Pardhi

Widely found surnames among them include Chauhan (Chavan), Rathod and Solanki.

[citation needed] According to the 1901 census the total number of Pardhi population was 12,214 of which 6,320 men and 5,894 women.

During the same period in the state of Madhya Pradesh in the cities of Bhopal, Raisen and Sehore the total population of Pardhis were 1831.

[citation needed] They sacrifice a sheep or a goat to please the Kuldevis which is then distributed among the villagers.

[citation needed] In 2018, Dr. Mahendra Kumar Mishra, a noted tribal folklorist, documented the Pardhi Ramkatha from a noted Singer Smt Kumari Devi from Belsonda village of Mahasamund District of Chhattisgarh.

Besides, they have abundant knowledge of forest ecology culture and the local technology represented in their first narratives.

About a hundred and fifty tribes were branded as criminal, and the police were given sweeping powers to arrest them and watch over their movements.

Volume XII of the 1880 Bombay Presidency Gazette has further comments about the group stating: "They are still fond of hunting and poaching and have not got rid of their turn for thieving....

The Phase Pardhi [a sub-tribe] is nearly always ragged and dirty, walking with a sneaking gait."

However this has not changed the public perception of the tribe, and they continue to be stigmatized and live as outcasts, further aggravating their economic hardships.

[citation needed] Public pressure often prevents the nomadic community from settling in villages.

most of the settled Pardhis practice agriculture due to the strict imposition of the ban on hunting and poaching.

A major portion of the child beggars of Mumbai belong to the Pardhi community.