Kurmi
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Kurmi is a traditionally non-elite caste of tillers in the lower Gangetic plain of India, especially southern regions of Awadh, eastern Uttar Pradesh and parts of Bihar and Jharkhand. The Kurmi came t
A group of Kurmi women in traditional "Hindustani dress"
An "ethnographic" photograph from 1916 showing Kurmi farmers, both men and women, sowing a field
Another ethnographic print from 1916 showing a Kurmi family employing its beasts of burden to thresh wheat
A third print from the same collection showing the Kurmi family winnowing
Other Backward Class
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The Other Backward Class is a collective term used by the Government of India to classify communities that are "educationally or socially backward". It is one of several official classifications of th
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…political party, which allegedly had a million dues-paying members by 1936. However, the organisation was hobbled by competition from the Congress-backed Backward Class Federation, which was formed around the same time, and by co-option of community leaders by the Congress party. The Triveni Sangh suffered badly in the…
**NFHS Survey estimated only Hindu OBC population. Total OBC population derived by assuming Muslim ABCation in the same proportion as Hindu OBC population.