Similarly, 18 sub-castes in Group-II having 6.5% reservation were Arundhatiya; Bindla; Chamar (Mochi, Muchi, Chamar-Ravindas, Chamar-Rohidas); Chambhar; Dakkal (Dokkalwar); Dhor; Godari ...

Circumambulating a banyan tree: Couples take a coconut in hand, recite their name and gotra, and walk around a sacred peepal or banyan tree seven times. They then place the coconut under the tree.

Photo by Poorvi Gupta In the early 2000s, people in Haryana scorned and actively attacked intercaste and interfaith couples, as well as couples from the same Gotra (clan), village, or adjoining ...

The village was renamed Devaräyapura-agrahāra and divided into 61 shares distributed among several Brahmins of various gotras and sutras, well-versed in the Vedas and shastras. The allocation ...

Somnath Waghmare’s documentary Chaityabhumi (2024) opens in Rajgruha, the house in Mumbai’s Dadar neighbourhood where Bhim Rao Ambedkar lived. Things at the house seem to be frozen in time ...

The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet on Tuesday (April 15) approved the draft ordinance proposal made by the Social Welfare Department to implement sub-categorisation among Scheduled Castes in the state.

‘He was born in Kausika Gotra and hence wrote under Kausikan. This name he usually reserved when he wrote for grown audience. He was born under the star of Vaishak and hence under the name Vaisakan.

Donate a clay pot at a Shiva temple. Take a coconut in your hands. While remembering your chosen deity, say your name and gotra, and walk around a sacred banyan tree seven times. Then, leave the ...

Group 2 consists of 18 castes of the Madiga sub-group, and has been classified as `backward’, including the Arundhatiya, Bindala, Chamar, Chambhar… Group 3 comprises 29 castes of the Mala Group ...