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	The '''Parahiya''' are a [[Hindu]] [[Caste system in India\|caste]] found in the state of [[Uttar Pradesh]] in [[North India]].		The '''Parahiya''' are a [[Hindu]] [[Caste system in India\|caste]] found in the state of [[Uttar Pradesh]] in [[North India]].

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The '''Parahiya''' are a [[Hindu]] [[Caste system in India|caste]] found in the state of [[Uttar Pradesh]] in [[North India]].

==Origin==
The name ''Parahiya'' is said to mean in the [[Gondi language]] ''the burners of the forest'' because they practice [[slash and burn]] agriculture. According to other traditions, the name is corruption of the word ''Paharia'', which in [[Hindi]] means a hill dweller. They are one of a number of tribal communities such as the [[Panika]] that occupy the foothills of the [[Vindhya Range|Vindhya]] mountains. The community speak a dialect of Hindi.<ref name="poi">People of India Uttar Pradesh Volume XLII Part Three edited by A Hasan & J C Das page 1120 to 1124 Manohar Publications</ref>

==Present circumstances==
The habitat of most of the Parhiya is the hilly, undulating and extremely forested southern part of [[Sonbhadra district]], at the foot of the Vindhya mountains. They are [[endogamy|endogamous]] and divided into a number of [[exogamy|exogamous]] clans known as kuris, of which the main ones are the Bengeha, Bhaloa, Bhania, Bhusan, Gohawa, Gurgur, Monnoor and Sira. Although they are Hindu, they also have a number of their own tribal deities such as Jawalamukhi Devi and Dharti Mata.<ref name="poi" />

The Parahiya depend on the forest for their subsistence. They are small landholding community. Hunting and gathering forest produce is an important source of their income. They collect roots, tubers, fruits, lacs and leaves, which they sell at the local market. They no longer engage in hunting as settled cultivation is now their occupation.<ref name="poi" />

The [[Government of Uttar Pradesh]] had classified them as a [[Scheduled Caste]] but by 2007, they were one of several groups that it had redesignated as [[Scheduled Tribes]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=State At A Glance - Uttar Pradesh |date=July 2007 |journal=Pratiyogita Darpan |volume=2 |issue=13 |page=81|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7egDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT72|last1=Darpan |first1=Pratiyogita }}</ref> As of 2017, this designation applies only in [[Sonbhadra district]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tribal.nic.in/WriteReadData/CMS/Documents/201212010356439267578File1068.pdf |title=State wise Scheduled Tribes — Uttar Pradesh |publisher=Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India |accessdate=2017-02-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123041643/http://tribal.nic.in/WriteReadData/CMS/Documents/201212010356439267578File1068.pdf |archivedate=2016-11-23 }}</ref> as it also did at the time of the [[2011 Census of India]] when the Parahiya Scheduled Caste population in Uttar Pradesh was 2446.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/PCA/SC_ST/PCA-A10/SC-0900-PCA-A-10-ddw.xlsx |title= A-10 Individual Scheduled Caste Primary Census Abstract Data and its Appendix - Uttar Pradesh |publisher=Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India |accessdate=2017-02-04}}</ref>

==References==
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