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'''Chaukalshi''' is an ethnic community of Maharashtra and Goa.<ref>{{cite book |last1=General |first1=India Office of the Registrar |title=Census of India, 1961: Maharashtra |date=1966 |publisher=Manager of Publications |pages=14, 15, 16, 58 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9cDUAAAAMAAJ&q=chaukalshi |accessdate=19 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |date=1989 |pages=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qHckAQAAMAAJ&q=chaukalshi |accessdate=19 June 2018|title=Survey Report on Village: Maharashtra. Agarsure }}</ref><ref name=i/><ref>{{Cite web| title=The Gazette of India | url=http://www.ncbc.nic.in/Writereaddata/note31635297173742607492.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140708082648/http://ncbc.nic.in/Writereaddata/note31635297173742607492.pdf | archive-date=2014-07-08}}</ref>
They are related to Panchkalshi community.<ref name="books.google.com">[https://books.google.com/books?id=miD5YO05jpUC&dq=Pachkalshis&pg=PA42] The origin of Bombay By Joseph Gerson Da Cunha</ref><ref>Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Kola'ba and Janjira, 1883</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=6jF4Q5jQWboC&dq=Pachkalshis&pg=PA289] Faces of Goa: a journey through the history and cultural revolution of Goa ... By Karin Larsen</ref><ref>Bombay: the cities within</ref> It is a local folk that they are one of the original tribes,{{Vague|reason=Original tribe of which parts?|date=September 2025}}{{Contradictory inline|reason=Possible contradiction. Can they be an original tribe if they migrated there in the 13th century?|date=September 2025}} who migrated to Bombay in 13th century AD with King Bhimdev.<ref name="books.google.com"/> Theyommunity is widespread mostly across konkan region from Palghar district to Ratnagiri district in Maharashtra.
Post independence of India, there were some efforts for unification of Chaukalshi & Panchkalshi tribes and a foundation named ''Kshatriya Parishad'' was founded in 1949 for the purpose.<ref name="i">{{cite book |last1=Kannan |first1=Chirayil Thumbayil |title=Intercaste and Inter-community Marriages in India |date=1963 |publisher=Allied Publishers |pages=50 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YdAnAAAAYAAJ&q=chaukalshi+KSHATRIYA |accessdate=19 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}{{Social groups of Maharashtra}} Category:Indian castes Category:History of Mumbai Category:Social groups of Maharashtra Category:Social groups of Goa Category:Other Backward Classes