Damor

The Damor are an ethnic community found indigenous to the current state of Gujarat in India. They are also known as Damaria.[1]

For the village in Palestine, see Al-Damun.

Origin

The Damor form a section of the Bhil tribe. Relatively recently, they claim themselves to be of Rajput origin, and claim to be descended from Rajput men who married Bhil women . The Damor are found in the districts of Sabarkantha,Dahod and Panchmahal.They speak the Gameti dialect of Rajasthani, although many also speak Gujarati.[1]

Present circumstances

The Damor are an endogamous community and practice clan exogamy. Their main clans are the Parmar, Sisodia, Rathore, Chauhan, Solanki, Saradia and Karadiya. Most of these are also well known parallel Rajput clans. The Damor are mainly settled agriculturists, and include both landowners and sharecroppers.[1]

As of 2001, the Damor of Rajasthan were classified as a Scheduled Tribe under the Indian government's reservation program of positive discrimination.[2]

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gollark: ?tag blub Graham considers a hypothetical Blub programmer. When the programmer looks down the "power continuum", he considers the lower languages to be less powerful because they miss some feature that a Blub programmer is used to. But when he looks up, he fails to realise that he is looking up: he merely sees "weird languages" with unnecessary features and assumes they are equivalent in power, but with "other hairy stuff thrown in as well". When Graham considers the point of view of a programmer using a language higher than Blub, he describes that programmer as looking down on Blub and noting its "missing" features from the point of view of the higher language.
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References
  1. Lal, R. B.; Padmanabham, S. V.; Mohideen, A. (eds.). People of India Gujarat. XXII Part One. Popular Prakashan. pp. 311–314. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
  2. "List of Scheduled Tribes". Census of India: Government of India. 7 March 2007. Archived from the original on 5 June 2010. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
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