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The '''Paramara''' (also known as '''Panwar''', '''Punwar''' and '''Parmar''') are a |
The '''Paramara''' (also known as '''Panwar''', '''Punwar''' and '''Parmar''') are a clan in North India, who claim descent from the mythological [[Agnivansha]] dynasty and are one of the [[Gurjar]] lineages,<ref>Glory that was Gujardesha by prof KM Munshi</ref> some of which joined [[Rajput]]s..<ref name="Unnithan-Kumar1997">{{cite book | author=Maya Unnithan-Kumar | title=Identity, Gender, and Poverty: New Perspectives on Caste Nd Tribe in Rajasthan | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=b9ktWLud0oIC&pg=PA135 | accessdate=11 January 2013 | year=1997 | publisher=Berghahn Books | isbn=978-1-57181-918-5 | page=135 }}</ref> |
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== Ethnographic classification == |
== Ethnographic classification == |
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[[Denzil Ibbetson]], an administrator of the [[British Raj]], classified the Paramara as a tribe rather than as a [[Caste in India|caste]]. He believed, like Nesfield, that the society of the [[Northwest Frontier Province]]s and [[Punjab]] in [[British India]] did not permit the rigid imposition of an administratively-defined caste construct as his colleague, [[H. H. Risley]] preferred. According to Ibbetson, society in Punjab was less governed by [[Brahmanical]] ideas of caste, based on [[Varna (Hinduism)|varna]], and instead was more open and fluid. Tribes, which he considered to be kin-based groups that dominated small areas, were the dominant feature of rural life. Caste designators, such as [[Jat]] and Rajput, were status-based titles to which any tribe that rose to social prominence could lay a claim, and which could be dismissed by their peers if they declined. Susan Bayly, a modern [[anthropologist]], considers him to have had "a high degree of accuracy in his observations of Punjab society ... [I]n his writings we really do see the beginnings of modern, regionally based Indian anthropology.".<ref>{{cite book |title=Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age |first=Susan |last=Bayly |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2001 |isbn=9780521798426 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HbAjKR_iHogC&pg=PA139 |pages=139–141}}</ref> |
[[Denzil Ibbetson]], an administrator of the [[British Raj]], classified the Paramara as a tribe rather than as a [[Caste in India|caste]]. He believed, like Nesfield, that the society of the [[Northwest Frontier Province]]s and [[Punjab]] in [[British India]] did not permit the rigid imposition of an administratively-defined caste construct as his colleague, [[H. H. Risley]] preferred. According to Ibbetson, society in Punjab was less governed by [[Brahmanical]] ideas of caste, based on [[Varna (Hinduism)|varna]], and instead was more open and fluid. Tribes, which he considered to be kin-based groups that dominated small areas, were the dominant feature of rural life. Caste designators, such as [[Jat]] and Rajput, were status-based titles to which any tribe that rose to social prominence could lay a claim, and which could be dismissed by their peers if they declined. Susan Bayly, a modern [[anthropologist]], considers him to have had "a high degree of accuracy in his observations of Punjab society ... [I]n his writings we really do see the beginnings of modern, regionally based Indian anthropology.".<ref>{{cite book |title=Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age |first=Susan |last=Bayly |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2001 |isbn=9780521798426 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HbAjKR_iHogC&pg=PA139 |pages=139–141}}</ref> |
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The Paramara (also known as Panwar, Punwar and Parmar) are a clan in North India, who claim descent from the mythological Agnivansha dynasty and are one of the Gurjar lineages,[1] some of which joined Rajputs..[2]
Ethnographic classification
Denzil Ibbetson, an administrator of the British Raj, classified the Paramara as a tribe rather than as a caste. He believed, like Nesfield, that the society of the Northwest Frontier Provinces and Punjab in British India did not permit the rigid imposition of an administratively-defined caste construct as his colleague, H. H. Risley preferred. According to Ibbetson, society in Punjab was less governed by Brahmanical ideas of caste, based on varna, and instead was more open and fluid. Tribes, which he considered to be kin-based groups that dominated small areas, were the dominant feature of rural life. Caste designators, such as Jat and Rajput, were status-based titles to which any tribe that rose to social prominence could lay a claim, and which could be dismissed by their peers if they declined. Susan Bayly, a modern anthropologist, considers him to have had "a high degree of accuracy in his observations of Punjab society ... [I]n his writings we really do see the beginnings of modern, regionally based Indian anthropology.".[3]
See also
References
- ^ Glory that was Gujardesha by prof KM Munshi
- ^ Maya Unnithan-Kumar (1997). Identity, Gender, and Poverty: New Perspectives on Caste Nd Tribe in Rajasthan. Berghahn Books. p. 135. ISBN 978-1-57181-918-5. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
- ^ Bayly, Susan (2001). Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age. Cambridge University Press. pp. 139–141. ISBN 9780521798426.