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<div>{{Short description|Name of various Indian communities}}<br />
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{{for|the town in Uttar Pradesh, India|Lodha, Aligarh}}<br />
{{other uses|Lodhi (disambiguation)}}<br />
'''Lodha''' is the name of various Indian communities and may refer to:<br />
* [[Lodha people]], a tribal people living primarily in the Indian states of [[West Bengal]] and [[Odisha]], mostly in the [[Paschim Medinipur]] district. A section of the Lodha has converted to Islam, and form a distinct community of [[Lodha Muslims]].<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Tables_Published/SCST/dh_st_westbengal.pdf |title = West Bengal: Data Highlights the Scheduled Tribes| accessdate = 26 September 2009 | last = | first = | work = Census of India 2001 | publisher = Census Commission of India }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url =http://mayurbhanj.nic.in/tribe.htm |title = Mayurbhanj, Tribal languages, festivals and culture| accessdate = 26 September 2009 | last = | first = | publisher = }}</ref><br />
* [[Lodhi (caste)]], agriculturalist caste primarily found in [[Uttar Pradesh]] and [[Madhya Pradesh]],<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hWtDAAAAYAAJ |title=Encyclopaedia Indica |volume=2 |page=737 |last=Sharma |first=Jagdish Saran |year=1981}}</ref> sometimes categorised as [[Other Backward Class]], but claim [[Rajput]] ties and prefer to be known as "Lodhi-Rajput",<ref>{{cite book|title=Opposition in a Dominant-Party System|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZFV0XXoL5vcC&pg=PA26|first=Angela Sutherland |last=Burger |year=1969|publisher=University of California Press|page=27}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lYSd-3yL9h0C&pg=PA400 |title=The Castes and Tribes of H.E.H. the Nizam's Dominions, Volume 1 | publisher=Asian Educational Services |author=Syed Siraj ul Hassan |year=1920 |page=400 |isbn=978-8-12060-488-9}}</ref><ref>Chauhan, Brij Raj (1980). Extending frontiers of sociological learning. Meerut University. Institute of Advanced Studies. Dept. of Sociology, Institute of Advanced Studies, Meerut University. p. 55.</ref><br />
* [[Oswal]], also known as Oswal Lodha, [[Jain]] community from [[Rajasthan]].<ref name="google">{{cite book |title=The Rajputana gazetteers |author=Rajputana |date=1879 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mqYIAAAAQAAJ |page=249 |access-date=16 April 2015}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Indian castes]]<br />
[[Category:Ethnic groups in India]]</div>85.187.12.205