{{Short description|Indian community}} {{pp-extended|small=yes}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2018}} {{Use Indian English|date=November 2018}}
{{Infobox ethnic group | popplace = Maharashtra • Madhya Pradesh • Karnataka | religions = Hinduism }}
The '''Ramoshi'''<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Sarkar |first=Jadunath |url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.98678 |title=History Of Aurangzib, vol.5 |year=1952 |location=New Delhi, India |pages=Ch. 56, Page: 173: Berads, a race of aboriginal Kanarese, also called Dheds, and regarded as one of the lowest in the scale of Hindu castes. They are a virile and hardy people, not much advanced from savagery, but at the same time not toned down like the over-refined upper castes of Hindu society. They eat mutton, beef, pork, domestic fowls, etc. |language=en}}</ref> are an Indian community found largely in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, and Karnataka.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sarkar|first=jadunath|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.98678|title=History Of Aurangzib, vol.5|date=1952|pages=CH.56 Page 173}}</ref> They are classified in the Other Backward Class category<ref>{{cite report|title=Central list of OBC's|url= https://www.ncbc.nic.in/User_Panel/GazetteResolution.aspx?Value=mPICjsL1aLsN%2bCCWgSsv8%2buAyaBuDqnRoSLrvXbEEJTY%2by0eazrlMjhC5BUvBdUU}}</ref> by the government of India.
==History== The Ramoshi in Maharashtra were earlier known as Vedan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ambedkar.org/jamanadas/CriminalTribes.htm |title=Criminal Tribes of India |author=Dr. K. Jamanadas |website=Ambedkar.org |access-date=2015-12-10}}</ref>
They were then classified as a criminal tribe under the Criminal Tribes Acts of the Raj.<ref>{{cite book| last = Bates| first = Crispin| editor-last = Robb| editor-first = Peter| title = The Concept of Race in South Asia| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Ef9tAAAAMAAJ| access-date = 2011-12-01| year = 1995| publisher = Oxford University Press| location = Delhi| isbn = 978-0-19-563767-0| page = 227| chapter = Race, Caste and Tribe in Central India: the early origins of Indian anthropometry }}</ref>
==Culture== They belong to the Hindu section while some are Vaishanavas.{{clarification needed|date=November 2022|reason="belong to the Hindu section while some are Vaishanavas" is not clear (to me, at least)}}<ref name="bhanu ">''People of India: Maharashtra, Volume 3'', Kumar Suresh Singh, B. V. Bhanu, Anthropological Survey of India 2004, {{ISBN|9788179911020}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== * ''Precolonial India in Practice'', Cynthia Talbot, Oxford University Press, 2001, {{ISBN|978-0195136616}}
==External links== * [http://www.odi.org.uk/livelihoodoptions/papers/wp179.pdf#search='caste%2C%20class%2C%20and%20social%20articulation' Caste & Class Articulation of Andhra Pradesh] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060720172106/http://www.odi.org.uk/Livelihoodoptions/papers/wp179.pdf#search='caste%2C%20class%2C%20and%20social%20articulation' |date=20 July 2006 }} {{Social groups of Maharashtra}}
Category:Denotified tribes of India Category:Indian castes Category:Social groups of Karnataka Category:Social groups of Maharashtra Category:Scheduled Tribes of Karnataka