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{{Short description|Dalit caste}}
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'''Thori''' are labourer community found in the states of [[Gujarat]], [[Rajasthan]] and [[Haryana]] in India.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IWrTs5yt1DkC&dq=thori+Muslim&pg=PA1377 |title=Gujarat |date=2003 |publisher=Popular Prakashan |isbn=978-81-7991-106-8 |pages=1373–78 |language=en}}</ref> They are also known as the Nayak. They are recognized as [[Scheduled Castes in Rajasthan]].

==History and origin==

The Thori trace their descent from the King Ajaypal, a [[Solar dynasty|Suryavanshi]] [[Rajput]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rajasthan (India) |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Rajasthan_District_Gazetteers/B7lPQFEUUwcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=nayaks+and+suryavanshi+rajputs&dq=nayaks+and+suryavanshi+rajputs&printsec=frontcover |title=Rajasthan District Gazetteers |date=1962 |publisher=Printed at Government Central Press |language=en}}</ref> They claim themselves as commanders in the army of the various [[Rajput]] kings of [[Rajputana]] and with the time, their position of Kshatriya was degraded after conquests of other [[Rajput clans]]. Due to which their they loose their status and separated them from Rajputs, leading to formation of a new identity with the name of Nayak which is title for commander.<ref>{{Cite book |last=General |first=India Office of the Registrar |title=Census of India, 1961: Rajasthan |date=1965 |publisher=Manager of Publications |pages=[https://books.google.co.in/books?id=GLbUAAAAMAAJ&q=nayaks+and+suryavanshi+rajputs&dq=nayaks+and+suryavanshi+rajputs&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=1&printsec=frontcover&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiGx53-o46UAxUQ-zgGHUJ4PF0Q6AF6BAgIEAM 11] |language=en}}</ref>

==Present circumstances==
They are found mainly in the districts of [[Ganganagar]], and Churu. Their spoken language is [[Marwari language|Marwari]].

They are a landless and economically marginalized community working as daily wage labour in the industrial and agricultural sector. They have an effective [[caste]] council, known as the Nayak Samaj, which acts as quasi-judicial body and deals with intra-community dispute. They are Hindus with [[Pabuji]] being their main deity, alongside they also worship [[Gogaji]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Harlan |first=Lindsey |title=The Goddesses' Henchmen: Gender in Indian Hero Worship |date=2003 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-515426-9 |pages=[https://books.google.co.in/books?id=4B-j8Sp2jegC&pg=PA202&dq=nayak+caste+and+pabuji+pabuji&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiDrfyvpY6UAxWr1zgGHXRjGREQ6AF6BAgKEAM 202] |language=en}}</ref>

The Thoris of [[Gujarat]] are also known as Utloiwala, Batwala and Jhori. They have two endogamous groups, the Makwana and Barasia and are a nomadic community, moving in bands of ten and fifteen and live in small reed huts. Like other Gujarat communities, they have a number of clans, called ataks. Their main ataks are the Parmar, Makowara, Gatar, Kharkaria, Bhoping, Narodia, and Mangarchi. The community is still mainly involved with the manufacturing of baskets. Their range is northern and central [[Gujarat]], particularly the districts of Ahmadabad, Surendranagar, [[Sabarkantha]], Panchmahal and [[Baroda]]. Like the [[Rajasthan]] Thori, they speakl [[Mewari]].

==See also==
* [[Dalit]]

==References==

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{{Social groups of Gujarat}}

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[[Category:Other Backward Classes of Haryana]]
[[Category:Other Backward Classes of Gujarat]]
[[Category:Scheduled Castes of Rajasthan]]

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