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{{short description|Indian caste}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=May 2019}}
The '''Gamalla''' are an Indian [[caste]] whose traditional occupation was that of [[Toddy tapper|toddy tapping]]. They also produced and sold the [[arrack]].<ref name=Eaton2005p160>{{cite book |title=A Social History of the Deccan, 1300–1761: Eight Indian Lives |series=New Cambridge History of India |first=Richard M. |last=Eaton |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-521-25484-7 |page=160 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cGd2huLXEVYC |accessdate=2012-01-02}}</ref>

The Gamalla community of [[Andhra Pradesh]] and the then [[Madras State]] was classified by the [[Kalelkar Commission|First Backward Classes Commission]] as an [[Other Backward Class]] in India's [[positive discrimination]] system for socio-economically deprived communities. Those of [[Pondicherry|Puducherry]] were similarly classified by the [[Mandal Commission|Second Backward Classes Commission]], and in both cases they were listed with the [[Goud]]s and the Kalalis.<ref>{{cite book |title=Educational and social uplift of backward classes: at what cost and how? : Mandal Commission and after |first1=S. P. |last1=Agrawal |first2=J. C. |last2=Aggarwal |publisher=Concept Publishing Company |year=1991 |pages=138, 174 |isbn=978-81-7022-339-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=COcwoYRCYhcC |accessdate=2012-01-02}}</ref>

Richard Eaton{{who|date=March 2018}} believes that [[Papadu]], the [[social bandit]] who died in 1710, was a member of the Gamalla or Gavandla community.<ref name=Eaton2005p160 />

==References==
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[[Category:Social groups of Andhra Pradesh]]
[[Category:Brewing and distilling castes]]
[[Category:Social groups of Puducherry]]

Gamalla - Revision history

>Onel5969 at 13:17, 23 December 2020