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May 27, 2017 · The district’s population is 40 percent Muslim, 25 percent Dalit, while 10 percent belongs to the priviledged Thakur or Kshatriya castes. In 2013, the neighbouring Muzaffarnagar district ...
May 17, 2017 · Rajesh—a Dalit resident whose brother is the sarpanch—and a group of elders who I met in the Thakur neighbourhood, told me that Shabbirpur is comprised primarily of three communities: Thakurs, who belong to the Rajput caste and constitute 60 percent of the village population; Dalits, who belong to the Chamar scheduled caste and constitute around 30 percent; and Kashyaps, who constitute 5 percent.
The spiral of violence started from Shabbirpur village, home to around 600 Dalits and over 900 Thakurs. Dalit victims of the clashes say upper caste Thakurs prevented them from installing a statue ...
Aug 17, 2020 · The Dalits had filed an FIR against the Thakur men on 13 July, and in retaliation the Thakurs burnt the Dalits’ houses. Sunil Kumar, a resident of the village’s Dalit locality, told me that around 9.30 am on 11 July, his sister Satyavati, aunt, wife and children were returning from a visit to a temple.
- The current flare-up began on May 5 when Dalits objected to a procession carried out by Thakurs and Rajputs to commemorate 16th century king Maharana Pratap.
- Earlier this month, A BJP rally held to mark Dalit icon BR Ambedkar’s birth anniversary in Sadak Dudhali village near Saharanpur sparked angry protests from locals.
- In July 2014, Saharanpur was rocked by pitched battles between the Sikh and Muslim communities over a property dispute. Three were killed, more than 50 injured and police had to issue shoot-at-sight orders to control mobs.
- The district’s has 40% Muslim population, and 22% Dalits. Experts say this makes it more susceptible to both caste and communal violence. The current spell of violence is seen by many as an effort to gain traction ahead of local polls in two months.
Rajput (from Sanskrit rājaputra meaning "son of a king"), also called Thakur, [ 5 ] is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating from the northern part of the Indian subcontinent. The term Rajput covers various patrilineal clans historically ...
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Oct 9, 2020 · The Thakur community has dominated the social and political landscape of northern India in general and UP in particular. In terms of sheer numbers, the caste composition of the village where the incident took place is an indication of the same. Out of the 600 families living in the village, nearly half are Thakurs, another 100 happen to be ...
