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Hindu caste From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Dhimar is a caste in India, sometimes referred to as a sub-caste of boatmen.[1]
Communities that are related to the Dhimar Kashyap Kashyap Rajput Mehra live in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh include the Dhinwar, Dhewar, Jhimar, Jhinwar, Jhiwar, Kanshilya , Koshyal, kahar. There were proposals in 2013 that some or all of these communities in the state should be reclassified as Scheduled Castes under India's system of positive discrimination; this would have involved declassifying them from the Other Backwards Class category.[1] Whether or not this would happen was a significant issue in the campaign for the 2014 Indian general election.[2]
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