Volume : VIII, Issue : V, May - 2019

REVIEW OF LITERATURE ON SCHEDULED CASTES AND BHOVI COMMUNITY

Dr. Kirthi F. Chapparamani

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In this article a comprehensive review of literature on Scheduled castes and Bhovi Community is mentioned below. However, it was only in the year 1950 separate list was drawn up for ‘Castes’ and ‘Tribes’, which was later modified in 1956. The ‘Caste’ and ‘Tribes’ included in the ‘Schedule’ commonly come to be known as ‘Scheduled Castes’ and ‘Scheduled Tribes’ respectively. Bhovi or earlier they were known as Waddars were a wandering tribe and had unsettled life or called as nomadic tribe. Bhovi or Waddars as per Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes modification Order (1956), Bhovis are listed in the list of Scheduled Castes throughout Karnataka. There are eight such castes who form the bulk of the Scheduled Caste population in the Karnataka State, and account for 80.91% of the total Scheduled Caste population in the state. Eight Scheduled Castes are: are, Adi–Karnataka, Adi–Dravida, Bhovi, Banjara or Lambani, Bhambi group, Holeya or Holer, Holeya and Madiga. Many of the studies have been conducted on Scheduled Castes and Waddars or Bhovi regarding this community several Sociologists, anthropologists, scholars and authors have stated their perspectives regarding Scheduled Castes and Bhovi Community.

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REVIEW OF LITERATURE ON SCHEDULED CASTES AND BHOVI COMMUNITY, Dr. Kirthi F. Chapparamani INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-5 | May-2019

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