The Pateliya (Patelia) are a
scheduled tribe found in the Indian states of
Gujarat
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,
Madhya Pradesh
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,
Rajasthan
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and some parts of
Maharashtra
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and
Karnataka
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. Pateliya is considered a part of Bhil tribe.
History
The term 'Pateliya' has been derived from the term Patel which locally means 'headman'.
The Pateliya are mostly distributed in
Dahod
Dahod is a city on the banks of the Dudhimati River in Dahod District in the State of Gujarat, India. It is said that it has taken its name from Saint Dadhichi, who had an Ashram on the bank of Dudhumati river. This city is known for being t ...
,
Mahisagar,
Panchmahal
Panchmahal, also rendered as Panch Mahal, is a district in the eastern portion of Gujarat State western India. ''Panch-mahal'' means "five tehsils/talukas" (5 sub-divisions), and refers to the five sub-divisions that were transferred by the Mahar ...
districts of
Gujarat
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and
Jhabua
Jhabua is a town and a municipality in Jhabua district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It is the administrative headquarters of Jhabua District.
Recently the district has got international recognition because of its endemic hen species ...
,
Dhar
Dhar is a city located in Dhar district of the Malwa region in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. The city is the administrative headquarters of the Dhar district. Before Indian independence from Great Britain, it was the capital of the Dhar ...
,
Indore
Indore (; ISO 15919, ISO: , ) is the largest and most populous Cities in India, city in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The commercial capital of the state, it has been declared as the List of cleanest cities in India, cleanest city of In ...
,
Dewas
Dewas is a city in the Malwa region of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The municipality was formerly the seat of two 15-Gun Salute state princely states during the British Raj, Dewas Junior state and Dewas Senior state, ruled by the Pa ...
,
Guna
Guna may refer to:
People
* Guna people, Indigenous peoples of Panama and Colombia
Philosophy
* Guṇa, a Hindu philosophical concept
* Guṇa (Jainism), a philosophical concept
Places
* Guna district, in Madhya Pradesh, India
** Guna, Indi ...
districts of
Madhya Pradesh
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. They speak
Bhili or
Malvi among themselves and
Hindi
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with others.
Traditional occupation of the Pateliya is
agriculture
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...
. They are in Variety of
governmental services on higher posts. Apart from agriculture and services, several of them also work as wage
labourers
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.
Agriculture
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...
is an important source of earning.
Clans and Subdivisions
The community is divided into several exogamous clans, including Hangaria, Mera, Gohari, Bhura, Damor, Parmar, Jhania, Dhak, Bariya, Gohil, Rathod, Solanki, Chauhan, Nalvaya, Bhabria, Musaria, Kochara, Bhuriya, Khaped, Bamaniya, and Amliar. All these clans enjoy equal social status within the community. These clans are further grouped into six broader categories—Parmar, Solanki, Jadav, Chauhan, Gohil, and Rathore—which appear to have been adopted from the Rajput clan structure.
The Parmar group includes clans such as Skya, Bhagat, Gangodiya, Budia, Glot, Godad, Wagal, Chautar, Kochara, Devaliya, Suswad, and Eal. The Solanki category consists of Jhaniya, Rojada (Rose), Nalwaya, Ananiya, Cohari, Bariya, and Hihor. Under Jadav, the main clans are Khaped, Bhuriya, Damor, and Hathila. The Chauhan group comprises Pasaya, Katara, Mori, Dundawa, Dhakiya, and Wawadiya. Gohil includes only one clan, Gamar, while the Rathore group contains two clans, Chota and Bada.
According to the Gazetteer of India (1972), "The Pateliya tribe found in Dahod claims Rajput descent." However, this claim lacks any historical or genealogical evidence.
Present circumstances
The community traditionally practices settled agriculture, but they are landless, or the land owned is medium and small, and insufficient to sustain them. Nowadays they are in many different government services on both higher and smaller posts. But those are poor they migrate to Kota to work in the stone quarries and to Gujarat to work in different Industries. They profess Hinduism, and worship local deities such as Devkarji, Mataji, and Kalka Devi, Baba Ghodaja, Nihal Devi, Baba Khatri.
See also
*
Bhil
Bhil or Bheel refer to the various Indigenous peoples, indigenous groups inhabiting western India, including parts of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh and are also found in distant places such as Bengal and Tripura. Though they now speak the Bhili ...
References
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Social groups of Rajasthan
Scheduled Tribes of India
Social groups of Madhya Pradesh