BANJARA STASTICAL REPORT KARNATKA STATE

BANJARA STASTICAL REPORT KARNATKA STATE Report Submitted to Mr. Rahul Gandhi General Secretary All India Congress Committee New Delhi BY Dr. Chandrashekar Naik Dr.D Paramesha Naik B.E,M.Tech,M.B.A,M.Phil Ph.D M.Sc, M.Phil, Ph.D, FISEC Congress & Banjara Activist Congress & Banjara Activist Mobile: +91-9379945100 Mobile: +91-9844250997 chandrashekar@siliconedge.in dpnbub@gmail.com 2012

About Banjaras The Banjaras are the largest and historic formed group in India and also known as Lambadi or Lambani. The Banjara people are a people who speak lambadi or Lambani. All gypsy languages are linked linguistically, stemming from ancient Sanskrit and belonging to the North Indo-Aryan language family. Lambadi is the heart language of the Banjara, but it has no written script. The Banjara speak a second language of the state they live in and adopt that script. They are listed under 53 different names. Historically, these are the root Gypsies of earth. During the British colonial rule, these gypsy nomads of India were given the name Banjara, but they call themselves Ghor. The Banjaras are a colourful, versatile and one of the largest people groups of India, inhabiting most of the districts in India. The Banjara are a sturdy, ambitious people and have a light complexion. The Banjara were historically nomadic, keeping cattle, trading salt and transporting goods. Most of these people now have settled down to farming and various types of wage labour. Their habits of living in isolated groups away from other, which was a characteristic of their nomadic days, still persist. Their unique dress, heritage, customs and language distinguish them from the majority population, and they maintain a separate lifestyle. The banjara gypsies love storytelling, music, songs and dance. Men play drums and women dance in a circle chanting to the rhythmic beat. The Banjara are now experiencing rapid changes, and their traditional customs, practices and institutions are undergoing far-reaching transformations. They are now settled as agricultural labourers. With ninty million Banjara in India and thirteen million outside India, there may be hundred million Banjara/gypsies live in the world. The Banjaras are located throughout India. The Banjara are primarily Hindu-Animists with their own gods and goddesses, festivals, and animistic worship practices. They offer goat sacrifices and are also bound by superstitions, fears and witchcraft. And only 12-15% of Banjara people are literate. Banjara Gypsies are proud people with strong family traditions. They have close-knit family relationships with little involvement outside their own community. Nuclear or joint families often live together in one home. Banjara women are easily recognized by their colorful traditional costume with mirrors and coins stitched into their clothing. In the past, Banjara men also wore distinctive dress including an Indian dhoti, along with a long white shirt and turban. Today, mens' dress is generally indistinguishable from other Indians

in the cities. The most loved Banjara food is called bhaggi, which is a spinach leaf curry mixed with goat meat and eaten with bhatti -- a flat bread similar to a tortilla. Banjaras in contemporary periods. In the 18th century a chain of mobile traders connected India to the outside world. Central Asian traders brought goods to India and the Banjaras and other traders carried these to local markets. They bought and sold these goods as they moved from one place to another, transporting them on their animals. They moved over long distances with their animals. They lived on milk and other pastoral products. They also exchanged wool, ghee, etc., with settled agriculturists for grain, cloth, utensils and other products. The Banjaras were the most important tradernomads. Their caravan was called tanda. Sultan Alauddin Khalji used the Banjaras to transport grain to the city markets. Emperor Jahangir wrote in his memoirs that the Banjaras carried grain on their bullocks from different areas and sold it in towns. They transported food grain for the Mughal army during military campaigns. With a large army there could be 100,000 bullocks carrying grain. The Banjaras Peter Mundy, an English trader who came to India during the early seventeenth century, has described the Banjaras: In the morning we met a tanda of Banjaras with 14,000 oxen. They were all laden with grains such as wheat and rice. These Banjaras carry their household wives and children along with them. One tanda consists of many families. Their way of life is similar to that of carriers who continuously travel from place to place. They own their oxen. They are sometimes hired by merchants, but most commonly they are themselves merchants. They buy grain where it is cheaply available and carry it to places where it is dearer. From there, they again reload their oxen with anything that can be profitably sold in other places. In a tanda there may be as many as 6 or 7 hundred persons. They do not travel more than 6 or 7 miles a day that, too, in the cool weather. After unloading their oxen, they turn them free to graze as there is enough land here, and no one there to forbid them.? Banjaras were a community much more in evidence all over India thousand of years from now. In fact, banjaras were called the "exporters" of grain, salt and other goods to distant provinces and regions of the country. Essentially, banjaras were a numerically larger community, operating on a much larger scale, traversing a much larger geographic area. They are also called as Vimukta Jati and Nomadic Tribes. The social category generally known as the Denotified and Nomadic Tribes (DNTs) covers a population of approximately 6 crores. In the period of Raja and Maharajas they however earn their bread and butter by hard

working and doing ladeni work. In British period due to deforestation, industrialization and mammoth constructions work they used to get works of labour and loaders. But in the later stage due to advent of machine age and cutting of jungle and increasing dependency on machines by the British these people became jobless. By working in different areas and settling in those areas they became no longer nomadic and bereft of their earlier occupations, they were suspected of being desperate criminals by the police and public alike, and continue to be hounded as in colonial times. And by the British Government they were notified as criminal tribals. Soon after Independence, these communities notified as criminal tribals were denotified by the Government. This was followed by the substitution of a series of acts, generally entitled 'Habitual Offenders Act'. This preserved most of the provisions of the former CT Act, except the premise that an entire community can be 'born' criminal. The denotification and the passing of the HOAs should have ended the misery of the communities penalised under the CT Act. But, that has not happened. After independence, various state governments have done little to restore land to the DNTs. Schemes for economic upliftment does not seem to have benefited them. The rate of illiteracy among the DNTs is higher than among Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes, malnutrition more frequent and provisions for education and health care almost negligible since most of them have remained nomadic. Above all, there is no limit to the atrocities that the DNTs have to face. However, in some State like Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Delhi, Bihar, Punjab and Orissa they have been included in SC/ST List. In India, as described above, it was the colonial revenue policies which destroyed the itinerant/nomadic communities' earlier trading practices. Till 19th century the local people must find the nomads quite useful for the unusual wares they bring periodically. Their various skills of weaving mats or making baskets or playing musical instruments and more dramatically in the case of acrobats and dancers make them a colourful and interesting presence, in all probability providing relief and diversion from the tedium of daily routine. Present position of Banjaras and its synonyms and Sub-Castes in the list of Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) of the Constitution of India, in different States and Union Territories of Republic of India Sr. No. Nameof State By what name as main Tribe and/or synonym of Banjaras shown in the SC and ST Lists Present position in the Constitution, SC or ST or OBC/none 1. Andhra Sugalis/Lambadis In the list of Scheduled Tribes

2. Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Banjara 3. Assam Banjara and as Gor and Bajigar Nil In OBC as per Mandal Commission Report, Vol. VI and Depressed Backward Classes in Annexure I, Page 241 4. Bihar Banjara In Scheduled Tribe 5. Delhi Banjara, Sirkiband and Labana In Scheduled Caste 6. Goa, Daman, Diu 7. Gujarat 8. Haryana 9. 10. Himachal Pradesh Jammu & Kashmir Banjara/Lamani/Lambadi and Sugali Vanjara, Banjara, Charan Banjara, Mathura Banjara, Meru Banjara, Bagora Banjara, Kangashiya Banjara, Bamaniya Banjara, Ladonia Banjara, Gvaria or Gawalia, Rohidas Banjara (i) By name Bajigar, Shirkiband and Nat (ii) By name as Banjara, Banjara Nats, Lobana, Vanjara Kanjar, Kanchan, Guuar, Badi (iii) By Name Labana (iv) Banjara (v) Banjara of Banjara Nat Banjara Banjara, Gour, Badi, Labaa, Lobana, Bazigar and Sikligar As per Mandal Commission Report in OBC refer page 220 and pages 270 In the list of OBC as per Mandal Commission Report in Commission Report page 243 (i) In the Scheduled Castes list (ii) in the list of OBC, refer Mandal Commission Report page 182 and 244 (iii) in one o the lists (iv) in scheduled caste (v) are in OBC, as Mandal Report Scheduled Caste In OBC as per Mandal Commission Report, Page 184 amd 246 11. Karnataka Banjara/Labana/Lambani Scheduled Caste 12. Kerala Lambadi, Banjara, Subali 13. Madhya Pradesh Banjara, Goar Banjara, Lambana/Lambara, Lambhani, Charan Banjara, Labhan, Mathura Labhan, Kachiriwala Banjara, Laman Banjara, Laman/Lambani, Laban, Dhali/Dhalia, In OBC as per Mandal Commission Report, Page 249. The name Sugali is wrongly printed as Subali the same should be corrected as Sugali. In OBC as per Mandal Commission Report, Page 191 and 251

14. Maharashtra Dhadi/Dhari, Singari, Navi Banjara, Jogi Banjari, Banjari, Mathura Banjari, Bamania Banjara Banjara, Banjari, Vanjara, Mathura Banjara (A) Goar Banjara, Lambadi/Lambara, Lambhani, Charan Banjaral Labhan, Mathura Labhani, Kachikiwale Banajaras, Laman Banjara, Laman/Lamani, Laban, Dhali/Dhalia, Dhadi/Dhari, Singaris, Navi Banjaras, Jogi Banjaras, Banjari, Shingde Banjara, Lambade, Phanade Banjaras, Sunar Banjara, Dhalya-Banjara, Shingadya Banjara 15. Manipur Nil Nil 16. Meghalaya Nil Nil 17. Mizoram Nil Nil 18. Nagaland Nil Nil In the list of Denotified Tribes (VJNT) of Maharashtra State, with Educational, Employment and Economic benefits by State Govt. As per Mandal Commission Report refer page 194 and 253, all Synonyms in col. 3 of this Table A should be included as synonyms. 19. Orissa Banjar/Banjari 20. Punjab i)(a) As Bazigar/Badi/Sirkiband i)(b) Banjra Scheduled Tribe (i)(a) They are in the list of Scheduled Castes. (i)(b) in the list of Scheduled Castes (ii) Lambana, Bhagtava, Ghotra, Kaknia, Khasia, Labana, Lohana, Lobana, Vanzara, Labana and Pelia are in OBC 21. Rajasthan (i) Gwaria/Gvaria/Nat (ii) Banjara, Gamalia, Baladia, Sirkiwala, Labana or Labhana, Maru Banjara, Bamania Bajara, Batora, Digora Banjara 22. Sikkim Nil Nil 23. Tamil Nadu Lambadi, Banjara, Sugali (i) In the list of Scheduled Caste (ii) in the Mandal Commission Report as OBC, refer page 203 and 260 In OBC as per Mandal Commission Report, Page 207 and 263 24. Tripura Banjara, Gour As per Mandal Commission Report

25. Uttar Pradesh 26. West Bengal Banjara Banjara, Gwar/Gor, Ladenia, Gamalia, Osaria, Mathura, Labhana, Dhankute Banjara, Brajawasi Banjara, Nat/Nut Banjara Sikh/Sikh Banjara, Naik/Nayak, Kangi, Sirkibandh, Lathore/Rathore, Gawal refer page 209 In OBC as per Mandal Commission Report, Page 211 and 265 Refer Mandal Commission Report reference page 213 and 266 Banjara Population in India and Reservation Categories Karnataka SC 45,000,00 Andhra Pradesh ST 95,000,00 Maharashtra VJ-A 90,000,00 Uttar Pradesh OBC 85,000,00 Madhya Pradesh OBC 65,000,00 Rajasthan SBC 55,000,00 Gujarat OBC 70,000,00 Delhi SC 40,000,00 Tamilnadu VJ 40,000,00 West Bengal OBC 30,000,00 Himachal Pradesh SC 25,000,00 Bihar ST 35,000,00 Orissa ST 30,000,00 Kerala OPEN 20,000,00 Haryana OBC 20,000,00 Punjab OBC 20,000,00 Jammu & Kashmir OBC 10, 000,00 Arunachal Pradesh OPEN 07,000,00 Total Banjara Population in India more then 9 Crores Banjara population is more than that of most of the states in India but still we don t have any strong political voice in India. All the states were created on the basis of language then if we consider our language as a basis then with such huge population we could be a 6th biggest state in India, Instead of being in one country having same language, culture and socio-economic status we have been put under various categories in various states.

Karnataka State Banjara Population - 45 Lakhs: Karnataka Banjara s Complete Socio- Economic and Political Status Report. Total Banajara population District wise in Karnataka State, Sl.NO District Name Population Bangalore Division 1 Bangalore Urban 2,000,00 2 Bangalore Rural 1,05,000 3 Chikkaballapur 1,23,000 4 Chitradurga 2,34,000 5 Davanagere 2,05,000 6 Kolar 15,000 7 Ramanagara 93,000 8 Shimoga 2,87,000 9 Tumkur 1,88,000 Belgaum Division 1 Bagalkot 2,98,000 2 Belgaum 1,30,000 3 Bijapur 4,05,000 4 Dharwad 1,15,000 5 Gadag 1,77,000 6 Haveri 1,97,000 7 Uttara Kannada 6,000 Gulbarga Division 1 Bellary 2,67,000 2 Bidar 2,45,000 3 Gulbarga 3,12,000 4 Koppal 2,19,000 5 Raichur 2,16,000 6 Yadgir 1,20,000 Mysore Division 1 Chamarajanagar 1,03,000 2 Chikamagalur 1,33,000 3 Dakshina Kannada 13,000 4 Hassan 1,36,000 5 Kodagu 10,000 6 Mandya 40,000 7 Mysore 75,000 8 Udupi 5,000

Sl.No District Banjara Population No.Of Thandas school Hospital Road & Transport Shelters % Literacy Male % Literacy Female Drinking water Agriculture Land 1 Bangalore Urban 2,000,00 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 2 Bangalore Rural 1,05,000 46 13 46 43 12000 17% 9% 12 14000 18000 3 Chikkaballapur 1,23,000 76 13 76 70 8000 12% 4% 8 8000 16000 4 Chitradurga 2,34,000 185 45 183 175 16000 12% 4% 18 17000 45000 5 Davanagere 2,05,000 156 45 154 143 16000 13% 5% 26 17000 36000 6 Kolar 15,000 NA NA NA NA 200 NA NA NA 200 200 7 Ramanagara 93,000 98 24 98 90 14000 16% 6% 18 16000 14000 8 Shimoga 2,87,000 176 58 172 120 23000 22% 8% 18 25000 34000 9 Tumkur 1,88,000 157 42 156 145 28000 17% 5% 34 29000 25000 10 Bagalkot 2,98,000 123 30 121 115 18000 9% 3% 34 22000 26000 11 Belgaum 1,30,000 67 12 67 60 13000 12% 4% 13 18000 16000 12 Bijapur 4,05,000 234 76 232 189 45000 9% 4% 34 47000 46000 13 Dharwad 1,15,000 67 13 67 60 3000 12% 4% 8 3000 12000 14 Gadag 1,77,000 143 56 143 140 21000 8% 2% 15 23000 14000 15 Haveri 1,97,000 152 35 152 142 23000 7% 2% 35 25000 16000 16 Uttara Kannada 6,000 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 17 Bellary 2,67,000 178 35 176 154 23000 8% 2% 32 26000 36000 18 Bidar 2,45,000 165 45 164 154 34000 6% 2% 24 36000 27000 19 Gulbarga 3,12,000 150 94 146 130 20000 8% 2% 13 25000 35000 20 Koppal 2,19,000 132 56 131 124 19000 8% 1% 18 21000 47000 21 Raichur 2,16,000 146 54 145 132 17000 7% 2% 43 19000 46000 22 Yadgir 1,20,000 53 35 52 45 14000 8% 2% 5 11000 15000 23 Chamarajanagar 1,03,000 58 12 58 45 5000 14% 7% 6 5000 32000 24 Chikamagalur 1,33,000 67 35 67 60 9000 14% 5% 7 9000 14000 25 Dakshina Kannada 13,000 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 26 Hassan 1,36,000 78 23 78 70 8000 12% 4% 9 8000 14000 27 Kodagu 10,000 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 28 Mandya 40,000 45 7 45 40 5000 14% 4% 5 8000 7000 29 Mysore 75,000 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 30 Udupi 5,000 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA BPL Card

Total Thandas :2757 Total Revenue Thandas : 1345 Banjara Total Population: 44,72,000 1. Thandas without have Revenue thanda : 1411 ( 51.36 %) 2. Thandas without have school /Anganwadi: 747 ( 26.99 %) 3. Thandas without have Hospital : 2747 (99.27 %) 4. Thandas without have Tar road & Transport l : 747 ( 26.99 %) 5. Thandas without have Shelters : 409950 ( 9.06 %) 6. Literacy rate in banajara male : 11.68% 7. Literacy rate in banajara Female : 4.00% 8. Thandas without have drinking water : 435 ( 15.72%)Banjara without have Agriculture land : 446950 ( 9.88%) 9. Banjara without have BPL Card : 949950 ( 21.01%) Name of the District

Reserved Congress winning assembly constituencies SL.NO Name of the assembly constituency District Banjara Voters 1 Lingsugur (SC) (57) Raichur 30000 2 Pavagada (SC) (137) Tumukur 27000 3 Nagthan (SC) (31) Bijapaur 28000 4 Chincholi (SC) (42) Gulbarga 30000 5 Hadagalli (SC) (88) Bellary 26000 6 Mayakonda (SC)(108) Davanegere 28000 7 Gulbarga Rural (SC) (43) Gulbarga 31000 8 Chittapur (SC) (40) Gulbarga 24000 9 Aurad (SC) (52) Bidar 24000 10 Shirahatti (SC) (65) Gadag 22000 11 Haveri (SC) (84) Haveri 21000 12 Hagaribommnahalli (SC) (89) Bellary 25000 13 Holalkere (SC) (102) Chitradurga 27000 14 Shimoga Rural (SC) (111) Shimoga 23000 15 Mudhol (SC) (19) Bagalokot 20000 16 Kanakagiri (SC) (61) Koppal 19000 winning assembly constituencies Chart

Important Note: 1. The dark color shown consistencies are very thickly populated of banjara voters and other community and educated class accept banjara candidate. 2. The local consistency voters demand the candidate should banajara candidate and he should be local candidate, educated, and young candidate. Then only congress winning possibilities are very high. 3. In 2008-2009 Assembly election from BJP party 8 Banjara candidates were contested on the above thickly populated consistencies out of 8 candidates 7 Banjara candidates were elected. Banjara 7 BJP MLA -2008 Assembly Election SL.NO Name of the Assembly BJP-MLA-Name Results Constituency 1 Gulbarga Rural (SC) (43) Mr.Revu Naik Belmagi Won 2 Chittapur (SC) (40) Mr.Valmaki.Naik Won 3 Aurad (SC) (52) Mr.Prabhu Chavan Won 4 Hadagalli (SC) (88) Mr.Chandra.Naik Won 5 Hagaribommnahalli (SC) (89) Mr.Nemaraj.Naik Won 6 Shirahatti (SC) (65) Mr.Ramappa Lambani Won 7 Mayakonda (SC)(108) Mr.Basavaraj.Naik Won 8 Pavagada (SC) (137) Mr.Somla.Naik Lost