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Dalera

Hindu caste

Hindu caste

The Dalera, sometimes pronounced as Dalere, is a Hindu caste found in North India. They claim lineage from union between a Badgujar Rajput male and Kahar female. The present status of this caste as per Uttar Pradesh government is Semi-nomadic Denotified Tribe sometimes called Vimukt Jati. This particular caste is neither OBC, SC nor ST as per state list.

Occupation

The primary occupation of the caste was according to the 1901 Census of India was Basketmakingand day-labouring

Geographical Location

They are found almost entirely in Bareilly District

Social Status

There social positioning in the Hindu caste system is generally considered low

Government Status

The Dalera were classified as a Criminal Tribe under the Criminal Tribes Act in a case titled "Queen-Empress vs Hori on 27 May, 1899" it was declared that the accused named Hori could not be sent to a reformatory school as he was from a tribe declared ineligible to be done so under "Rule 4 of the rules made by the Local Government and published at pages 167, 168 of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh Government Gazette, Part VI, 3rd July 1897" The Dalera themselves are neither Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Caste or Other Backward Caste

References

References

  1. People of India Uttar Pradesh Volume XLII Part One edited by A Hasan & J C Das pages 407 to 411 Manohar Publications
  2. "Their own tradition is that they spring from an alliance between a Gujar on the male side and a woman of the Dhimar caste" in Nevill, H. R. (1911). Bareilly: A Gazetteer, being Volume XIII of the District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (p. 198). Allahabad: Government Press.
  3. [https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Census_of_India_1901/glJFAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA231&printsec=frontcover Census of India Volume 16, Issue 1, 1901]. (1902). India: Printed at the Government central Press. p231
  4. Haikerwala, B.S. [https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.01813/page/151/mode/2up?q=dalera Economic And Social Aspect of Crime in India]. George Allen And Unwin Limited. p.151
  5. (Census of India 1901 Volume XVI, Issue I. p.231)
  6. Blunt, E. (2010). [https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/The_Caste_System_of_Northern_India/NenzO2grTOMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=dalera&pg=PA159&printsec=frontcover The Caste System of Northern India]. Isha Books. p.159
  7. [https://indiankanoon.org/doc/236898/ Queen-Empress v. Hori, (1899)]. Indian Law Reports, Allahabad Series, 21, 391.
  8. Lok Sabha Secretariat. (1982). [https://eparlib.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/2707976/1/07_VIII_24-03-1982_p64_p65_u4937.pdf Dalera Caste of Uttar Pradesh] [Parliamentary Question And Answers]. Government of India. https://eparlib.nic.in/handle/123456789/2707976
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