BANJARA STASTICAL REPORT KARNATKASTATE

Report Submitted to

Mr. Rahul GandhiGeneral Secretary

All India Congress Committee New Delhi

BY

Dr. Chandrashekar Naik Dr.D Paramesha NaikB.E,M.Tech,M.B.A,M.Phil Ph.D M.Sc, M.Phil, Ph.D, FISECCongress & Banjara – Activist Congress & Banjara – Activist Mobile: +91-9379945100 Mobile: +91-9844250997chandrashekar@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

Pradesh

2.Arunachal Pradesh

Banjara Nil

3. Assam Banjara and as Gor and Bajigar

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

Banjara/Lamani/Lambadi and SugaliAs per Mandal Commission Report in OBC refer page 220 and pages 270

7. Gujarat

Vanjara, Banjara, Charan Banjara, Mathura Banjara, Meru Banjara, Bagora Banjara, Kangashiya Banjara, Bamaniya Banjara, Ladonia Banjara, Gvaria or Gawalia, Rohidas Banjara

In the list of OBC as per Mandal Commission Report in Commission Report page 243

8. Haryana

(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

(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

9.Himachal Pradesh

Banjara Scheduled Caste

10.Jammu & Kashmir

Banjara, Gour, Badi, Labaa, Lobana, Bazigar and Sikligar

In OBC as per Mandal Commission Report, Page 184 amd 246

11. Karnataka Banjara/Labana/Lambani Scheduled Caste

12. Kerala Lambadi, Banjara, Subali

In OBC as per Mandal Commission Report, Page 249. The name “Sugali” is wrongly printed as “Subali” the sameshould be corrected as Sugali.

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 191 and 251

Dhadi/Dhari, Singari, Navi Banjara, Jogi Banjari, Banjari, Mathura Banjari, Bamania Banjara

14. Maharashtra

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

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.

15. Manipur Nil Nil

16. Meghalaya Nil Nil

17. Mizoram Nil Nil

18. Nagaland Nil Nil

19. Orissa Banjar/BanjariScheduled Tribe

20. Punjab i)(a) As Bazigar/Badi/Sirkiband

i)(b) Banjra

(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

(i) In the list of Scheduled Caste(ii) in the Mandal Commission Report as OBC, refer page 203 and 260

22. Sikkim Nil Nil

23. Tamil Nadu Lambadi, Banjara, SugaliIn OBC as per Mandal Commission

Report, Page 207 and 263

24. Tripura Banjara, Gour As per Mandal Commission Report

refer page 209

25.Uttar Pradesh

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

In OBC as per Mandal Commission Report, Page 211 and 265

26. West Bengal BanjaraRefer Mandal Commission Report

reference page 213 and 266

Banjara Population in India and Reservation Categories

Karnataka SC 45 ,000,00Andhra Pradesh ST 95 ,000,00Maharashtra VJ-A 90 ,000,00Uttar Pradesh OBC 85 ,000,00Madhya Pradesh OBC 65 ,000,00Rajasthan SBC 55 ,000,00Gujarat OBC 70 ,000,00Delhi SC 40 ,000,00Tamilnadu VJ 40 ,000,00West Bengal OBC 30 ,000,00Himachal Pradesh SC 25 ,000,00Bihar ST 35 ,000,00Orissa ST 30 ,000,00Kerala OPEN 20 ,000,00Haryana OBC 20 ,000,00Punjab OBC 20 ,000,00Jammu & Kashmir OBC 10, 000,00Arunachal 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 PopulationBangalore Division

1 Bangalore Urban 2,000,002 Bangalore Rural 1,05,0003 Chikkaballapur 1,23,0004 Chitradurga 2,34,0005 Davanagere 2,05,0006 Kolar 15,0007 Ramanagara 93,0008 Shimoga 2,87,0009 Tumkur 1,88,000

Belgaum Division1 Bagalkot 2,98,0002 Belgaum 1,30,0003 Bijapur 4,05,0004 Dharwad 1,15,0005 Gadag 1,77,0006 Haveri 1,97,0007 Uttara Kannada 6,000

Gulbarga Division1 Bellary 2,67,0002 Bidar 2,45,0003 Gulbarga 3,12,0004 Koppal 2,19,0005 Raichur 2,16,0006 Yadgir 1,20,000

Mysore Division1 Chamarajanagar 1,03,0002 Chikamagalur 1,33,0003 Dakshina Kannada 13,0004 Hassan 1,36,0005 Kodagu 10,0006 Mandya 40,0007 Mysore 75,0008 Udupi 5,000

Sl.No District Banjara Population

No.Of Thandas

Without school

Without Hospital

Without Road & Transport

WithoutShelters

% LiteracyMale

% LiteracyFemale

Without Drinking water

Without Agriculture Land

Without BPL Card

1 Bangalore Urban 2,000,00 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA2 Bangalore Rural 1,05,000 46 13 46 43 12000 17% 9% 12 14000 180003 Chikkaballapur 1,23,000 76 13 76 70 8000 12% 4% 8 8000 160004 Chitradurga 2,34,000 185 45 183 175 16000 12% 4% 18 17000 450005 Davanagere 2,05,000 156 45 154 143 16000 13% 5% 26 17000 360006 Kolar 15,000 NA NA NA NA 200 NA NA NA 200 2007 Ramanagara 93,000 98 24 98 90 14000 16% 6% 18 16000 140008 Shimoga 2,87,000 176 58 172 120 23000 22% 8% 18 25000 340009 Tumkur 1,88,000 157 42 156 145 28000 17% 5% 34 29000 2500010 Bagalkot 2,98,000 123 30 121 115 18000 9% 3% 34 22000 2600011 Belgaum 1,30,000 67 12 67 60 13000 12% 4% 13 18000 1600012 Bijapur 4,05,000 234 76 232 189 45000 9% 4% 34 47000 4600013 Dharwad 1,15,000 67 13 67 60 3000 12% 4% 8 3000 1200014 Gadag 1,77,000 143 56 143 140 21000 8% 2% 15 23000 1400015 Haveri 1,97,000 152 35 152 142 23000 7% 2% 35 25000 1600016 Uttara Kannada 6,000 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA17 Bellary 2,67,000 178 35 176 154 23000 8% 2% 32 26000 3600018 Bidar 2,45,000 165 45 164 154 34000 6% 2% 24 36000 2700019 Gulbarga 3,12,000 150 94 146 130 20000 8% 2% 13 25000 3500020 Koppal 2,19,000 132 56 131 124 19000 8% 1% 18 21000 4700021 Raichur 2,16,000 146 54 145 132 17000 7% 2% 43 19000 4600022 Yadgir 1,20,000 53 35 52 45 14000 8% 2% 5 11000 1500023 Chamarajanagar 1,03,000 58 12 58 45 5000 14% 7% 6 5000 3200024 Chikamagalur 1,33,000 67 35 67 60 9000 14% 5% 7 9000 1400025 Dakshina Kannada 13,000 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA26 Hassan 1,36,000 78 23 78 70 8000 12% 4% 9 8000 1400027 Kodagu 10,000 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA28 Mandya 40,000 45 7 45 40 5000 14% 4% 5 8000 700029 Mysore 75,000 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA30 Udupi 5,000 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA

Banjara Total Population: 44,72,000Total Thandas :2757 Total Revenue Thandas : 1345

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 300002 Pavagada (SC) (137) Tumukur 270003 Nagthan (SC) (31) Bijapaur 280004 Chincholi (SC) (42) Gulbarga 300005 Hadagalli (SC) (88) Bellary 260006 Mayakonda (SC)(108) Davanegere 280007 Gulbarga Rural (SC) (43) Gulbarga 310008 Chittapur (SC) (40) Gulbarga 240009 Aurad (SC) (52) Bidar 2400010 Shirahatti (SC) (65) Gadag 2200011 Haveri (SC) (84) Haveri 2100012 Hagaribommnahalli (SC) (89) Bellary 2500013 Holalkere (SC) (102) Chitradurga 2700014 Shimoga Rural (SC) (111) Shimoga 2300015 Mudhol (SC) (19) Bagalokot 2000016 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 7Banjara candidates were elected.

Banjara – 7 BJP –MLA -2008 –Assembly Election

SL.NO Name of the Assembly Constituency

BJP-MLA-Name Results

1 Gulbarga Rural (SC) (43) Mr.Revu Naik Belmagi Won2 Chittapur (SC) (40) Mr.Valmaki.Naik Won3 Aurad (SC) (52) Mr.Prabhu Chavan Won4 Hadagalli (SC) (88) Mr.Chandra.Naik Won5 Hagaribommnahalli (SC) (89) Mr.Nemaraj.Naik Won6 Shirahatti (SC) (65) Mr.Ramappa Lambani Won7 Mayakonda (SC)(108) Mr.Basavaraj.Naik Won8 Pavagada (SC) (137) Mr.Somla .Naik Lost