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Garasia

{{Short description|Title used by Koli chieftains in India}}

{{Redirect|Girasia|the genus of snails|Helicarionidae}}

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Garasia alternatively spelled Girasia,{{Cite book |last=Bayly |first=Susan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HbAjKR_iHogC&q=Girasia+title+Koli |title=Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age |date=2001-02-22 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-79842-6 |location=New Delhi, India, Asia |pages=84: They also tended to disparage other arms-bearers whom the Mughals and their succes sors had found both useful and problematic, especially the notables who had been vested with titles like Girasia or ,Girishi Raja, meaning someone from Koli or other arms-bearing lineages with the authority of a 'kingly' self-made Rajput lord |language=en}} Girasiya or Garasiya, is a title used by tribal chieftains and members of other arms bearing lineages in India who held the villages as Giras granted by rulers.

Social order

Present-day Garasias are characterised by several social divisions with well-defined relationships. These divisions have appeared out of situations of culture contact and acculturation. Today Garasias are divided into Koli Garasia, Rajput Garasia, Dungri Garasia and Bhil Garasia.{{sfnp|Mann|1993|p=103|ps=}}{{sfnp|Mann|Mann|1989|pp=81-82|ps=}} The Koli Garasiya were tributary to the ruler of state who gave the Giras.{{Cite book |last1=Hardiman |first1=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8EsfAQAAIAAJ |title=Feeding the Baniya: Peasants and Usurers in Western India |last2=Hardiman |first2=Professor of History David |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-19-563956-8 |location=New Delhi, India |pages=178 |language=en}}

See also

References

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Bibliography

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  • {{citation |title=Culture and Integration of Indian Tribes |last=Mann |first=Rann Singh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a7BBAYDfoAIC |isbn=978-8-18588-003-7 |publisher=M. D. Publications Pvt. Ltd. |year=1993}}
  • {{citation|title=Tribal Cultures and Change |first1=Rann Singh |last1=Mann |first2=K. |last2=Mann |publisher=Mittal Publications |year=1989 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q29TcbHrMfUC}}

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Further reading

  • {{cite book |title=Identity, Gender, and Poverty: New Perspectives on Caste and Tribe in Rajasthan |first=Maya |last=Unnithan-Kumar |publisher=Berghahn Books |year=1997 |isbn=978-1-57181-918-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b9ktWLud0oIC}}
  • {{Ethnologue18|gra|Garasia, Rajput}}
  • {{Ethnologue18|gas|Garasia, Adiwasi}}

External links

  • [https://books.google.com/books?id=qrxsDwAAQBAJ&dq=Koli+Garasiya&pg=PA84 Gujarat: The Long Fifteenth Century and the Making of a Region by Aparna Kapadiya]

Category:Koli titles

Category:Social groups of Rajasthan

Category:Scheduled Tribes of Rajasthan

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