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'''Kalinga''' is a [[Caste system in India|caste]] residing in the [[Indian people|Indian]] [[States and union territories of India|states]] of [[Andhra Pradesh]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KVKKAAAAMAAJ&q=Kalingi|title=The Congress Party in Transition: A Study in Srikakulam District of Andhra Pradesh|last=Naidu|first=D. Suran|date=1991-01-01|publisher=National Book Organisation|isbn=9788185135649|pages=68,101,229|language=en|access-date=2018-05-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181214065809/https://books.google.com/books?id=KVKKAAAAMAAJ&q=Kalingi&dq=Kalingi&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiN2ajx66zbAhVJRo8KHbh2A5wQ6AEIWzAJ|archive-date=2018-12-14|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Odisha]]. They are primarily found in the erstwhile districts of [[Srikakulam]], Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, and are also found on the borderland between the districts of [[Ganjam]] and [[Visakhapatnam district|Visakhapatnam]].<ref name=":0" /> They were predominantly a priestly (vaishnavites) community and some of them were Agrarians.{{Sfn|Endowments Department Utsov-1990:| Special Souvenir. (1990). |India: The Department.}}<br />
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They are an endogamous population.<ref>{{Citation |last=MONITOR. |first=WHOLE SKY |title=URL. |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/796720402 |oclc=796720402 |access-date=2023-02-28}}</ref> The same class of people are known as the Kalinga in the country north of the [[River Vamsadhara|Vamsadhara river]]. There are four groups of Kalingas today, Buragam and Kinthali Kalingas. The other two unpopularly subgroups were Kalinga Brahmana with titles Panda, Patro, Sahoo, Panigrahi and Kalinga Raju.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Thurston|first=Edgar|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42993|title=Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 3 of 7|date=2013-06-21|others=K. Rangachari|language=English}}</ref> Both Kinthala and Buragam Kalingas are categorized as Other Backward Classes (OBCs) by the Government of Andhra Pradesh.<ref>{{Cite web |title=National Commission for Backward Classes |url=http://www.ncbc.nic.in/user_panel/GazetteResolution.aspx?Value=mPICjsL1aLvYBtdZSrP4uO+ploAhiJHMALWmHIwbzS8Il37YLL3Fb0FHfWDHzP7c |access-date=2022-01-24 |website=www.ncbc.nic.in}}</ref> Kinthala widows are permitted to remarry if they have no male heir, but Buragam widows are not.<ref name=":1" /><br />
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In the Telugu parts they are called Kalinga and in the Oriya country they are known as Kalinga too.<ref name=":1" /> The Kalinga wear the sacred thread. These Kalinga are not found south of [[Chipurupalle]] in the [[Vizianagaram]] district. Most of them are now found confined to the south of Ganjam district, but some are found scattered all over the Oriya country along the coast.<ref>{{Cite book|last=P.|first=Dozier, Edward|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/297175|title=Mountain arbiters; the changing life of a Philippine hill people|date=1966|publisher=University of Arizona Press|oclc=297175}}</ref><br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{URL|ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-ENG/ramdas.htm|Samapa Or Asokan Kalinga by Ramdas, G.}}<br />
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