Gowari

Gowari is an Indian caste of cattle herdsmen, predominantly living in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.[1]

Despite occasional errors in the literature, they do not speak a distinct language.[2]

Distribution

The maximum concentration of their population is in the Maharashtra districts of Nagpur, Chandrapur, Wardha, Gadchiroli, Bhandara, and Gondia[3] where they are around 350,000 to 400,000.

The maximum concentration of their population is in the Madhya Pradesh districts of Chhindwara, Balaghat, Seoni, and Mandla.

Gowari stampede
Shaheed Gowari Memorial at Zero Mile, Nagpur

There was a stampede during a protest in Nagpur on 23 November 1994 in which 114 people from the Gowari community were killed and more than 500 were injured.

A monument, the Gowari Shaheed Smarak, has been built in Nagpur near Zero Milestone,[4] (the geographical centre of India) to commemorate those who died in this tragedy.

See also

References
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Gowlan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. "सर्व्हर दोष !" (PDF). Maharashtra.gov.in. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  4. Archived 16 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine
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