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'''Valmiki''' is a name used by a variety ofcommunities throughout India who all claim descent from the author of the ''[[Ramayana]]'', [[Valmiki]]. The Valmikis can be classified as a caste or [[Sampradaya]] (tradition/sect).<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xxodCgAAQBAJ|title=Hinduism Today: An Introduction|page=117|first=Stephen |last=Jacobs|date=22 April 2010|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=9781441138200}}</ref>

==North India==
In [[North India]] Valmiki, also called [[Chuhra]] or Bhangi, are considered [[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes|Scheduled Caste]]. There they have historically faced exclusion and oppression in society, and are frequently affected by anti-scheduled caste violence and repression by members of other castes.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Narender |last1=Kumar |first2=Manoj |last2=Rai |year=2006 |title=Dalit Leadership in Panchayats: A Comparative Study of Four States |publisher=Rawat Publications}}</ref>{{pn|date=April 2020}} They have traditionally been sewage cleaners and sanitation workers, and most of the manual scavengers in urban areas of northwest India, such as Delhi and Jaipur, are recruited from this community.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Gandhi|first=Neepa|title=A STUDY OF LIVELIHOOD AND EDUCATIONAL STATUS OF SANITATION WORKERS IN AHMEDABAD, GUJARAT|url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Priti-Gogoi/publication/307906497_Assessment_of_Urban_Drainage_characteristics_of_Jorhat_Municipality_Assam/links/57d14b6008ae0c0081e00e63/Assessment-of-Urban-Drainage-characteristics-of-Jorhat-Municipality-Assam.pdf#page=168|journal=International Journal of Research in Management & Social Science|volume=3|pages=163-198}}</ref>

According to the [[2001 Census of India]], the Valmikis formed 11.2 per cent of the [[Scheduled Caste]] population in [[Punjab (India)|Punjab]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Tables_Published/SCST/dh_sc_punjab.pdf|publisher=Census I |title=Punjab: Data Highlights: The Scheduled Castes |year=2001|access-date=2015-01-05}}</ref> and were the second-most populous Scheduled Caste in [[Delhi|Delhi National Capital Region]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Tables_Published/SCST/dh_sc_delhi.pdf|title=Delhi: Data Highlights: The Scheduled Castes |year=2001 |publisher=Census India|access-date=2015-01-05 |page=1}}</ref><ref>Leslie, J.(2003) Authority and Meaning in Indian Religions: Hinduism and the Case of Valmiki. Ashgate publishing. {{ISBN|0754634302}}</ref>{{pn|date=April 2020}}
The [[2011 Census of India]] for [[Uttar Pradesh]] showed the Valmiki population, which was classified as a Scheduled Caste, as 1,319,241.<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 |access-date=2017-02-04}}</ref>

==South India==
In [[South India]] the term is mainly used as a self-identification by the [[Boya (caste)|Boya]] or Bedar Nayaka caste, a traditional hunting and martial caste who are considered as [[Backward caste]]s in Andhra Pradesh and Scheduled Tribe in Karnataka. The Valmikis are mainly concentrated in [[Anantapur district|Anantapur]], [[Kurnool district|Kurnool]] and [[Kadapa district|Kadapa]] districts of [[Andhra Pradesh]] and in Bellary, Raichur and Chitradurga districts of Karnataka, although they are spread all over the state.<ref>{{Citation|url=https://www.odi.org/resources/docs/2692.pdf|title=Caste,Class and Social Articulation in Andhra Pradesh:Mapping Differential Regional Trajectories|publisher=Osmania University}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=All India anthropometric survey: analysis of data. South Zone|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U0uAAAAAMAAJ|author1=J. Sreenath|author2=S. H. Ahmad|publisher=Anthropological Survey of India|year=1989|page=37}}</ref> They also built a temple of [[Valmiki]] in [[Anantapur]], [[Andhra Pradesh]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Festival of Pirs: Popular Islam and Shared Devotion in South India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MfXUAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA169|first=Afsar|last=Mohammad|date = December 2013|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn = 9780199997596}}</ref> In Andhra Pradesh they are known as ''Boya Valmikis'' or ''Valmikis''.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yb2syrYmBaYC&pg=PA42|title=Committees and Commissions in India, 1947-73: 1979 (2 v.)|page=42|author=Virendra Kumar|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|year=1975|isbn=9788170225089}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Beals|first=Alan R.|title=The South Indian World|date=2017-09-29|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351299923-1|work=Village Life in South India|pages=27–44|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-351-29992-3|access-date=2021-08-07}}</ref>

==Other countries==
In the UK, the Council of Valmiki Sabhas UK claims to represent the Valmiki.<ref name=Jacobs>{{cite book |first=Stephen |last=Jacobs |year=2010 |title=Hinduism Today: An Introduction |publisher=A & C Black}}</ref>{{pn|date=June 2020}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200809/jtselect/jtrights/169/169we17.htm|title=Memorandum submitted by Central Valmiki Sabha International (UK)|publisher=[[Parliament of the United Kingdom|United Kingdom Parliament]]|date=12 November 2009|access-date=19 May 2015}} </ref>
==See also==
*[[Mazhabi Sikh]]

==References==
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[[Category:Scheduled Castes of Punjab]]
[[Category:Scheduled Castes of Delhi]]
[[Category:Scheduled Castes of Uttar Pradesh]]

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