Bhil Meena Explained

Group:Bhil Meena, Adivasi
Native Name:भील मीणा,आदिवासी
Native Name Lang:hi
Total:1Lakh
Region1: India
Pop1:1,07,708
Ref1:[1]
Region2:Rajasthan,
Pop2:1,05,393[2] [3] [4]
Region3:Madhya Pradesh,
Pop3:2,244[5] [6]
Region4:Chhattisgarh,
Pop4:71
Related: Bhil Meena

The Bhil Meena (also spelled Bhil Mina) are a tribal group found in the state of Rajasthan, India.[7]

Mainly they are mixed tribe of tribal Meenas and Bhils.[8]

Social status

, the Bhil Meenas were classified as a Scheduled Tribe under the Indian government's reservation program of positive discrimination.[9]

Demographics

Madhya Pradesh

Notes and References

  1. Book: Statistical Profile of Scheduled Tribes in India. Ministry of Tribal Affairs. 2013. New Delhi. 10.
  2. Web site: censusindia.
  3. Web site: List of notified Scheduled Tribes . Census India . 2 April 2022 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131107225208/http://censusindia.gov.in/Tables_Published/SCST/ST%20Lists.pdf . 7 November 2013 .
  4. Web site: A-11 Individual Scheduled Tribe Primary Census Abstract Data and its Appendix. 2022-04-02. Census of India 2011. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner,used India.
  5. Web site: List of notified Scheduled Tribes . Census India . 2 April 2022 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131107225208/http://censusindia.gov.in/Tables_Published/SCST/ST%20Lists.pdf . 7 November 2013 .
  6. Web site: A-11 Individual Scheduled Tribe Primary Census Abstract Data and its Appendix. 2022-04-02. Census of India 2011. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner,used India.
  7. Gautam K. . Kshatriya . Anup K. . Kapoor . 2003 . Population Characteristics of the Bhil of Rajasthan . Indian Anthropological Association. 41919923.
  8. Book: People of India Rajasthan Volume XXXVIII Part One. B.K. Lavania . D. K. Samanta . S. K. Mandal . N.N. Vyas. 170–173. Popular Prakashan.
  9. Web site: Census of India: Government of India . List of Scheduled Tribes . 7 March 2007 . 27 November 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100605042409/http://censusindia.gov.in/Tables_Published/SCST/scst_main.html . 5 June 2010 .