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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Confectionery community of Odisha, India}}<br />
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{{Infobox caste<br />
| caste_name = Gudia/Gudiya<br />
| varna = Vaishya<br />
| subdivisions = <br />
| populated_states = [[Odisha]] {{*}} [[Chhattisgarh]] {{*}} [[Andhra Pradesh]]<br />
| religions = [[Hinduism]]<br />
| languages = [[Odia language|Odia]]<br />
|classification = [[Halwai]]<br />
|related = [[Teli]], [[Bania (caste)|Bania]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Gudia or Guria or Gudiya''' (also known as '''Madhuvaishya''') is a caste<ref name="Mohanty2003">{{cite book|author=Ramesh P. Mohanty|title=Dalits Development and Change: An Empirical Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tMCEOmVXhLkC&pg=PA38|year=2003|publisher=Discovery Publishing House|isbn=978-81-7141-696-7|pages=38–}}</ref><ref name="Pati2008">{{cite book|author=Rabindra Nath Pati|title=Family Planning|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_5seKkk3GkIC&pg=PA115|year=2008|publisher=APH Publishing|isbn=978-81-313-0352-8|pages=115–}}</ref><ref name="ClassesRao1986">{{cite book|author1=Andhra Pradesh (India). One Man Commission of Inquiry for Backward Classes|author2=N. K. Muralidhara Rao|title=Report of the Backward Classes Commission, 1982|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2OwtAAAAMAAJ&q=gudia+caste|year=1986|publisher=Director of Print. and Stationery at the Government Secretariat Press}}</ref> found in the [[Indian state]] of [[Odisha]] and [[Chhatishgarh]], also a small population in [[Andhra Pradesh]]. They are also called as '''Modak''' in [[West Bengal]] and are the regional name of northern states [[Halwai]] caste.<ref name="People Groups of India – discovering every tribe, nation, language & people 2020">{{cite web | title=Halwai | website=People Groups of India – discovering every tribe, nation, language & people | date=2020-08-17 | url=https://peoplegroupsindia.com/profiles/halwai/ | access-date=2020-09-14}}</ref> Traditionally their occupation is making of various type of sweets for village ceremonies and festive occasion and subsist on this business. They are also supplier of offerings for village deity. Nowadays they have opened their modern sweet stalls in markets for better business.<ref name="MohantyBiswal2007">{{cite book|author1=Ramesh P. Mohanty|author2=Durgesh Nandini Biswal|title=Culture, Gender and Gender Discrimination: Caste Hindu and Tribal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kl66OPnClpoC&pg=PA39|year=2007|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=978-81-8324-199-1|pages=39–}}</ref><br />
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==Social Status==<br />
The Gudias are classified under [[Other Backward Classes]] in both the state of Odisha,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bcmbcmw.tn.gov.in/obc/faq/orrisa.pdf |title=www.bcmbcmw.tn.gov.in |format= |accessdate=}}</ref> Chhattisgarh<ref name="Hota 2016">{{cite web | last=Hota | first=Prakash Chandra | title=Jolt for Ajit as Chhattisgarh govt includes Jogi caste along with Gudiya caste in OBC category | website=Millennium Post | date=2016-09-11 | url=http://www.millenniumpost.in/jolt-for-ajit-as-chhattisgarh-govt-includes-jogi-caste-in-obc-category-161005 | access-date=2020-11-08}}</ref> and West Bengal.<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Social groups of Odisha]]<br />
[[Category:Social groups of Andhra Pradesh]]<br />
[[Category:Indian castes]]<br />
[[Category:Social groups of Chhattisgarh]]</div>Ajay Kumar