Gowari
Gowari is an Indian caste of cattle herdsmen, predominantly living in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. [1] [2]
Distribution
The maximum concentration of their population is in the districts of Nagpur, Chandrapur, Wardha , Gadchiroli, Bhandara ,and Gondia[3] where they are around 3,50,000 to 4,00,000.
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
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- ^ [2]
- ^ "सर्व्हर दोष !" (PDF). Maharashtra.gov.in. Retrieved 2015-03-06.
- ^ [3] Archived August 16, 2010, at the Wayback Machine