Kadava Patidar

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Kadava Patidar
ReligionsHindu
LanguagesGujarati
Populated statesGujarat

The Kadava Patidar (also variously spelled Kadwa, Kadva) are a sub-caste of the Patidar. They are mainly found in North Gujarat.[1] They were dependent on cash-crop agriculture and occupied a lower status than the wealthier and more diversified Leva Patidars.[2] The name "Kadava" comes from "Kadi", a former district that existed during the Baroda State.[3] According to Shah in 1982, the Kadva Patidars have received extremely little attention from scholars in comparision to Leva Patidars, which was part of a wider trend among scholars that ignored north Gujarat.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ Trivedi, Jayprakash M. (1 January 1992). The Social structure of Patidar caste in India. Kanishka Pub. House. p. 20. ISBN 9788185475196.
  2. ^ Murali, Kanta (2017). Caste, Class, and Capital: The Social and Political Origins of Economic Policy in India. Cambridge University Press. p. 109.
  3. ^ Sadasivan, S. N. (2000). A social history of India. APH Publishing Corporation. p. 257.
  4. ^ Shah, A.M. (1982). "Division and hierarchy: an overview of caste in Gujarat". Contributions to Indian Sociology. 16: 22.


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