28-579: The Konkan is a stretch of land by the western coast of India , bound by the river Daman Ganga at Damaon in the north, to Anjediva Island next to Karwar town in the south; with the Arabian Sea to the west and the Deccan plateau to the east. The hinterland east of the coast has numerous river valleys, riverine islands and the hilly slopes known as the Western Ghats ; that lead up into
56-617: A bid to improve their position in Varna system and Caste hierarchy. In 1911, the Teli community adopted the surname , Rathore and started calling themselves Rathore Teli ; while in 1931 they claimed themselves to be Rathore- Vaishya . According to Shankaragouda Hanamantagouda Patil, this was done in order to climb the social ladder. Such practices were common amongst the lower castes in India. The Arya Samaj movement also attempted to improve
84-537: A gathering of all principal tribal groups of the state to protest against the same. Teli form as a major caste in Vidarbha. They are found in every district of Maharashtra. Teli are known as Sahu in Chattisgarh. The Central Bureau of Statistics of Nepal classifies the Teli as a subgroup within the broader social group of Madheshi Other Caste. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census , 369,688 people (1.4% of
112-561: Is bounded by the Western Ghats mountain range (also known as Sahyadri) in the east, the Arabian Sea in the west, the Daman Ganga River in the north, and the River Aghanashini in the south. The Gangavalli flows in the district of Uttara Kannada in present-day Karnataka . Its northern bank constitutes the southernmost portion of Konkan. The towns of Karwar , Ankola , Kumta , Honavar , and Bhatkal fall within
140-558: The Early Mediaeval period in some parts of South India , the Teli community used to work on their own oil presses to produce oil to be supplied to the temples. The emergence of " Temple towns" in various parts of south India was instrumental in the improvement of social status of some of the communities that were associated with the supply of essential items for cultural activities. The communities like Malakar (garland makers) and Telikars (oil pressers) thus became important for
168-518: The Malabar unto the southernmost tip to Kanyakumari (Cape Comorin). In ancient tradition Coastal South West Indian Subcontinent extends till Sri Lanka . The people along coastal south west India exhibit vast diversity along an underlying commonality as a result of long history of contact with west Asian Mediterranean traders along the Arabian sea coastline. The region includes Gujaratis in
196-700: The Marumakkathayam of the nairs and a section of Mappila Muslims . This is also manifested in feminine deity oriented festivals and rituals celebrating Shakti or feminine power like Navratri festival among the Gujarati People and Thiruvathira festival among the Malayali people. Teli Teli is a caste traditionally occupied in the oil pressing and trade in India, Nepal, and Pakistan. Members may be either Hindu or Muslim; Muslim Teli are called Roshandaar or Teli Malik. In
224-523: The tablelands of the Deccan . The region has been recognised by name, since at least the time of Strabo in the third century CE . It had a thriving mercantile port with Arab tradesmen from the 10th century. The best-known islands of Konkan are Ilhas de Goa , the site of the Goa state 's capital at Panjim ; also, the Seven Islands of Bombay , on which lies Mumbai , the capital of Maharashtra and
252-682: The west asian world. Several west Asian communities have also settled and become part of the diversity of coastal south west India. These include the Parsis , Bohras and Baghdadi Jews in the westernmost region, the Bene Israel along the South western region the descendants of mediterranean traders along Coorg and Mangalore , the Jonakan Mappilas along Malabar region, and the cochin jews and Syriac Nasranis along
280-734: The Ghanchi community of Gujarat have been described as a "counterpart" of the Telis. In the post Mandal phase the growing differences between upper castes and OBC due to tussle between the two groups over political power culminated into replacement of upper castes by the OBCs in the political circle. The Telis along with Yadav , Kurmi , Koeri and Bania took over the erstwhile political elites namely Brahmin , Bhumihar , Rajput and Kayastha .The OBCs in Bihar are divided into upper and lower OBC on
308-1090: The Konkan coast. The largest city on the Konkan coast is Mumbai , the state capital of Maharashtra . Districts on the Konkan coast are, from north to south: The main ethnolinguistic group of the Konkan region is the Konkani people . Specific caste and communities found in the region are the Aagri , Koli , Bhandari , Kunbi , Maratha , Gabit , Mangela, Karadi, Phudagi, Vaiti, Kharvi , Teli , Kumbhar , Nhavi , Dhobi , Kasar , Sutar , Lohar , Chambhar , Mahar , Dhangar , Gaud Saraswat Brahmin (also includes Rajapur Saraswats and Chitrapur Saraswats), Kudaldeshkar , Pathare Prabhu , Gomantak Maratha , Chitpavan Brahmins , Karhade Brahmins , Daivadnya , Kayastha Prabhu , Panchkalshi , Vani , Komarpant , Vadval Gavli , Ghorpi, Nath Jogi, Gurav , Pagi, Kalan, Ghadi, Padti, Vanjari, Namdev Shimpi and others. Billava , Bunt , Nadavara , Mogaveera and Linghayat communities found in
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#1732766123344336-878: The Vanarmare is found in southern parts of Konkan, which was originally associated with the hunting of monkeys. The Gauda and Velip tribes are found in Goa. The Jewish community called Bene Israel is mainly found in Raigad district . The Christians included Bombay East Indians in North Konkan and Mumbai , Goan Catholics in Goa , Karwari Catholics in Uttara Kannada as well as Mangalorean Catholics in Udupi and Dakshina Kannada . Major Muslim communities like Konkani Muslims and Nawayaths are scattered throughout
364-474: The basis of socio-economic mobility and political representation. The trio of Yadav, Kurmi and Koeri are considered as upper OBC; Teli along with Kanu, Dhanuk , Kahar , Kumhar and others are classified as lower OBC. In the late 2000s, some among the Teli community of Bihar , organised by the Teli Sena, were engaging in vote bank politics as they sought to achieve categorisation as a Most Backward Class in
392-468: The drapes are called as lungi or mundu for men. and veshti for women. Another common cultural element of coastal south west India includes relatively more role for women in social system. Towards the southernmost tip of coastal south western India the social system is considerably more matri-focal with instances of matrilineal and matriarchal tradition like amongst the Bunt community of Tulus and
420-437: The earth", or "piece of the corner", derived from Sanskrit words: koṇa (कोण, corner) + kaṇa (कण, piece). Xuanzang , the noted Chinese Buddhist monk, mentioned this region in his book as Konkana Desha ; Varahamihira 's Brihat-Samhita described Konkan as a region of India; and 15th-century author Ratnakosh mentioned the word Konkandesha. The Konkan extends throughout the western coasts of Maharashtra , and Goa . It
448-444: The functioning of such towns. Some of them even became prosperous enough to make donations to the temples. In the first decade of the 20th century, upward mobilisation became the feature of Indian society when lower castes tried to move up in the socio-economic ladder by assuming the names and practices of "upper castes". Professor M. N. Srinivas notes the attempts of Teli community to claim different surnames in different censuses in
476-485: The headquarters of Konkan Division . Historically, the limits of Konkan have been flexible, and it has been known by additional names like " Aparanta " and "Gomanchal", the latter being defined as the coastal area between the Daman Ganga River in the north and the Gangavalli River in the south. The ancient Sapta Konkan was a larger geographical area that extended from Gujarat to Kerala and included
504-406: The oil pressers and for the purpose of obtaining the desired results from the animals, they were often blinded. This made them ritually impure but later many of them as Yang notes took up the occupation of trading and branched off as Bania in order to conceal their impure origin. The Telis of Bengal share their social position with communities like Suvarna Banik , Gandhabanik , Saha . Further,
532-480: The parts of Karnataka which are near to Konkan. Tribal communities include the Katkari , Thakar, Konkana , Warli and Mahadev Koli, mainly found in the northern and central parts of Konkan. The Dubla and Dhodia tribes live in southern Gujarat , Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Palghar district of Maharashtra . Palghar district has the largest percentage of tribal population in Konkan. A small nomadic tribe called
560-434: The people of coastal south west India includes cuisine that consists of agrarian and coastal products and clothing that involves long flowing drapes with bare midriff for both men and women suited for humid and warm climate. Throughout the region women wear drapes called saree in various styles. In the western corner of the region the drapes are called as Dhoti for men. and Chaniya choli for women, further southwards
588-546: The report of Bihar caste-based survey 2022 , the population of Teli in Bihar is 2.81%. In 2018 the Bharatiya Janata Party led government in Jharkhand tried to include castes like Teli and Kurmi in the category of Scheduled Tribes , which was welcomed by protests from tribals of Jharkhand under the banner of Jai Adivasi Yuvashakti (JAY) a local organisation which organised "Adivasi Akrosh Maharally",
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#1732766123344616-719: The southernmost region of South India . The linguistic diversity of the Coastal south west India includes Languages of the Dravidian language family including Malayalam , Tulu , and Kannada ; languages belonging to the western zone of Indo Iranian language families including Gujarati , Marathi , Konkani and languages belonging to the central zone of the Indo-Iranian language families including Urdu and Persian . The region also has speakers of Semitic languages like Arabic , Hebrew and Aramaic . The common elements of
644-422: The state. Initially, they had failed to achieve this repositioning in India's official positive discrimination scheme, with opposition coming from other groups who considered the Teli to be too populous and socio-economically influential to justify the change. In April 2015, Bihar chief Minister Nitish Kumar announced a decision to include the Teli caste in the list of Extremely Backward Class in Bihar. As per
672-419: The status of lower castes. As in the case of Telis, Shri Satyavrat Sharma Dwivedi an Arya Samajist from Farrukhabad published a magazine " Telivarna Prakash " to prove the Teli caste to be of Vaishya varna. Despite the later attempts to claim higher status Teli were initially considered as Shudra and were thought to be lower in status. According to Anand Yang , the Telis worked with beast of burden in
700-486: The westernmost region, Maharashtrians and Goans along the western coastline, Kannadigas in its south western coastline and Tuluvas and Malayalis in its southernmost region of South India . As a result of the thriving trade between the Mediterranean world and South West Indian coastline along the Arabian sea, there has been significant intermingling between the people of Coastal South West India and
728-710: The whole region of coastal Maharashtra and coastal Karnataka . However, this segment overlaps the Konkan and Malabar coast continuum; and usually corresponds to the southernmost and northernmost stretches of these locales respectively. According to the Sahyadrikhanda of the Skanda Purana , Parashurama threw his axe into the sea and commanded the Sea God to recede up to the point where his axe landed. The new piece of land thus recovered came to be known as Saptah-Konkana , meaning "piece of earth", "corner of
756-635: The whole region. They are reportedly descendants of people who came from Hadhramaut (in Yemen or South Arabia ), and other parts of Arabia and the Middle East . The Siddis have their roots in Africa . spanish as well West Coast of India Coastal South West India is a geo-cultural region in the Indian Subcontinent that spans the western half of Coastal India . The region
784-746: Was referred as Sapta Konkan region in the Skanda Purana . Coastal South West India spans across the entire Arabian Sea coastline of the Indian subcontinent from the coastline of the Gulf of Kutch in its westernmost corner and stretches across the Gulf of Khambhat , and through the Salsette Island and Mumbai along the Konkan and southwards across the Raigad region and through Kanara and further down through Mangaluru ( Mangalore ) and along
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