Puran (caste) explained

Puran (Bhanja Puran or Tamudia Puran) is a caste group of East India. They are primarily inhabitants of Odisha, West Bengal and Jharkhand.^[1] They are currently considered as Other Backward Class,^[2] but Jharkhand and Odisha government proposed to include in Scheduled Tribes list.^{[3] [4]}

Caste Name:	Puran
Classification:	OBC
State:	Odisha, West Bengal, Jharkhand
Country:	India

Further reading

• Book: Sinha, Surajit . Surajit Chandra Sinha . Tribal Polities and State Systems in Pre-colonial Eastern and North Eastern India . 1987 . Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta . 978-81-7074-014-8 . en.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Youngest woman candidate on mission to improve life of poor . 2022-09-20 . The New Indian Express.
2. Central OBC list of Odisha . ncbc.nic.in.
3. Web site: Inclusion of "Puran" community in the list of STs in the State of Jharkhand. . National Commission for Scheduled Tribes.
4. Empirical Ethnographic Study on the Social Status of PURAN (BHANJA PURAN and TAMUDIA PURAN) community of Mayurbhanj district of Odisha . https://web.archive.org/web/20210814032713/https://repository.tribal.gov.in/bitstream/123456789/73893/1/SCST_2018_research_0080.pdf . August 14, 2021 . live . 2018 . repository.tribal.gov.in.