Vatalia

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'''Vatalia''' or '''Vataliya Prajapati''' are an [[endogamy|endogamous]]<ref name="Kumar2004"/> [[Hindu]] group and a sub-caste of Prajapati found only in [[Gujarat]].<ref>[http://sje.gujarat.gov.in/ddcw/showpage.aspx?contentid=1736&lang=english List of Socially and Educationally Backward Classes declared by Gujarat State]</ref>

Vatalia are said to be off-springs of [[Brahmin]] father by a [[Kumbhar]] wife In the eighth century AD<ref>[https://vataliyaprajapati.com/surnames Vataliya Prajapati Surnames]</ref>, and as such are polluted Brahmins, who are now considered a part of Prajapati community, as they took up job of potter.<ref name="General1966">{{cite book|author=India. Office of the Registrar General|title=Census of India, 1961: Gujarat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TQAdAQAAMAAJ|access-date=22 February 2015|year=1966|publisher=Manager of Publications|page=10}}</ref> Their [[kuladevata]] are said to be Lord [[Hanuman]].<ref name=pg>{{cite book|title=Bulletin of the Deccan College Post-Graduate & Research Institute|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nnlDAAAAYAAJ|access-date=22 February 2015|year=1995|publisher=Dr. A. M. Ghatage, director, Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute|pages=145, 167}}</ref>

Vatalia along with other Prajapati sub-divisions like Sorathia, Gujjar, Parjiya are included in [[backward class]] communities of Gujarat.<ref name="Bose1980">{{cite book|author=Pradip Kumar Bose|title=Traditional craft in a changing society: potters and their craft in Gujarat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XzBYAAAAMAAJ|access-date=22 February 2015|year=1980|publisher=Centre for Social Studies|pages=23, 116}}</ref>

Among their associations with other Kumbhar castes - they eat together with Gujjar and Koria Kumbhars but do not inter-marry.<ref name="Saraswati1978">{{cite book|author=Baidyanath Saraswati|title=Pottery-making Cultures and Indian Civilization|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aqrB_Nzr5QcC&pg=PA69|access-date=5 March 2015|year=1978|publisher=Abhinav Publications|isbn=978-81-7017-091-4|pages=69–}}</ref> However, they would neither eat nor intermarry with [[Maru (surname)|Maru]] and Khambhati Kumbhars of [[Saurashtra (region)|Saurashtra]].<ref name="Saraswati1978"/>

Their population is mostly found in [[Saurashtra (region)|Saurashtra]] in cities of [[Ahmedabad]], [[Surat]], [[Bhavnagar]], [[Vadodara]] and [[Amroli]], [[Savarkundla]], [[Rajula]], [[Talaja, Bhavnagar|Talaja]], [[Khambha]], [[Katargaon]] regions.<ref name="Kumar2004"/><ref name=mj/> Outside Gujarat, there is notable population of community in [[Mumbai]].

In Talaja, they are known as '''Tarahariya''' after the [[Tarahara, Gujarat|Tarahara]] village founded by Vatalia community, where the community members from other area still comes to pay homage to their Kulladevata temple of Hanuman.<ref name=pg/>

The community was subject of medical study with respect to [[G6PD deficiency]] and medical research in 2005, which concluded that Vataliya Prajapatis have high incidence of G6PD deficiency without severe chronic [[hemolytic anemia]]<ref name=mj>{{cite journal| pmid=15738610 | volume=59 | title=G6PD deficiency in Vataliya Prajapati community settled in Surat | year=2005 | journal=Indian J Med Sci | pages=51–6 | author=Gupte SC, Patel PU, Ranat JM | issue=2 | doi=10.4103/0019-5359.13903}}</ref><ref name="Kumar2004">{{cite book|author=Dhavendra Kumar|title=Genetic Disorders of the Indian Subcontinent|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bpl0LXKj13QC&pg=PA607|access-date=4 March 2015|date=20 October 2004|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4020-1215-0|pages=491, 496, 607}}</ref>

The community publishes their own community periodical since 1958, which is circulated amongst the All India Vataliya Prjapati Community Association.<ref>{{cite book|title=Press in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dtAfAQAAIAAJ|access-date=4 March 2015|year=1958|publisher=Office of the Registrar of Newspapers.|page=171}}</ref>{{Qn|date=June 2015}}

==References==
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[[Category:Social groups of Gujarat]]
[[Category:Indian castes]]
[[Category:Kumhar clans]]
[[Category:Hindu communities]]

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