Kumawat

{{Short description|Caste clan of India}}

Kumawat is a caste clan of India.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1LqgYxtZPc4C&q=kumawat&pg=PA231|title=Rethinking Indian Political Institutions|publisher=Anthem Press|year=2005|isbn=978-1-84331-752-4|editor1-last=Bates|editor1-first=Crispin|page=231|editor2-last=Basu|editor2-first=Subho}}

Most of them are concentrated in Marwar region. They are also known by the names Maru Kumawat, Mewari Kumawat, and Chejara Kumawat.{{cn|date=December 2023}} The National Commission for Backward Classes has kept both the Kumhar and Kumawat castes separately but together in the same row in the Central List of Other Backward Classes of the state of Rajasthan.{{cite web|url=https://ncbc.nic.in/Writereaddata/cl/rajasthan.pdf|title=

CENTRAL LIST OF OBCs FOR THE STATE OF RAJASTHAN}}