[7][8] The people of this community mainly live in Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal.

They migrated from places like Dhalbhum, Shikharbhum, and Tungabhum to the Bengal border village of Handibhanga, from where they scattered to the eastern part of the district.

[17] However, the Rujwars were predominantly recorded as 159,698 in total during the 1901 census, with significant numbers in Goya (63,189), Manbhum (32,166), and the Chota Nagpur tributary states (21,686).

[20][21] As the 1931 Mayurbhanj state census noted that; The Rajuars are a low cultivating caste of Bihar and Chotanagpur, who are probably an offshoot of Bhuinyas.

Again those groups are divided into some exogenous clans such as Nageswar (Nag), Kachap (Kachim), Sankhua (Sankh), Champa, Mukut (Mod), Sinha and Kashyapa.