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'''Vaddera''' (alternatively Vadde, Waddera, Vadar) is a [[Caste system in India|caste]] in [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[Maharashtra]] and some other states in India. | '''Vaddera''' (alternatively Vadde, Waddera, Vadar) is a [[Caste system in India|caste]] in [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[Maharashtra]] and some other states in India. | ||
The Vaddera have traditionally been | The Vaddera have traditionally been stone cutters but many have had to change to agricultural labouring. The effects of mechanisation, usually financed and run by higher caste groups, has caused this change and government recognition of the issues has led to them being designated as an [[Other Backward Class]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Modern Anthropology of India: Ethnography, Themes and Theory |editor1-first=Peter |editor1-last=Berger |editor2-first=Frank |editor2-last=Heidemann |publisher=Routledge |year=2013 |isbn=9781134061112 |page=19 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sBgLb8XIGR8C&pg=PA19}}</ref> | ||
Some Vaddera families in [[Chilakaluripet]], Andhra Pradesh, have been noted as forming a network to groom children for sexual exploitation.<ref>{{cite book |title=Trafficking In Women And Children In India |first1=P. M. |last1=Nair |first2=Sankar |last2=Sen |others=Institute of Social Sciences (New Delhi, India); National Human Rights Commission; UNIFEM South Asia Regional Office |publisher=Orient Blackswan |location=New Delhi |year=2005 |isbn=9788125028451 |page=351 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1xFnEyqFupUC&pg=PA351}}</ref> | |||
== References == | == References == | ||