Thursday 6 May 2010

MEGHWAL POPULATION IN INDIA

The Megh (Hindi:मेघ),

Meghwal (Hindi:मेघवाल) or Meghwar (Hindi:मेघवार, Urdu:میگھواڑ, Sindhi:ميگھواڙ)

people live primarily in northwest India with a small population in Pakistan. As of 2008, their total population was estimated at 2,807,000, of whom 2,760,000 lived in India.

They speak Marwari (659,000), Hindi (663,000), Dogri (230,000), Punjabi (175,000) and various other regional languages. As a scheduled caste, their traditional occupations was weaving. Most are Hindu by religion, with Rishi Megh, Kabir, Ram Devji and Bankar Mataji their chief gods.[1][2]
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4 comments:

  1. pmseeju2 September 2011 at 11:10

    meghwal also live in Kutch(gujarat) speaking Kutchi and Gujarati .

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  2. Unknown31 December 2017 at 06:45

    Heartest congralution! Sagar bhai.aapka pryas sarahniye ha.vidvatapurn aalekh.

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  3. Prashant parmar8 May 2019 at 07:04

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  4. Prashant parmar8 May 2019 at 07:06

    Meghwal samaj is also present in maharashtra mumbai nashik pune and other city's which speaks gujrati

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