{"id":32413,"date":"2025-04-19T16:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T11:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=32413"},"modified":"2025-05-28T12:25:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T06:55:26","slug":"mahadev-koli-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mahadev-koli-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahadev Koli Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Mahadev Koli Tribe Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>A recent study highlights the Mahadev Koli tribe\u2019s rich reservoir of medicinal and ecological knowledge, expertise that could be vital in strengthening global climate resilience.<\/p>\n<h2>About Mahadev Koli Tribe<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Mahadev Koli or Mahadeo Koli are a<strong> subcaste of the Koli community of Maharashtra and Goa<\/strong> states of India.<\/li>\n<li>The Mahadev Koli derive their name from their god, Mahadev, and live in the <strong>Mahadev hills of Maharashtra.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are found mostly in the Pune, Ahmednagar, and Nasik districts of Maharashtra.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They are classified as a <strong>Schedule Tribe.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They<strong> speak Marathi<\/strong> and <strong>use the Devanagari script.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>There are <strong>twenty-four exogamous clans<\/strong> among the Mahadev Koli, and they <strong>use their clan&#8217;s names as their surnames.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Their staple food consists of rice, nagli, varai, and wheat.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Occupation<\/strong>: Other than <strong>agriculture, <\/strong>they are also involved in <strong>cattle production, dairy<\/strong> and<strong> poultry farming, <\/strong>and <strong>wage labour <\/strong>as subsidiary occupations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beliefs:\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Most of the Mahadev Koli follow a number of <strong>Hindu traditions.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Members of <strong>each clan<\/strong> have their <strong>own deity.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>They <strong>possess extensive knowledge of local flora,<\/strong> utilizing over 50 native tree species for <strong>medicinal purposes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tanaji Malusare,<\/strong> a <strong>revered general in Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj&#8217;s army,<\/strong> hailed from <strong>this community.\u00a0<\/strong> His valor in the <strong>Battle of Sinhagad <\/strong>is legendary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/mahadev-koli-tribe-maharashtra-forest-knowledge-climate-change-9947470\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahadev Koli, also known as Mahadeo Koli, are a subcaste of the Koli community primarily found in the Indian states of Maharashtra and Goa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":42193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[170,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-32413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-mahadev-koli-tribe","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32413","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}