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The '''Dalera''', sometimes pronounced as '''Dalere,''' is a [[Hindu]] [[caste]] found in [[North India]].<ref>People of India Uttar Pradesh Volume XLII Part One edited by A Hasan & J C Das pages 407 to 411 Manohar Publications</ref> They claim lineage from union between a [[Gurjar]] male and [[Kahar]] female.<ref>"Their own tradition is that they spring from an alliance between a Gujar on the male side and a woman of the Dhimar caste" in Nevill, H. R. (1911). Bareilly: A Gazetteer, being Volume XIII of the District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (p. 198). Allahabad: Government Press.</ref><br />
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==Occupation==<br />
The primary occupation of the caste was according to the 1901 Census of India was [[Basketmaking]]<ref>[https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Census_of_India_1901/glJFAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA231&printsec=frontcover Census of India Volume 16, Issue 1, 1901]. (1902). India: Printed at the Government central Press. p231</ref> and [[Day_labor |day-labouring]]<ref>Haikerwala, B.S. [https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.01813/page/151/mode/2up?q=dalera Economic And Social Aspect of Crime in India]. George Allen And Unwin Limited. p.151</ref><br />
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==Geographical Location==<br />
They are found almost entirely in [[Bareilly]] District<ref>(Census of India 1901 Volume XVI, Issue I. p.231)</ref><br />
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==Social Status==<br />
There social positioning in the [[Hindu]] caste system is generally considered low<ref>Blunt, E. (2010). [https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/The_Caste_System_of_Northern_India/NenzO2grTOMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=dalera&pg=PA159&printsec=frontcover The Caste System of Northern India]. Isha Books. p.159</ref><br />
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== Government Status==<br />
The Dalera were classified as a Criminal Tribe under the [[Criminal Tribes Act]] in a case titled ''"Queen-Empress vs Hori on 27 May, 1899"'' it was declared that the accused named Hori could not be sent to a reformatory school as he was from a tribe declared ineligible to be done so under ''"Rule 4 of the rules made by the Local Government and published at pages 167, 168 of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh Government Gazette, Part VI, 3rd July 1897"''<ref>[https://indiankanoon.org/doc/236898/ Queen-Empress v. Hori, (1899)]. Indian Law Reports, Allahabad Series, 21, 391.</ref><br />
The Dalera themselves are neither [[Scheduled Tribes]], [[Scheduled Caste]] or [[Other Backward Caste]]<ref>Lok Sabha Secretariat. (1982). [https://eparlib.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/2707976/1/07_VIII_24-03-1982_p64_p65_u4937.pdf Dalera Caste of Uttar Pradesh] [Parliamentary Question And Answers]. Government of India. https://eparlib.nic.in/handle/123456789/2707976</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
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* [[Basor]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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