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'''Mathadi''' is a [[Marathi language|Marathi]] language term to denote a [[head-carrying|head-loader]].<ref name="Shah2002">{{cite book|author=Ghanshyam Shah|title=Dalits And The State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J1gnfSo29mAC&pg=PA175|accessdate=27 June 2013|date=1 January 2002|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|isbn=978-81-7022-922-3|pages=175–176}}</ref><ref name="Atal2009">{{cite book|author=Yogesh Atal|title=Sociology And Social Anthropology In India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Z2E1q1JLVsC&pg=PA289|accessdate=27 June 2013|year=2009|publisher=Pearson Education India|isbn=978-81-317-2034-9|page=289}}</ref> In [[Maharashtra]], India, the mathadis are organised under a welfare board, set up in compliance to the Maharashtra Hamal, Mathadi and other unprotected workers (Regulation of [[Employment]] and Welfare) Act 1969.<ref name="Wu2007">Fulong Wu. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=1XMKxEkmkdIC&pg=PA113 China's Emerging Cities: The Making of New Urbanism]''. Routledge; 13 November 2007 [cited 27 June 2013]. {{ISBN|978-1-134-11771-0}}. p. 113.</ref> There are 36 Mathadi boards in Maharashtra.<ref name="GoM-20130627">{{cite web|url=http://www.mahashramm.gov.in/lc/mathadi_boards.html#|title=Act/Rules|publisher=Government of Maharashtra|accessdate=27 June 2013}}</ref><br />
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According to the Act, "Mathadi means a person carrying a load of material either on his head (Matha) or on his back to stack at the appropriate place. These operations include loading unloading stacking, carrying, weighing, measuring or such other works including work preparatory or incidental to such operations."<ref name="GoM-20130627" /><br />
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