Dhimar
{{Short description|Hindu caste}}
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The Dhimar is a caste in India, sometimes referred to as a subcaste of boatmen.{{sfnp|Shah|2013|ps=}}
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.{{sfnp|Shah|2013|ps=}} Whether or not this would happen was a significant issue in the campaign for the 2014 Indian general election.{{sfnp|Srivastava|2014|ps=}}
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- {{citation |title=Political parties eye Lok Sabha polls, bank on boatmen to claim pole position |first=Pankaj |last=Shah |date=6 April 2013 |work=The Times of India |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Political-parties-eye-Lok-Sabha-polls-bank-on-boatmen-to-claim-pole-position/articleshow/19409283.cms}}
- {{citation |title=BJP castes a wider UP net, uses Modi's background to attract OBC votes while seeking blessings by feeding Brahmins |first=Piyush |last=Srivastava |work=India Today |date=25 February 2014 |url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/bjp-leads-in-the-caste-game-in-up-2014-lok-sabha-polls/1/345392.html}}
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Further reading
- {{cite book|author=Béla Gunda|title=The Fishing culture of the world: studies in ethnology, cultural ecology, and folklore|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8gtBAAAAYAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Akadémiai Kiadó|isbn=978-963-05-3279-2}}
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