Puran (caste)

Caste group of East India

Puran (Bhanja Puran or Tamudia Puran) is a caste group of East India. They are primarily inhabitants of Odisha, West Bengal and Jharkhand.[1] They are currently considered as Other Backward Class,[2] but Jharkhand and Odisha government proposed to include in Scheduled Tribes list.[3][4]

Puran

Classification| OBC
Country| India
Original state| Odisha, West Bengal, Jharkhand

## References

[edit]

1. ^ "Youngest woman candidate on mission to improve life of poor". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
2. ^ Central OBC list of Odisha (PDF). ncbc.nic.in (Report).
3. ^ "Inclusion of "Puran" community in the list of STs in the State of Jharkhand" (PDF). National Commission for Scheduled Tribes.
4. ^ Empirical Ethnographic Study on the Social Status of PURAN (BHANJA PURAN and TAMUDIA PURAN) community of Mayurbhanj district of Odisha (PDF). repository.tribal.gov.in (Report). 2018. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 14, 2021.

## Further reading

[edit]

* Sinha, Surajit (1987). Tribal Polities and State Systems in Pre-colonial Eastern and North Eastern India. Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. ISBN 978-81-7074-014-8.

This article about an Indian ethnicity or social group is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template