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{{Infobox ethnic group
|group= Chhipa
|image=‘Chipi (or chimba), a cloth printer - Tashrih al-aqvam (1825), f.260v - BL Add. 27255.jpg
|caption=Chhipa, a cloth printer from ''Tashrih al-aqvam'' (1825)
|popplace = India and Pakistan
|langs = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]], [[Kutchi language|Kutchi]] and [[Marwari language|Marwari]]
|rels= [[Hinduism]], [[Islam]]
|related= [[Chhimba]]
}}
'''Chhipi''' (alternatively called '''Chhipa'''/'''Chimpa''') is a caste of people with ancestral roots tracing back to India.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=99c-AQAAIAAJ&q=Chhipi|title=People of India: Delhi|author=K.S. Singh|page=138|quote="The Chhipi are commonly known as Chhipil , Chhipa or Chhimba in northern India and Raugari in Maharashtra . The word chhipi is derived from chhapna , meaning to print"|year=1996|isbn=9788173040962 }}</ref> They are found in the states of [[Gujarat]], [[Rajasthan]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], [[Haryana]], [[Delhi]], [[Uttar Pradesh]] of India.<ref name=autogenerated1>People of India Gujarat Volume XXI Part Three edited by R.B Lal, P.B.S.V Padmanabham, G Krishnan & M Azeez Mohideen pages 1181-1184</ref> Chhipa are also found in Pakistan.

==History==
[[File:Textildruckmodel - Indien um 1900.jpg|right|thumb|A traditional stencil used to block print fabrics]]

According to a legend, Chhipa were originally a warrior class or Kshatriya Rajput.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gahlot |first1=Sukhvir Singh |last2=Dhar |first2=Banshi |title=Castes and Tribes of Rajasthan |date=1989 |publisher=Jain Brothers |isbn=978-81-85287-00-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DuAtAAAAMAAJ&q=chhipa%20rajput |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Mohammada |first1=Malika |title=The Foundations of the Composite Culture in India |date=2007 |publisher=Aakar Books |isbn=978-81-89833-18-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dwzbYvQszf4C&dq=chhipa+rajput&pg=PA386 |language=en}}</ref> They used to have a similar lifestyle like a Rajput in which
Physical activities such as hunting, and warfare were involved. It is said that once, according to the Hindu epic [[Mahabharata]], [[Lord Parshuram]]
While killing all the Kshatriyas to avenge their father, two brothers from the Rajput clan took refuge in a temple.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Neuman |first1=Daniel M. |last2=Chaudhuri |first2=Shubha |last3=Kothari |first3=Komal |title=Bards, Ballads and Boundaries: An Ethnographic Atlas of Music Traditions in West Rajasthan |date=2005 |publisher=Seagull |isbn=978-1-905422-07-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b30HAQAAMAAJ&q=chhipa+rajput |language=en}}</ref> one of the presiding deities
hid behind the statue And it got its name from the literal 'hide' for the Hindi verb 'Chhipa'. Later Rajput boy printed cloth
Or adopted the profession of dyer and he was not originally a Kshatriya. The genealogy of this Rajput child is the 'Chhipa's of today.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Das |first1=Nava Kishor |title=Culture, Religion, and Philosophy: Critical Studies in Syncretism and Inter-faith Harmony |date=2003 |publisher=Rawat Publications |isbn=978-81-7033-820-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R5fXAAAAMAAJ&q=chhipa+rajput |language=en}}</ref>

According to another belief The word ''chhipa'' is derived from the [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] word ''chhapa'', which means to print. The community was originally found in [[Nagaur]] in [[Rajasthan]]. After their settlement in Rajasthan and Gujarat, the community took up the occupation of dyeing and printing clothes. The community speak [[Marwari language|Marwari]], and are found mainly in Rajasthan and in north Gujarat, in the districts of [[Ahmedabad district|Ahmedabad]], Nadiad, [[Baroda]] and [[Bharuch District|Bharuch]]. Most Chhipa also speak Gujarati. They are converted from Cloth Printer Clan of [[Khatri]] Community.<ref name=autogenerated1 />

==Present circumstances==
===India===
The Chhipa community is divided into a number of clans, known as {{transl|gu|ataks}}, the main ones being the Rao, Tak, Bhati, Doera, Chauhan, and Molani. Each of these clans are of equal status, and intermarry. But the community not has a marked preference for cross cousin and parallel cousin marriages.<ref name=autogenerated1 />

The community is still mainly involved in its traditional occupation of dyeing and printing clothes. Many in the community have taken up trade, or are employed in the local textile mills.<ref name=autogenerated1 />

The community is classified as an [[Other Backward Classes|OBC caste]] in the Indian states of [[Haryana]], [[Delhi]], [[Rajasthan]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], [[Uttar Pradesh]].<ref>[http://haryanascbc.gov.in/information/list-of-backward-classes Haryana OBC list]</ref><ref>[http://ncbc.nic.in/Writereaddata/cl/delhi.pdf Delhi OBC list]</ref><ref>[https://sje.rajasthan.gov.in/Default.aspx?PageID=67 Rajasthan OBC list]</ref><ref>[http://www.bcmbcmw.tn.gov.in/obc/faq/madhyapradesh.pdf Madhya Pradesh Obc list]</ref><ref>[http://www.ncbc.nic.in/user_panel/GazetteResolution.aspx?Value=mPICjsL1aLvxbegUDuc3MN4eB5E3Ecc1drRPAf1qXQ%2Bl0IqIfhjN1xHrf4i2h5g0 UP OBC list]</ref>

===Pakistan===
Chhipa community is settled in [[Karachi]], [[Sindh]], Pakistan.

==See also==
* [[Muslim Chhipi]]
* [[Block printing]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121021014022/http://www.folkartmarket.org/artists/bhagwati-lal-chhipa/ Chhipa block printing in Rajasthan]
* [http://www.marustali.net/doc/racost.html Kathari block printing from 1895]

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[[Category:Tribes of Kutch]]
[[Category:Muslim communities of Gujarat]]
[[Category:Muslim communities of Rajasthan]]
[[Category:Muhajir communities]]
[[Category:Textile arts of India]]
[[Category:Indian castes]]
[[Category:Social groups of Rajasthan]]
[[Category:Social groups of Madhya Pradesh]]
[[Category:Social groups of Haryana]]
[[Category:Social groups of Delhi]]
[[Category:Social groups of Uttar Pradesh]]

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Ajay Kumar at 14:37, 23 July 2023