Jaga (Rajasthan)

Jagas are a social caste based group of people higher up in the Hindu hierarchy who held the traditional job of genealogists of primarily Rajput, Gurjar and Meenas and Gaderiya Dhangar(धनगर)& Nikhar(नीखर) [1] families mainly in Rajasthan, India and surrounding states. jagas are the caste which keep record of all generations of an individual family.there record was written in a big yellow book called (pothi).

References

  1. Rajasthan, Volume 1, K. S. Singh, Published by Popular Prakashan, 1998, pp.434
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