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{{Short description|Ethnic group found in Odisha and Jharkhand}}
{{Infobox ethnic group
| group = Binjhia
| image =
| total = 25,823 (2011)
| total_ref = <ref name="census 2011">{{cite web|title=Census of India Website : Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/PCA/ST.html|website=www.censusindia.gov.in|publisher=Government of India|accessdate=23 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150907212310/http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/PCA/ST.html|archive-date=7 September 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>
| region1 = Odisha
| pop1 = 11,419
| ref1 = <ref name="census 2011" />
| region2 = Jharkhand
| pop2 = 14,404
| ref2 = <ref name="census 2011" />
| languages = [[Binjhwari language|Binjhwari]], [[Sadri language|Sadri]], [[Odia language|Odia]]
| religions = Hinduism, Autonomous Tribal Religion<ref name="scstrti-Binjhia">{{cite web | title=Binjhia | website=Home | url=http://www.scstrti.in/index.php/communities/tribes/91-tribes/156-binjhia | access-date=2020-07-08}}</ref>
| related =
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The '''Binjhia''' (also known as '''Binjhoa''', '''Binjhawar''')<ref name="Mhaiske Patil Narkhede 2016 p. 168">{{cite book | last1=Mhaiske | first1=V.M. | last2=Patil | first2=V.K. | last3=Narkhede | first3=S.S. | title=Forest Tribology And Anthropology | publisher=Scientific Publisher | year=2016 | isbn=978-93-86102-08-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sbs4DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA168 | access-date=2020-06-23 | page=168}}</ref><ref name="Das 2012 p.396 ">{{cite book | last=Das | first=N.K. | title=Odisha | publisher=Seagull Books | series=Odisha | issue=pt. 1 | year=2012 | isbn=978-81-7046-293-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sz7m_yM-hJsC | access-date=2020-07-08 | page=396}}</ref> is an ethnic group found in [[Odisha]] and [[Jharkhand]].<ref name="scstrti-Binjhia"/><ref name="Minz Hansda 2010 p.47 ">{{cite book | last1=Minz | first1=D. | last2=Hansda | first2=D.M. | title=Encyclopaedia of Scheduled Tribes in Jharkhand | publisher=Kalpaz Publications | year=2010 | isbn=978-81-7835-121-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W5dVaq4_cLoC&pg=PA47 | access-date=2020-07-08 | page=47}}</ref> The 2011 census showed their population to be around 25,835. They are classified as a [[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes|Scheduled Tribe]] by the Indian government.<ref name="census 2011"/>

== Etymology ==
According to some sources the name Binjhia is derived from the word Vindhyas meaning Vindhya Hills.<ref name="Singh Anthropological Survey of India 1998 p.497 ">{{cite book | last=Singh | first=K.S. | author2=Anthropological Survey of India | title=India's Communities | publisher=Oxford University Press | series=People of India | year=1998 | isbn=978-0-19-563354-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jw9uAAAAMAAJ | access-date=2020-07-08 | page=497}}</ref>

==Origin==
The Binjhias believe that their original home was Kolanagari in the Vindhya valley.<ref name="Singh Anthropological Survey of India 2008 p.187 ">{{cite book | last=Singh | first=K.S. | author2=Anthropological Survey of India | title=People of India | publisher=Anthropological Survey of India | series=People of India | issue=v. 16, pt. 1 | year=2008 | isbn=978-81-7046-302-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dw8wAQAAIAAJ | access-date=2020-07-08 | page=187}}</ref> From Vindhya hills they moved east-wards to Chhotnagpur, Keonjhar, Sundargarh and Barasombar. Long time ago they called themselves as Vindhyaniwasi. But after settling down at Chhotnagpur, gradually they were called as Binjhia by the local people.<ref name="Singh Anthropological Survey of India 1998 p.498 ">{{cite book | last=Singh | first=K.S. | author2=Anthropological Survey of India | title=India's Communities | publisher=Oxford University Press | series=People of India | year=1998 | isbn=978-0-19-563354-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jw9uAAAAMAAJ | access-date=2020-07-08 | page=498}}</ref>

==Subgroups==
The Binjhia are divided into four subgroups. They are Asur-Binjhia, Agaria-Binjhia, Pahariya Binjhia and Dand-Binjhia. These subgroups are further divided into a number of septs.<ref name="Singh Anthropological Survey of India 1998 p.498 "/>

== Culture ==
The Binjhia settlements are large and homogeneous. They do not practise clan exogamy. However consider each village as an exogamous unit. Adult marriage is preferred in some groups. Where as child marriage is common in others. They also allow cross-cousin marriage, levirate, sororate, remarriage of widows and divorcees. They practise both burial and burning of the dead. There are separate burial grounds reserved for different lineages.<ref>{{cite book | last1=Minz | first1=D. | last2=Hansda | first2=D.M. | title=Encyclopaedia of Scheduled Tribes in Jharkhand | publisher=Kalpaz Publications | year=2010 | isbn=978-81-7835-121-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W5dVaq4_cLoC&pg=PA48 | access-date=2020-07-08 | page=48}}</ref>

They worship a number of benevolent and malevolent spirits along with Hindu gods and goddesses such as [[Jagannath]]. Their village deity is named Budharaja. They have the cult of ancestor worship – pitru puja at the clan and lineage levels. They still use barter system at the village community level and the weekly markets. Women are an important part in all forms of socio-economic transactions. The structure of clan starts at level of an extended family called {{Transliteration|hne|dibiris}}. A cluster of {{Transliteration|hne|dibiris}} comprising a local group of families up to three generations form a {{Transliteration|hne|jama}} - a minor lineage. Several {{Transliteration|hne|jamas}} in a village constitute a {{Transliteration|hne|khumuri}}, a major lineage. The latter make a small clan, a {{Transliteration|hne|barga}}. The clan is composed of {{Transliteration|hne|bargas}} and headed by a {{Transliteration|hne|gauntia}}.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

==See also==
* [[Tribes of India]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Scheduled tribes of India}}
{{Scheduled tribes in Odisha}}
{{Reservation in India}}

[[Category:Scheduled Tribes of India]]
[[Category:Social groups of Odisha]]
[[Category:Scheduled Tribes of Odisha]]
[[Category:Social groups of Jharkhand]]
[[Category:Ethnic groups in India]]
[[Category:Ethnic groups in Odisha]]
[[Category:Ethnic groups in Jharkhand]]

Binjhia people - Revision history

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