>Arjayay at 14:52, 2 October 2021

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| group = Kirar/Kirad/Dhakar/Dhakad
| popplace = India
| langs = • [[Hindi language|Hindi]] • [[Braj bhasha]] •[[Hadoti]]
| rels = • [[Hinduism]]
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}}

'''Dhakar''' is a [[Hindu]] small landlord and agricultural peasant caste in the Indian state of [[Rajasthan]] and [[Madhya Pradesh]]
<ref>{{Cite web |url = http://www.bcwelfare.mp.nic.in/Public/Pages/OBCCastList.aspx | website = http://www.bcwelfare.mp.nic.in | title = OBC Cast List }}</ref>
<ref>{{Cite book|last=Gupta|first=Giri Raj|title=Marriage, Religion, and Society: Pattern of Change in an Indian Village|publisher=Wiley|year=1973|pages=28}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Sharma|first=Brij Kishore|title=Peasant Movements in Rajasthan, 1920-1949|publisher=Pointer Publishers|year=1990|pages=83, 98}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Singh|first=C. S. K.|title=The Sound of Drums: Tribal Movement in Rajasthan, 1881-1947|publisher=Manak Publications|year=1995|pages=116, 163}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Das|first=Nava Kishor|title=Culture, Religion, and Philosophy: Critical Studies in Syncretism and Inter-faith Harmony|publisher=Rawat Publications|year=2003|pages=285}}</ref>

''Dharkat'' or '''Dhakar''' was an important merchant community in Rajasthan mentioned in several inscriptions. They are now extinct in Rajasthan, but survive as a small Jain community in Vidarbha region.<ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/JAINISM_IN_RAJASTHAN/RGF8XltxgPEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Dharkata&dq=Dharkata&printsec=frontcover Jainism in Rajasthan, Kailash Chand Jain, 1963, p. 108]</ref><ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Kha%E1%B9%87%E1%B8%8Delav%C4%81la_Jaina_sam%C4%81ja_k%C4%81_vr%CC%A5/4CAbAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%9C+%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%A8&dq=%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%9C+%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%A8&printsec=frontcover Khaṇḍelavāla Jaina samāja kā vr̥had itihāsa Kastoor Chand Kasliwal · 1989 p. 48]</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:Social groups of Madhya Pradesh]]
[[Category:Social groups of Rajasthan]]
[[Category:Social groups of Chhattisgarh]]

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>Arjayay at 14:52, 2 October 2021