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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Hinduized section of Santal tribe}}<br />
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{{Infobox caste<br />
|caste_name =Deswali Majhi<br />
|caste_name_in_local=ᱫᱮᱥᱣᱟᱞᱤ ᱢᱟᱺᱡᱷᱤ<br/>দেস্বালি মাঝি<br />
|languages =[[Santali language|Santali]], [[Bengali language|Bengali]], [[Hindi]] <br />
|family_names =Majhi<br />
|religions =[[Hinduism]]<br />
|ethnicity =[[Santal people|Santal]]<br />
|populated_states =[[Jharkhand]], [[West Bengal]]}}<br />
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'''Deswali Majhi''' is a Hinduized section of [[Santal people|Santal]] tribe,<ref name="Purulia1985">{{Cite book |last=Bhattacharya |first=Birendra Ku |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KSBuAAAAMAAJ |title=West Bengal District Gazetteers: Puruliya |publisher=State editor, West Bengal District Gazetteers |year=1985 |pages=130–131 |language=en |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.18270 |archive-date=31 Oct 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> distributed in western region of West Bengal and eastern region of Jharkhand in India. The community took shape after the great [[Santhal rebellion|Santal rebellion]] (1855–56) by adoption of [[Hinduism]] due to oppression faced as a Santal by the Britishers and their proximity to the [[Bengalis|Bengali]] people.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Singh |first1=K. S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jw9uAAAAMAAJ |title=India's Communities |last2=India |first2=Anthropological Survey of |date=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-563354-2 |pages=785–832 |language=en |chapter=Deswali Majhi}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=19 Dec 2010 |others=REPRESENTATION REGARDING INCLUSION OF ‘DESWALI ’ COMMUNITY OF WEST BENGAL IN THE LIST OF SCHEDULED TRIBES |title=COMMITTEE ON PETITIONS (THIRTEENTH LOK SABHA) – TWELFTH REPORT |url=https://eparlib.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/784178/1/13_Petitions_12.pdf |access-date=14 April 2022 |website=Parliament digital library, India}}</ref><ref>{{multiref2|{{Cite book |editor-last2=Pfeffer |editor-first2=Georg |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2-wsjaChM_QC |title=Contemporary Society: Tribal Studies |editor-last1=Behera |editor-first1=Deepak Kumar |date=1997 |volume=7 |last1=Bhowmick |first1=Pradip |last2=Jana |first2=Shyamal |chapter=Community in search of a new identity : The Santals of West Bengal |publisher=Concept Publishing Company |isbn=978-81-8069-534-6 |language=en |pages=94–103 }}<br />
|{{Cite journal |last1=Bhowmick |first1=Pradip |last2=Jana |first2=Shyamal |date=2004-12-17 |title=Community in search of a new identity : The Santals of West Bengal |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320402629 |via=[[ResearchGate]]}}}}</ref><br />
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{{blockquote|Tribals known as Deswali Manjhis are those Santhals who, before the current tendency among Santhals to regard themselves as Hindus, came within the Hindu fold. According to [[H. H. Risley]], “Deswali Manjhis are a subtribe of Santhals in the south of [[Manbhum|Manbhoom]], who employ Brahmans (for officiating in religious observances) and have adopted portions of Hindu rituals”.|source=''West Bengal District Gazetteers : Puruliya (1985)'', p. 130}}<br />
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[[Category:Social groups of Jharkhand]]<br />
[[Category:Social groups of West Bengal]]<br />
[[Category:Indian castes]]<br />
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[[Category:Hindu communities]]<br />
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