Kachhi (caste)
The Kachhi are a Hindu Caste found in the regions of Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh in India.
Myths of origin
The Kachhi caste form a part of a wider community that a common descent. This community, known as the Kushwaha.Kushwaha community - the Mauraos, Kachhis and Koeri.They were classified as shudra caste as they were small peasants and farm labourers [1][2]
Present circumstances
In Uttar Pradesh, the vegetable-cultivators Kachhis traditionally cultivate on their comparatively smaller landholdings without aid of the animals.[3]
In 1991, they were designated an Other Backward Class in the Indian system of positive discrimination. This applied to the populations in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.[4]
References
- ^ Pinch, William R. (1996). Peasants and monks in British India. University of California Press. pp. 12, 91–92. ISBN 978-0-520-20061-6. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
- ^ Pinch, William R. (1996). Peasants and monks in British India. University of California Press. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-520-20061-6. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
- ^ Singh, Charan (1964). India's Poverty and Its Solution. Asia Publishing House. p. 88. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
- ^ Agrawal, S. P.; Aggarwal, J. C. (1991). Educational and Social Uplift of Backward Classes: At what Cost and How. Concept Publishing. ISBN 9788170223399. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
Further reading
- Chaudhuri, B. B. (2008). Peasant History of Late Pre-colonial and Colonial India. Pearson Education India. pp. 467–468. ISBN 978-8-13171-688-5.
- Richards, J. F. (1981). "The Indian Empire and Peasant Production of Opium in the Nineteenth Century". Modern Asian Studies. 15 (1): 59–82. doi:10.1017/s0026749x00006788. JSTOR 312105.