The Parahiya are a Hindu caste found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in North India.
The name Parahiya is said to mean in the Gondi language the burners of the forest because they practice slash and burn agriculture.
[1] The habitat of most of the Parhiya is the hilly, undulating and extremely forested southern part of Sonbhadra district, at the foot of the Vindhya mountains.
They are endogamous and divided into a number of exogamous clans known as kuris, of which the main ones are the Bengeha, Bhaloa, Bhania, Bhusan, Gohawa, Gurgur, Monnoor and Sira.
[2] As of 2017, this designation applies only in Sonbhadra district,[3] as it also did at the time of the 2011 Census of India when the Parahiya Scheduled Caste population in Uttar Pradesh was 2446.