Kori (caste)

Kori is an Indian caste, who were traditionally weavers.[1] Other names for this caste include Kamal, Kamalvansi, and Sankhawar.[2]

The Koris are classified as a Scheduled Caste in the states of Himachal Pradesh,[3] Uttar Pradesh[4][5] and Uttarakhand.[6] The name "Kori" derives from the word "kora" (clean cloth), which refers to their traditional occupation.[7]

Harold Gould noted in his research of the jajmani system in Uttar Pradesh that by the 1960s, all of the Koris in the villages studied by him had adopted roles as agricultural labourers, ploughmen, midwives, scavengers and sweepers because industrialisation had made their traditional occupation as weavers redundant.[8]

The Kori scheduled caste population in Uttar Pradesh at the 2011 census of India was 2,293,937.[9]

References
  1. Chandel, M. P. S. (1991). Democratic Transformation of a Social Class. Mittal Publications. p. 49. ISBN 978-81-7099-314-8.
  2. Badri Narayan (2006). Women Heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India: Culture, Identity and Politics. SAGE. p. 119. ISBN 978-81-321-0280-9.
  3. "List of Scheduled Castes". Government of Himachal Pradesh. Archived from the original on 19 June 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  4. Ashish Tripathi (19 February 2011). "UP government has clarified that kori caste is considered as scheduled caste". The Times of India.
  5. "Scheduled castes of Uttar Pradesh" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 March 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  6. "Scheduled castes of Uttarakhand" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 March 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  7. K. S. Singh (1998). India's Communities. Oxford University Press. p. 1822. ISBN 978-0-19-563354-2.
  8. Gould, Harold A. (January 1964). "A Jajmani System of North India: Its Structure, Magnitude, and Meaning". Ethnology. 3 (1): 12–41. JSTOR 4617554.
  9. "A-10 Individual Scheduled Caste Primary Census Abstract Data and its Appendix - Uttar Pradesh". Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
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