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{{Short description|Caste in eastern India}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=June 2025}}
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{{Infobox ethnic group
| group =
| native_name =
| native_name_lang =
| image = Bauri bearer and grass cutter.jpg
| image_caption = Bauri bearer and grass cutter, from a 1799 collection of etchings
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| total = {{circa|1.9 million}}
| total_year = 2011
| total_source = census
| total_ref =
| regions = India
| region1 = West Bengal
| pop1 = 1,228,635
| ref1 = <ref>{{cite web|title=A-10 Appendix: District wise scheduled caste population (Appendix), West Bengal - 2011|url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/42898/download/46566/SC-19-PCA-A10-APPENDIX.xlsx}}</ref>
|region2 = Odisha
|pop2 = 523,127
|ref2= <ref>{{cite web|title=A-10 Appendix: District wise scheduled caste population (Appendix), Odisha - 2011|url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/42900/download/46568/SC-21-PCA-A10-APPENDIX.xlsx}}</ref>
|region3 =Jharkhand
|pop3= 186,356
|ref3 =<ref>{{cite web|title=A-10 Appendix: District wise scheduled caste population (Appendix), Jharkhand - 2011|url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/42899/download/46567/SC-20-PCA-A10-APPENDIX.xlsx}}</ref>
|region4=Bihar
|pop4=2,233
|ref4=<ref>{{cite web|title=A-10 Appendix: District wise scheduled caste population (Appendix), Bihar - 2011|url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/42891/download/46559/SC-10-PCA-A10-APPENDIX.xlsx}}</ref>
| languages = Regional languages (Bengali, Odia)
| religions = [[Hinduism]]
}}
'''Bauri''' is a caste primarily residing in the state of [[West Bengal]], India where it is considered as one of the [[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes|Scheduled Castes]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kundu|first=Santosh Kumar|title=Bengali Hindu Jati Parichay|publisher=Presidency Library|year=2008|isbn=978-81-89466-13-8|location=Kolkata|language=bn}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last= |last2= |date=25 March 2021 |title=বাউরী সম্প্রদায়ের উৎপত্তির ইতিহাস ও ঐতিহাসিক পর্যালোচনা |url=https://nobojagaran.com/history-and-historical-review-of-the-origin-of-the-bauri-community/ |access-date=13 July 2023 |website=নবজাগরণ |language=en}}</ref> There are significant Bauri populations in the states of [[Odisha]], [[Jharkhand]] and [[Bihar]]. They are usually involved in activities like [[farming]], mainly as agricultural labourers.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Chandra |first1=Uday |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7qXbCgAAQBAJ |title=The Politics of Caste in West Bengal |last2=Heierstad |first2=Geir |last3=Nielsen |first3=Kenneth Bo |date=2015-09-25 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-41477-3 |pages=125–144 |language=en}}</ref>

Bauris numbered 1,091,022 in the 2001 census in the state of West Bengal. 37.5 per cent of the Bauris were literate - 51.8 per cent males and 22.7 per cent females were literate. Only 4.7 per cent of the Bauris were matriculates or completed schooling.<ref>{{cite web|title=West Bengal, Census of India 2001|url=http://censusindia.gov.in/Tables_Published/SCST/dh_sc_westbengal.pdf|accessdate=28 June 2009|publisher=Office of the Registrar General, India}}</ref>

==Distribution==
They are primarily residing in Bengal found in large numbers in [[Bankura district|Bankura]], [[Birbhum district|Birbhum, Purulia]] and other districts in Indian [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]], [[Assam]], [[Tripura|Tripura and Orissa]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bauri|url=http://www.scstrti.in/index.php/communities/sc-communities/108-sc-communities/338-bauri|publisher=[[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Research and Training Institute]]|access-date=22 November 2020|website=www.scstrti.in}}</ref> The village of Purbo Tila in Chatlapur Tea Garden, [[Kulaura]] and Dakchara Tea Garden, [[Srimangal]], [[Moulvibazar District]] are also home to Bauri communities in [[Bangladesh]].{{cn|date=March 2024}} They are also found in many villages like [[Chhatna]] and [[Beliatore]].

==Practices==
Traces of [[totem]]ism still survive in their reverence for the red-backed heron. The heron is looked upon as the emblem of the community.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=16-LDwAAQBAJ&q=bauri&pg=PA4|title=Bauri|date=6 March 2019|publisher=Dr Suresh Kumar Sahu|language=en}}</ref>

== Classification ==
The Bauri caste is categorised as a [[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes|Scheduled Caste]] in [[West Bengal]],<ref name=":1" /> [[Odisha]], [[Jharkhand]], and [[Bihar]], while in [[Assam]], they are recognised as an [[Tea-garden community of Assam|Ex Tea garden community]] and the Bauri of Assam and [[Tripura]] placed within the [[Other Backward Class]]es.<ref>{{Cite press release |title=Tea Tribe Community |url=https://pib.gov.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=87106 |access-date=22 August 2023 |date=31 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Central OBC list for Assam |url=http://ncbc.nic.in/Writereaddata/cl/assam.pdf |website=ncbc nic.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=LIST OF OBCs IN TRIPURA AS APPROVED BY THE GOVT. OF INDIA |url=https://www.tripurascobcrm.nic.in/listobc.pdf |website=www.tripurascobcrm.nic.in }}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==Notable people==
* [[Sandhya Bauri]], MP from [[Bishnupur (Lok Sabha constituency)]]
* [[Susmita Bauri]], MP from [[Bishnupur (Lok Sabha constituency)]]
* [[Amar Kumar Bauri]], MLA in [[Jharkhand Legislative Assembly]]

==References==
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===Bibliography===
*{{Cite book |last=Singh |first=K. S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zQRuAAAAMAAJ |title=The Scheduled Castes |date=1993 |publisher=Anthropological Survey of India |isbn=978-0-19-563254-5 |pages=175–181 |language=en}}
*{{Cite book|last=Mohapatra|first=Manmohan |title=Bauri of Bhubaneswar |url=https://repository.tribal.gov.in/bitstream/123456789/73980/1/SCST_1978_book_0123.pdf |year=1978 |publisher=Tribal and Harijan Research-cum-Training Institute |location=Bhubaneswar |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220813065138/https://repository.tribal.gov.in/bitstream/123456789/73980/1/SCST_1978_book_0123.pdf |archive-date=13 August 2022}}
*{{Cite book |last=Das |first=Debajyoti
|url=http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/461280
|archive-url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461280 |archive-date=24 January 2017|title=The Bauris Of West Bengal |date=1962 |publisher=Academic publisher |location=Kolkata}}
*{{Cite book |last=Shasmal |first=Kartick Chandra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iIQcAAAAMAAJ |title=The Bauris of West Bengal: A Socio-economic Study |date=1972 |publisher=Indian Publications |language=en}}
*{{Cite book |last=Sengupta |first=Nirmal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dQXAoHucmMkC|title=Destitutes and Development: A Study of the Bauri Community in the Bokaro Region |date=1979 |publisher=Concept Publishing Company |language=en}}

{{Bengali Hindu people}}
{{Scheduled Castes in West Bengal}}

[[Category:Bengali Hindu castes]]
[[Category:Scheduled Castes of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Scheduled Castes of Odisha]]
[[Category:Scheduled Castes of Jharkhand]]
[[Category:Scheduled Castes of Bihar]]
[[Category:Ethnic groups in Odisha]]
[[Category:Ethnic groups in Jharkhand]]
[[Category:Ethnic groups in Bangladesh]]
[[Category:Ethnic groups in Assam]]
[[Category:Ethnic groups in Tripura]]
[[Category:Other Backward Classes]]

Bauri (caste) - Revision history

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