Marwari people

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12.252.201.202: reworked details for clarity and corrected details per sources

{{Short description|Ethnic group from Rajasthan, India}}
{{Other uses|Marwari (disambiguation){{!}}Marwari}}
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{{Infobox ethnic group
| group = Marwari
| flag = 
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| image = Marwadi Husband and Wife in Traditional Attire Rajasthan India.jpg
| image_caption = Marwari husband and wife in traditional attire
| population = '''{{Circa|8 million|lk=yes}}'''<ref>{{cite web |title=Marwari |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/rwr/24|website=Ethnologue}}</ref>
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| regions =
| region1 = {{Flag|India}}
| pop1 = 7,800,000
| region2 = {{Flag|Pakistan}}
| pop2 = 500,000
| region3 = {{Flag|Nepal}}
| pop3 = 33,803<ref>{{cite report |date=2021 |title=National Population and Housing Census 2021, Caste/Ethnicity Report |author=National Statistics Office |work=Government of Nepal |url=https://censusnepal.cbs.gov.np/results/downloads/caste-ethnicity}}</ref>
| region4 =
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| languages = [[Marwari language|Marwari]], [[Rajasthani languages|Rajasthani]]
| religions = '''Majority''': [[File:Om.svg|15px]] [[Hinduism]]<br/>'''Minority''':<br/>{{hlist|[[File:Star and Crescent.svg|15px]] [[Islam]]|[[File:Jain Prateek Chihna.svg|12px]] [[Jainism]]|[[Christianity]]|[[Buddhism]]}}
| related_groups = [[Rajasthani people]]
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The '''Marwari''' or '''Marwadi''' ([[Devanagari]]: मारवाड़ी) are an [[Indo-Aryan people|Indo-Aryan]] ethno-linguistic group that originate from the [[Marwar]] region of [[Rajasthan]], [[India]]. Their language, also called [[Marwari language|Marwari]], comes under the umbrella of [[Rajasthani language]]s, which is part of the Western Zone of [[Indo-Aryan languages]]. Whilst most Marwaris live within India, they have sizeable presence in the neighbouring countries of [[Pakistan]] and [[Nepal]].

==Etymology==
The term ''Marwari'' once referred to the area encompassed by the former [[princely state]] of [[Marwar]], also called the [[Jodhpur division|Jodhpur]] region of southwest [[Rajasthan]] in [[India]]. It formed from the two constituent words, Maru (region of [[Thar Desert]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=मरु के राजस्थानी अर्थ {{!}} maru meaning in Rajasthani {{!}} Anjas |url=https://anjas.org/rajasthani-dictionary/maru-meaning |access-date=7 October 2024 |website=anjas.org |language=en}}</ref> and Wadi (enclosure),<ref>{{Cite web |title=वाड़ी के राजस्थानी अर्थ {{!}} vaadii-1 meaning in Rajasthani {{!}} Anjas |url=https://anjas.org/rajasthani-dictionary/vaadii-1-meaning |website=anjas.org |access-date=7 October 2024}}</ref> effectively indicating the western part of modern day Rajasthan.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://webconte.com/community/marwari |title=Marwari - Meaning, People, Religion, Caste, History|website=WebConte}}</ref>{{unreliable source|date=February 2022|reason=Non [[WP:RS]] blog type source}} It has evolved to be a designation for the [[Rajasthani people]] in general but it is used particularly with reference to certain [[jāti]]s that fall within the [[Bania (caste)|Bania]] community. The most prominent among these communities are the [[Agarwal|Agrawal]]s, [[Khandelwal Vaishya|Khandelwals]], [[Maheshwari]]s and [[Oswal]]s.<ref name=Kudaisya2009p87>{{cite book |chapter=Marwari and Chettiar Merchants. 1850s-1950s: Comparative Trajectories |first=Medha M. |last=Kudaisya |title=Chinese and Indian Business: Historical Antecedents |editor1-first=Medha M. |editor1-last=Kudaisya |editor2-first=Chin-Keong |editor2-last=Ng |publisher=BRILL |location=Leiden |year=2009 |isbn=978-90-04-17279-1 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eQJfjnWly5wC&pg=PA87 |page=87 |access-date=23 May 2012}}</ref> It is possible that the association of the ''Marwari'' term with Jodhpur owes more to the high status of that place in pre-independence India.<ref name="hardgrove"/>

Dwijendra Tripathi believes that the term ''Marwari'' was probably used by the traders only when they were outside their home region; that is, by the diaspora.<ref>{{cite book |chapter=From Community to Class: The Marwaris in a Historical Perspective |first=Dwijendra |last=Tripathi |title=Facets of a Marwar Historian |editor1-first=B. L. |editor1-last=Bhandani |editor2-first=Dwijendra |editor2-last=Tripathi |location=Jaipur |publisher=Publication Scheme |year=1996 |pages=189–196 |isbn=978-81-86782-18-7}}</ref> Anne Hardgrove also supports this argument, saying that the Marwari identity could only exist in the context of a diaspora who came ''from'' somewhere and that until they migrated they had no such designation.<ref name="hardgrove">{{cite journal |title=Sati Worship and Marwari Public Identity in India |first=Anne |last=Hardgrove |journal=The Journal of Asian Studies |volume=58 |issue=3 |date=August 1999 |pages=723–752 |jstor=2659117|doi=10.2307/2659117 |s2cid=162498846 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

==History==
===Early origins===
Marwari traders have historically been migratory in habit. The possible causes of this trait include the proximity of their homeland to the major [[Ganges]] - [[Yamuna]] trade route; movement to escape famine; and the encouragement given to them by various rulers of northern India who saw advantages in having their skills in banking and finance.<ref name=Kudaisya2009p87/>

The pattern of Marwari migration became increasingly divergent following the decline in wars between [[Rajput]] kingdoms, which the Marwaris had helped to finance, and the decreasing influence of the community over the North Indian caravan trading routes that resulted from the British establishing themselves in the region. The changed focus of migration was also encouraged by the British, who established or patronised new trading routes and centres, as well as by the decline in the political significance of the Rajput courts whose famed conspicuous consumption had been supported by Marwari money. The community welcomed the relative safety that the British presence offered, as well as the commercial and legal frameworks that they provided and which were more favourable to Marwari activities than the systems prevalent during the earlier period of [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] and Rajput rule.<ref name=Kudaisya2009p88>{{cite book |chapter=Marwari and Chettiar Merchants. 1850s-1950s: Comparative Trajectories |first=Medha M. |last=Kudaisya |title=Chinese and Indian Business: Historical Antecedents |editor1-first=Medha M. |editor1-last=Kudaisya |editor2-first=Chin-Keong |editor2-last=Ng |publisher=BRILL |location=Leiden |year=2009 |isbn=978-90-04-17279-1 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eQJfjnWly5wC&pg=PA88 |page=88 |access-date=23 May 2012 }}</ref>

The Marwari [[Jagat Seth]] family served as banker to the [[Nawab of Bengal]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marshall |first1=P. J. |title=The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America c.1750-1783 |date=27 September 2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-155157-4 |page=149 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lRVREAAAQBAJ&pg=PA149 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Chakravarty |first1=Pinak Ranjan |title=Transformation: Emergence of Bangladesh and Evolution of India-Bangladesh Ties |date=21 July 2025 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-040-39274-4 |page=24 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NkxTEQAAQBAJ&pg=PT24}}</ref>

===British era===
After the decline of Mughal authority, Marwari traders, bankers and financiers migrated to the growing British power in Calcutta.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rcNdAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA197|title=Commodifying Everything : Relationships of the Market.|last=Strasser|first=Susan|year=2013|publisher=Taylor and Francis|isbn=978-1-13670-685-1|location=Hoboken|page=197}}</ref> There were particularly significant population shifts to [[Mumbai|Bombay]] between 1835-1850 and Kolkata from the 1870s, as well as to [[Chennai|Madras]].<ref name=Kudaisya2009p88/>

Historian Medha M. Kudaisya has said that the Marwaris:
{{Quote|made the transition from being niche players in trading to becoming industrial conglomerates ... From being brokers and bankers, the Marwaris went on to break the British monopoly over the jute industry after World War I; they then moved into other industrial sectors, such as cotton and sugar, and set up diversified conglomerates. By the 1950s, the Marwaris dominated the India private industry scenario, emerging as the establishers of its most prominent business houses.<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Marwari and Chettiar Merchants. 1850s-1950s: Comparative Trajectories |first=Medha M. |last=Kudaisya |title=Chinese and Indian Business: Historical Antecedents |editor1-first=Medha M. |editor1-last=Kudaisya |editor2-first=Chin-Keong |editor2-last=Ng |publisher=BRILL |location=Leiden |year=2009 |isbn=978-90-04-17279-1 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eQJfjnWly5wC&pg=PA86 |page=86 |access-date=2012-05-23}}</ref>}}

A considerable number of Marwari business groups made their fortune on speculative markets in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5cWUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT56|title=The Marwaris: from Jagat Seth to the Birlas|last=Timberg|first=Thomas A.|publisher=Portfolio Penguin|year=2014|isbn=978-0-14342-405-5|location=New Delhi|page=56}}</ref>

Although maintaining close and public ties with the British authorities, members of the Marwari business community were early financial supporters of the [[History of the Indian National Congress|Indian National Congress]], often in secret.<ref name=":0" />

===Independent India===
In 1956, the All-India Marwari Federation opposed a linguistic organisation of states while buying up regional language newspapers in [[Maharashtra]], [[Tamil Nadu]] and [[Andhra Pradesh]].<ref>''The Times of India'', 11 February 1956, p. 3.</ref> Today, they control many of the country's largest media groups.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.forbesindia.com/article/marwari-power/indian-media-marwaris-write-the-script/37361/1|title=Indian Media: Marwaris Write the Script {{!}} Forbes India|last=Ajwani|first=Deepak|date=18 March 2014|website=Forbes India|language=en-US|access-date=25 November 2017}}</ref>

The community's influence over the Indian economy declined following the country's 1991 economic reforms. From a peak of controlling 24 per cent of economic activity in 1990, it had fallen to less than 2 per cent in 2000. This reflects the growth of new industries outside of commodities trading and primary production. The figure for 2000 is considered to be lower than the position in 1939, when the community first began its resurgence.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Marwaris-losing-business-acumen/articleshow/9005397.cms|title=Marwaris losing business acumen|last=Niyogi|first=Subhro|date=6 May 2002|work=The Times of India|access-date=27 November 2017}}</ref>

==Language==
Marwari, or Marrubhasha, as it is referred to by Marwaris, is the traditional historical language of the Marwaris. The Marwari language is closely related to the Rajasthani language. The latter evolved from the [[Old Gujarati language|Old Gujarati]] (also called ''Old Western Rajasthani'', ''Gujjar Bhakha'' or ''Maru-Gurjar'') language spoken by the people in [[Gujarat]] and Rajasthan.<ref>{{cite book|title=Revealing India's past: recent trends in art and archaeology|author=Ajay Mitra Shastri|author2=R. K. Sharma|author3=Devendra Handa|publisher=Aryan Books International|year=2005|isbn=978-81-7305-287-3|page=227|quote=It is an established fact that during 10th-11th century ... Interestingly the language was known as the Gujjar Bhakha.}}</ref> It has been noted that throughout the state of Rajasthan, people avoid identifying their language by name, preferring to identify themselves as speaking "Rajasthani" with Marwari literature being taught as Rajasthani until secondary level.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011-documents/lsi/lsi_Rajasthan/5_Marwari.pdf|title=Marwari|last=Mukherjee|first=Kakali|date=2011|website=Census India|page=35}}</ref>

== Culture ==
Marwaris have been known for a tightly knit social solidarity, described by [[Selig Harrison]] in 1960 as "indissoluble under the impact of the strongest regional solvents".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9jbWCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA116|title=India: the most dangerous decades.|last=Harrison|first=Selig, S.|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=1960|isbn=978-1-40087-780-5|page=116}}</ref> According to Hardgrove, "The main duty for Marwari women, it would seem, is to provide a stable household life for their husbands, sons and brothers-in-law", although she acknowledges that some such women have in recent years been attempting to carve out roles in the wider world through engagement in charitable ventures and even running their own businesses.<ref name="hardgrove"/>

== Demographics outside India ==

=== Pakistan ===
Following the [[Partition of India|1947 partition]], many [[Marwari Muslims]] moved to the new state of [[Pakistan]], mainly in [[Karachi]] with some in [[South Punjab Province|southern Punjab]], and as of 2007 their numbers were estimated at around 500,000 in the country.<ref>{{Cite web |date=27 May 2007 |title=Karachi's own Marwari community |url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/57368-karachi%E2%80%99s-own-marwari-community |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240721082551/https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/57368-karachi%E2%80%99s-own-marwari-community |archive-date=21 July 2024 |website=[[The News International]] |quote=After partition some Muslim members moved to Sindh and southern Punjab in Pakistan. Today there are about half a million Marwaris living in the country.}}</ref>

The [[Ranchore Line, Karachi|Ghazdarabad]] neighbourhood of Karachi has a Marwari Muslim majority, numbering around 20,000 and having mostly moved from [[Jaisalmer]] in [[Rajasthan]] after the partition and earlier in the 19th century as well.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rafi |first=Yumna |date=31 May 2015 |title=In the heart of Karachi, women rule the streets at night |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1184784 |website=[[Dawn News]] |quote=The community that dominantly occupies this locality, the Marwari Salawat, migrated a little before partition from Jaisalmer city in Rajasthan, India and settled in Karachi and Hyderabad. The Marwaris are a close-knit community, numbering about 20,000 strong in the Ghazdarabad; they refuse to shift from the area that their forefathers had settled in.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Khan |first=Naimat |date=22 December 2023 |title='Our lifeline': In Pakistan's Karachi, a small migrant community's nightlife in 'bakaras' |url=https://www.arabnews.com/node/2430016/pakistan |website=[[Arab News]] |quote=Such late-night rendezvous spent at gazebo-like community spaces called “bakaras” are an integral part of the social fabric of Muslim Marwaris, or Silawats, who migrated from India to Karachi in the nineteenth century (...) Silawats number around 20,000 and live together in one crowded locality in Gazdarabad where they have preserved the tradition of spending long nights in bakaras.}}</ref>

=== Nepal ===
The [[Central Bureau of Statistics (Nepal)|Central Bureau of Statistics]] of Nepal classifies the Marwaris (called Marwadis in the Nepal census) as a subgroup within the broader social group of "[[Indian Nepalis]]".<ref> Population Monograph of Nepal, Volume II [https://nepal.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/Population%20Monograph%20V02.pdf]</ref> At the time of the Nepal census of 2011, 51,443 people (0.2% of the population of Nepal) were Marwadi. The frequency of Marwadis by province was as follows:
* [[Koshi Province]] (0.4%)
* [[Bagmati Province]] (0.3%)
* [[Madhesh Province]] (0.2%)
* [[Lumbini Province]] (0.1%)
* [[Gandaki Province]] (0.0%)
* [[Karnali Province]] (0.0%)
* [[Sudurpashchim Province]] (0.0%)

The frequency of Marwadis was higher than national average (0.2%) in the following districts:<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cbs.gov.np/wp-content/upLoads/2018/12/Volume05Part02.pdf |title=2011 Nepal Census, District Level Detail Report |access-date=7 April 2023 |archive-date=14 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230314170005/https://cbs.gov.np/wp-content/upLoads/2018/12/Volume05Part02.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Morang District|Morang]] (1.0%)
* [[Parsa District|Parsa]] (0.9%)
* [[Kathmandu District|Kathmandu]] (0.8%)
* [[Sunsari District|Sunsari]] (0.6%)
* [[Jhapa District|Jhapa]] (0.5%)
* [[Banke District|Banke]] (0.3%)
* [[Kapilvastu District|Kapilvastu]] (0.3%)
* [[Sarlahi District|Sarlahi]] (0.3%)

==Notable people==



*[[Anil Agarwal (industrialist)|Anil Agarwal]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Tripathy |first1=Srikanta |title=Hard-working Rajasthanis sacrificed a lot to build businesses: Anil Agarwal |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/hard-working-rajasthanis-sacrificed-a-lot-to-build-businesses-anil-agarwal/articleshow/89734014.cms |access-date=12 June 2023 |work=The Times of India |date=22 February 2022}}</ref>
*[[Ritesh Agarwal]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Chowdhry |first1=Seema |last2=Khurana |first2=Chanpreet |title=Entrepreneurs {{!}} The company of teens |url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/DKlwxaxpasyfdRpKhEwF2J/Entrepreneurs--The-company-of-teens.html |access-date=12 June 2023 |work=Mint |date=30 November 2013 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Nidhhi Agerwal]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Nidhhi Agerwal: I am a Tollywood buff who grew up watching Telugu films dubbed in Hindi - Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/telugu/movies/news/nidhhi-agerwal-i-am-a-tollywood-buff-who-grew-up-watching-telugu-films-dubbed-in-hindi/articleshow/61660243.cms |access-date=12 November 2019 |work=The Times of India |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Janaki Devi Bajaj]]<ref name="MarwariHeritage"/>
*[[Rahul Bajaj]]<ref name="MarwariHeritage"/>
*[[Benu Gopal Bangur]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Meet billionaire Benu Gopal Bangur, 92, whose net worth is Rs 59,000 crore, know about his business empire |url=https://www.dnaindia.com/business/report-meet-benu-gopal-bangur-one-of-india-oldest-billionaire-net-worth-rs-59000-crore-know-his-business-shree-cement-3035634 |access-date=12 June 2023 |work=DNA |date=11 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Sooraj Barjatya]]<ref name="Barjatiya">{{cite news |last1=Vasisht |first1=Divya |title=Sooraj Barjatya: The big picture |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi-times/Sooraj-Barjatya-The-big-picture/articleshow/49316.cms |access-date=21 February 2022 |work=The Times of India |date=29 June 2003 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Tarachand Barjatya]]<ref name="Barjatiya"/>
*[[Shobhana Bhartia]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jain |first1=Gunjan |title=Shobhana Bhartia: (Penguin Petit) |date=2018 |publisher=Penguin Random House India Private Limited |isbn=9789353054175 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=voJ8DwAAQBAJ&q=shobhana+bhartia+marwari&pg=PT34 |access-date=12 November 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Aditya Vikram Birla]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Veteran industrialist BK Birla passes away in Mumbai at 98 |url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/veteran-industrialist-bk-birla-passes-away-mumbai-98-104793 |access-date=12 June 2023 |work=The News Minute |agency=IANS |date=4 July 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Kumar Mangalam Birla]]<ref>{{cite news |title=The story of the first couple of the Birla empire |url=https://www.rediff.com/money/slide-show/slide-show-1-the-story-of-the-first-couple-of-the-birla-empire/20110706.htm |access-date=12 November 2019 |work=Rediff |date=6 June 2011 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Om Birla]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Samyak |first1=Neelam |last2=Samyak |first2=Samyak |title=Om Birla, the new Lok Sabha Speaker has RSS roots and was part of Ram temple movement |url=https://theprint.in/theprint-profile/om-birla-the-new-lok-sabha-speaker-has-rss-roots-and-was-part-of-ram-temple-movement/251541/ |work=ThePrint |date=18 June 2019}}</ref>
*[[Kishore Biyani]]<ref name="BiyanivsDamani">{{cite news |last1=Sharma |first1=Dimple |title=A tale of two Marwari merchants: Kishore Biyani and Radhakishan Damani |url=https://www.timesnownews.com/business-economy/industry/article/a-tale-of-two-marwari-merchants-kishore-biyani-and-radhakishan-damani/611066 |access-date=21 February 2022 |work=Times Now |date=24 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Binod Chaudhary]]<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|date=28 May 2019|title=Binod Chaudhary – My Story: From the Streets of Kathmandu to a Billion Dollar Empire.|url=http://www.martinchautari.org.np/files/SINHAS_Book-Reviews/SINHAS-Vol.20-No.2_Book-Reviews_Shubhanga-Pandey.pdf|access-date=28 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181024125443/http://www.martinchautari.org.np/files/SINHAS_Book-Reviews/SINHAS-Vol.20-No.2_Book-Reviews_Shubhanga-Pandey.pdf|archive-date=24 October 2018}}</ref>
*[[Ritu Dalmia]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dalmia |first1=Ritu |title=My freedom to love: 'I was 23 when I realised I was gay. I told my parents. The next day they sent a box of mangoes for my partner at the time' |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/independence-day-special/story/20160822-ritu-dalmia-my-freedom-to-love-article-377-lgbt-gay-rights-829406-2016-08-12 |access-date=12 November 2019 |work=India Today |date=12 August 2016 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Jagmohan Dalmiya]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Choudhury |first1=Angikaar |title=Jagmohan Dalmiya (1940-2015): The man who symbolised India's clout in world cricket |url=https://scroll.in/field/756893/jagmohan-dalmiya-1940-2015-the-man-who-symbolised-india-s-clout-in-world-cricket |access-date=12 November 2019 |work=Scroll.in |date=21 September 2015}}</ref>
*[[Radhakishan Damani]]<ref name="BiyanivsDamani"/>
*[[Harsh Goenka]]<ref name="ET2014">{{cite news |title=Seven key business lessons from Thomas A Timberg's book The Marwaris: From Jagath Seth to the Birlas |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/seven-key-business-lessons-from-thomas-a-timbergs-book-the-marwaris-from-jagath-seth-to-the-birlas/articleshow/45001092.cms |access-date=12 June 2023 |work=The Economic Times |date=1 November 2014}}</ref>
*[[R. P. Goenka]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mukherji |first1=Udit Prasanna |title=Rama Prasad Goenka, the original takeover tycoon, is dead |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/rama-prasad-goenka-the-original-takeover-tycoon-is-dead/articleshow/19552145.cms |access-date=12 June 2023 |work=The Times of India |date=15 April 2013}}</ref>
*[[S. N. Goenka]]<ref>{{cite news |title=You have to work out your own salvation - Indian Express |url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/-you-have-to-work-out-your-own-salvation-/640972/0 |access-date=12 November 2019 |work=archive.indianexpress.com |date=3 July 2010}}</ref>
*[[Abhishek Jain]]<ref name="SadWeekly 2015">{{cite web |title='કેવી રીતે જઈશ' અને 'બે યાર'ના સર્જક અભિષેક જૈન કહે છે...એ ઘટનાએ જ મારી ગુજરાતી ફિલ્મ બનાવવાની ધગશને વધુ પ્રગટાવી| url=http://www.sadhanaweekly.com/article.php?catid=171&issue_date=2015-05-02 | language=gu | date=2 May 2015|access-date=30 January 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924093349/http://www.sadhanaweekly.com/article.php?catid=171&issue_date=2015-05-02 |archive-date=24 September 2015}}</ref>
*[[Ravi Jaipuria]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Karmali |first1=Naazneen |title=Pepsi Bottler Ravi Jaipuria Is Newest Indian Billionaire |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/naazneenkarmali/2013/02/05/pepsi-bottler-ravi-jaipuria-is-newest-indian-billionaire/?sh=697066bb2b9b |access-date=12 June 2023 |work=Forbes |date=5 February 2013 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Shyamanand Jalan]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Shyamanand Jalan: Eminenet theatre actor Shyamanand Jalan dead {{!}} Kolkata News - Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Eminenet-theatre-actor-Shyamanand-Jalan-dead/articleshow/5970813.cms |access-date=12 November 2019 |work=The Times of India |date=25 May 2010 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Rakesh Jhunjhunwala]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Rakesh Jhunjhunwala passes away at 62; here's a look at India's Warren Buffett's life |url=https://zeenews.india.com/companies/rakesh-jhunjhunwala-passes-away-at-62-on-sunday-here-looks-at-his-profile-2496825.html |access-date=12 June 2023 |work=Zee News |date=14 August 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Savitri Jindal]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Taknet |first1=D. K. |title=The Marwari Heritage |date=22 July 2016 |publisher=IntegralDMS |isbn=978-1-942322-06-1 |page=201 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kXS2DAAAQBAJ&dq=i&pg=PA201 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Rajeev Khandelwal]]<ref>{{cite news |title=rediff.com: Rajeev Khandelwal chats with Rediff Readers |url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/2008/jun/11sld4.htm |access-date=12 November 2019 |work=www.rediff.com}}</ref>
*[[Rohit Khandelwal]]<ref>{{cite news |author=TT Bureau |date=18 September 2016 |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/man-of-the-world/cid/1322667 |title=Man of the world |work=[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)|The Telegraph]] |access-date=25 April 2019}}</ref>
*[[Mangal Lodha]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kashyap |first1=Babita |title=भाजपा ने महाराष्ट्र सौंपा मराठा को और मुंबई मारवाड़ी को - |url=https://www.jagran.com/maharashtra/mumbai-chandrakant-patil-appointed-as-maharashtra-bjp-president-mangal-prabhat-lodha-is-new-mumbai-unit-chief-19407162.html |work=Dainik Jagran |language=hi |date=17 July 2019 |access-date=12 June 2023 }}</ref>
*[[Shailesh Lodha]],<ref>{{cite AV media |date=23 February 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpDEvn0T5xI |title=Shailesh Lodha - मारवाड़ी भाषा री बात ही निराळी {{!}} शैलेश लोढ़ा {{!}} Raipur Live Video {{!}} RDC Rajasthani |publisher=RDC Rajasthani |via=[[YouTube]] |access-date=21 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220221171920/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpDEvn0T5xI |archive-date=21 February 2022 |url-status=live |quote=At 3:06}}</ref> actor, writer and poet
*[[Shantanu Maheshwari]].<ref>{{cite news |title="I am Marwadi, must have regifted some gift," Shantanu Maheshwari's Never Have I Ever with ETimes TV {{!}} TV - Times of India Videos |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/tv/hindi/i-am-marwadi-must-have-regifted-some-gift-shantanu-maheshwaris-never-have-i-ever-with-etimes-tv/videoshow/86038874.cms |access-date=29 July 2023 |work=The Times of India |date=8 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Smriti Mandhana]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rizvi |first1=Taus |title=Some people would say that I will become dark in the sun, and who will marry me if I played: Smriti Mandhana |url=https://www.dnaindia.com/cricket/interview-some-people-would-say-that-i-will-become-dark-in-the-sun-and-who-will-marry-me-if-i-played-smriti-mandhana-2607385 |access-date=12 June 2023 |work=DNA |date=22 April 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Lakshmi Mittal]]<ref name="Mittal">{{cite news |last1=Choudhury |first1=Chandrahas |title=MBA culture crushes India's caste system |url=https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/RXwu0TPDwaBdIfRWefzoEI/MBA-culture-crushes-Indias-caste-system.html |access-date=21 February 2022 |work=Mint |date=21 July 2014 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Palak Muchhal]]<ref>{{cite tweet |last=Muchhal |first=Palak |author-link=Palak Muchhal |user=palakmuchhal3 |number=1183714508029612033 |date=14 October 2019 |title=My First Performance on stage!!! 😇 I was two and a half years old.. this was actually the first time I ever sang anything! No one in my Marwadi family would sing so It came as a surprise to my parents! ♥️ Singing Lataji's "Chalri Sajni Ab Kya Soche" here in the picture... 🎵 https://t.co/tySx2iZP3k |language=en |access-date=21 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191014120544/https://twitter.com/palakmuchhal3/status/1183714508029612033 |archive-date=14 October 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>

*[[Hanuman Prasad Poddar]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=सिंह |first1=एनके |title=हनुमान प्रसाद पोद्दार: किसी थ्रिलर फिल्म से कम नहीं है इनकी कहानी {{!}} - News in Hindi - हिंदी न्यूज़, समाचार, लेटेस्ट-ब्रेकिंग न्यूज़ इन हिंदी |url=https://hindi.news18.com/blogs/nk-singh/bharat-ki-khoj-hanuman-prasad-poddar-journey-from-bomb-party-to-hindu-mahasabha-geeta-press-gorakhpur-4499343.html |access-date=12 June 2023 |work=News18 |date=29 August 2022 |language=hi}}</ref>
*[[Shashi and Ravi Ruia]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Timberg |first1=Thomas A. |title=The Marwaris: From Jagat Seth to the Birlas |date=22 May 2015 |publisher=Penguin UK |isbn=978-93-5118-713-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5cWUAwAAQBAJ&dq=Shashi+and+Ravi+Ruia+marwari&pg=PT74 |page=74}}</ref>
*[[Kiku Sharda]]<ref>{{cite news |title=46 साल के हुए कीकू शारदा:बिजनेस फैमिली से ताल्लुक रखते हैं 'द कपिल शर्मा शो' में नजर आने वाले कीकू शारदा, MBA करने के बाद बन गए कॉमेडियन |url=https://www.bhaskar.com/entertainment/bollywood/news/kiku-sharda-who-is-seen-in-the-kapil-sharma-show-belongs-to-a-business-family-became-a-comedian-after-doing-mba-128438483.html |access-date=12 June 2023 |work=Dainik Jagran |lang=hi}}</ref>
*[[Lala Kamlapat Singhania]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Narayanan |first1=Chitra |title=The Singhania story |url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/the-singhania-story/article22994845.ece |access-date=12 June 2023 |work=Business Line |date=18 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230410050354/https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/the-singhania-story/article22994845.ece |archive-date=10 April 2023}}</ref>
*[[Abhishek Singhvi]]<ref name="MarwariHeritage">{{cite book |last1=Taknet |first1=D. K. |author-link=D. K. Taknet |title=The Marwari Heritage |date=2016 |publisher=IntegralDMS |isbn=9781942322061 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kXS2DAAAQBAJ |access-date=12 November 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Ashok Kumar Singhvi]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=INSA :: Indian Fellow Detail|url=https://www.insaindia.res.in/detail.php?id=P00-1285|access-date=28 January 2022|website=www.insaindia.res.in}}</ref>
*[[Laxmi Mall Singhvi]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Singhvi |first1=Abhishek Manu |last2=Malik |first2=Lokendra |title=India's Vibgyor Man: Selected Writings and Speeches of L.M. Singhvi |date=2018 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-909407-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M_xdDwAAQBAJ&q=laxmi+mall+singhvi+marwari&pg=PT35 |access-date=31 December 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="MarwariHeritage" />
*[[Liaquat Soldier]], Pakistani comedy actor, writer and director.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/140176/liaquat-soldier-dies-of-heart-attack/ |title=Liaquat 'Soldier' dies of heart attack: Express Tribune |date=30 March 2011 |access-date=18 August 2020|archive-date=1 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110401104839/http://tribune.com.pk/story/140176/liaquat-soldier-dies-of-heart-attack/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Vijay Varma]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Majumdar |first1=Anushree |date=24 February 2019 |title=After Gully Boy, Vijay Varma talks about spending a decade in the background |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/express-sunday-eye/his-time-has-come-5594477/ |work=The Indian Express |access-date=21 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228124521/https://indianexpress.com/article/express-sunday-eye/his-time-has-come-5594477/ |archive-date=28 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Best Irani Cafe ft. Vijay Varma {{!}} Darlings {{!}} Menu Please |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtVXIdPzqiM |publisher=Netflix India |website=YouTube | date=17 August 2022 |access-date=21 October 2023}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Tarachand Ghanshyamdas]]
* [[Kingdom of Marwar]]
* [[Marwari horse]]

==References==
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