{"id":30481,"date":"2025-03-02T01:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T20:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30481"},"modified":"2025-04-11T07:49:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T02:19:04","slug":"banjara-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/banjara-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Banjara Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Banjara Community Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, the Lok Sabha Speaker addressed the members of Banjara community at the 286th birth anniversary celebration of Sant Sewalal Maharaja at Dr Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi.<\/p>\n<h2>About Banjara Community<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Banjara is made of various groups found throughout India and most of them are found in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka states in South India.<\/li>\n<li>This community settled across the country with different names, have permanently abandoned their nomadic lifestyle and settled in their settlements called Tandas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language:<\/strong> They speak <strong>Gor Boli<\/strong> also called <strong>Lambadi<\/strong> which belongs to the Indo-Aryan Group of Languages. Lambadi has no script.<\/li>\n<li>The majority of Banjara in India are Hindu; some have combined <strong>Hindu practices with their own animistic beliefs.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Culture of Banjara Community<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Banjara people celebrate the <strong>festival of Teej<\/strong> during Shravanam (in the month of august). In this festival young unmarried Banjara girls pray for a good groom.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fire dance and Chari<\/strong> are the traditional dance forms of the banjara people.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tattoos are very common<\/strong> in the banjara community. Like the banjara costume, Tattoo also express their personal style, identity and family connection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Who is Santh Sevalal Maharaj?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>He is considered a <strong>social reformer<\/strong> and spiritual teacher of the Banjara community.<\/li>\n<li>He travelled across the country with<strong> his Ladeniya Troup<\/strong> to serve especially the forest dwellers and nomadic tribes.<\/li>\n<li>Due to his extraordinary knowledge, excellent skills and spiritual background in Ayurveda and Naturopathy, he was able to dispel and eradicate myths and superstitions prevalent in the tribal communities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Banjara Community FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong> Who is called Banjaras?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> The Banjaras are a nomadic group of people from Afghanistan to the state of Rajasthan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong> What is the occupation of Banjara?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> The Banjara people have a variety of occupations, including agriculture, trade, and handicrafts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong> Who is the saint of Banjara community?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> Santh Sevalal Maharaj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2107150#:~:text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banjara Community is made of various groups found throughout India and most of them are found in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka states in South India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}