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Mallahs

LC control no.sh2008005037
LC classificationDS432.M2495 (India)
DS493.9.M375 (Nepal)
Topical headingMallahs
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Variant(s)Kewats
Machauras
Malhas
Mallahis
Nishads
See alsoCaste--India
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Caste--Nepal
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Ethnology--India
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Ethnology--Nepal
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Found inWork cat.: 2008029385: Doron, Assa. Caste, occupation, and politics on the Ganges, 2009: ECIP galley (Mallahs; Mallah caste)
Tribes and Castes of the Central provinces of India, 1916: v. 4, p. 171 (Mallà„h, Malha: A small caste of boatmen and fishermen in the Jubbulpore and Narsinghpur Districts)
Caste and the Colonial State : Mallahs in the census, in, Contibutions to Indian society, v. 35, no. 3, 2001: p. 319-354 (fishing and riverfaring group of castes, the Mallah of Nishad, of the Bhojpur-speaking region in eastern UP and Bihar)
2014355970: Mallah of Nepal, 2014: page 3 (Mallah is a term used to describe a boatman of a fisherman. The Mallah are also known as Nishad, Kewat, Machaura, and Mallahi)
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