Vaddera

Vaddera (alternatively Vadde, Waddera, Vadar) is a caste in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and some other states in India.

The Vaddera have traditionally been stone cutters but many have had to change to agricultural labouring. The effects of mechanisation, usually financed and run by higher caste groups, has caused this change and the government's insufficient recognition of the issues has led to them being designated as an Other Backward Class, instead of being designated as a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe. Despite there being sufficient evidence to consider Vadderas as a tribe (Edgar Thurston's "Castes and tribes of Southern India"), some states such as Andhra Pradesh and Telangana haven't made any attempt to designate them as either SCs or STs. [1]

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References

Berger, Peter; Heidemann, Frank, eds. (2013). The Modern Anthropology of India: Ethnography, Themes and Theory. Routledge. p. 19. ISBN 9781134061112.
Nair, P. M.; Sen, Sankar (2005). Trafficking In Women And Children In India. Institute of Social Sciences (New Delhi, India); National Human Rights Commission; UNIFEM South Asia Regional Office. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan. p. 351. ISBN 9788125028451.

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[1] Berger, Peter; Heidemann, Frank, eds. (2013). The Modern Anthropology of India: Ethnography, Themes and Theory. Routledge. p. 19. ISBN 9781134061112.

[2] Nair, P. M.; Sen, Sankar (2005). Trafficking In Women And Children In India. Institute of Social Sciences (New Delhi, India); National Human Rights Commission; UNIFEM South Asia Regional Office. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan. p. 351. ISBN 9788125028451.