Gowari
Gowari is an Indian caste of cattle herdsmen, predominantly living in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.[1][dead link]
Despite occasional errors in the literature, they do not speak a distinct language.[2]
Distribution
The maximum concentration of their population is in the Maharashtra districts of Nagpur, Chandrapur, Wardha, Gadchiroli, Bhandara, and Gondia[3] where they are around 350,000 to 400,000.
The maximum concentration of their population is in the Madhya Pradesh districts of Chhindwara, Balaghat, Seoni, and Mandla.
Gowari stampede
There was a stampede during a protest in Nagpur on 23 November 1994 in which 114 people from the Gowari community were killed and more than 500 were injured.
A monument, the Gowari Shaheed Smarak, has been built in Nagpur near Zero Milestone,[4] (the geographical centre of India) to commemorate those who died in this tragedy.
See also
References
- ^ [1]
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Gowlan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ "सर्व्हर दोष !" (PDF). Maharashtra.gov.in. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ^ [2] Archived 16 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine