suresh Singh, B. V. Bhanu, Anthropological Survey of India 2004, ]
References
Further reading
* ''Precolonial India in Practice'', Cynthia Talbot,
Oxford University Press
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, 2001,
External links
Caste & Class Articulation of Andhra Pradesh{{Social groups of Maharashtra
Denotified tribes of India
Indian castes
Social groups of Karnataka
Social groups of Maharashtra
Scheduled Tribes of Karnataka