# Ramoshi

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{{Short description|Indian community}}
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{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2018}}
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{{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](/source/New_Delhi), [India](/source/India) |pages=Ch. 56, Page: 173: Berads, a race of aboriginal Kanarese, also called [Dhed](/source/Dhed)s, and regarded as one of the lowest in the scale of [Hindu](/source/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](/source/Maharashtra), [Madhya Pradesh](/source/Madhya_Pradesh), and [Karnataka](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Denotified_Tribes) under the [Criminal Tribes Act](/source/Criminal_Tribes_Act)s 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](/source/Hindus) 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==
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==Further reading==
* ''Precolonial India in Practice'', Cynthia Talbot, [Oxford University Press](/source/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

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