Gaekwad

Gaekwad (o anche Gaikwar e Gaikwad; in marāṭhi: गायकवाड, Gāyǎkǎvāḍǎ) è un termine indiano impiegato nello Stato del Maharashtra per indicare un clan Maratha dei Koli (gruppo etnico - talvolta chiamato Bhil - presente in Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Karnataka Jammu e Kashmir), riconducibile alla casta hindu dei Brahmani. È anche un cognome diffuso tra i Bharadi, i Dhor e le comunità Mahar (o Maha, o Mara) del Maharashtra.

I Gaekwad hanno fatto parte del gruppo costitutivo della cosiddetta Confederazione maratha, e tra essi si possono ricordare i Gaekwad di Baroda.

Etimologia

Si crede che il sostantivo Gaekwad sia una combinazione dei termini Gai, che significa "vacca", e Kavad, che vuol dire "piccola porta": quindi il tutto significherebbe "porticina della vacca".

Note

  1. ↑ Dick Kooiman, Communalism and Indian Princely States: Travancore, Baroda, and Hyderabad in the 1930s, Manohar, 2002.
    «Gaekwad is actually a surname and not a title or designation.»
  2. ↑ Kamal Ramprit Dikshit e Charulata Patil, Maharashtra in maps, Maharashtra State Board for Literature and Culture, 1986, p. 106.
    «Maratha surnames like More, Kadam and Gaekwad are found even among the scheduled caste people»
  3. ↑ (EN) B. V. Bhanu, People of India: Maharashtra, Popular Prakashan, 2004, ISBN 978-81-7991-101-3.
  4. ↑ (EN) R. R. Prasad, Encyclopaedic Profile of Indian Tribes, Discovery Publishing House, 1996, ISBN 978-81-7141-298-3.
  5. ↑ Reginald Edward Enthoven, The Tribes and Castes of Bombay, Volume 1, Asian Educational Services, 1990, p. 113.
  6. ↑ Nagendra Kr Singh, Global Encyclopaedia of the South Indian Dalit's Ethnography, Volume 1, Global Vision Pub House, 2006, p. 181.
    «There are no sub-divisions among Dhor Kakkayya of Dharwad district. The following surnames are found among them: Sindhe, Pol, Hatgar, Holkar, Borade, Gaikwad, Ingle, Mankar, Salunke and Kavale»
  7. ↑ Tulasīdāsa Viṭhūjī Geḍāma, Untouchability and Its Origin, Yugantar Education Society, 1999, p. 158.
    «In Maharashtra we find surnames of Jadhav, Chavan, Pawar, Gaikwad, Thorat etc. among the Maratha caste as well as Mahar caste»
  8. ↑ Christophe Jaffrelot, Dr Ambedkar and Untouchability: Analysing and Fighting Caste, Orient Blackswan, 2006, p. 152.
    «Gaekwad was typical of the Mahar old guard who had joined Ambedkar in the early days. It was a group largely rural in background»
  9. ↑ C.A. Kincaid, Tale of the Tulsi Plant and Other Studies, Asian Educational Services, 1994, p. 52.

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