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'''Darbar''', also spelled as '''Durbar''', is a title of honor or respect used generally in the western [[India]]n State of [[Gujarat]] to refer to a [[Koli people|Koli]]. Darbar is equal to the [[Sanskrit]] word [[Kshatriya]]. Chieftain or Lord of small Principality, which existed in the pre-independence era.<ref name=a>{{cite book|title=Gujarat - Part 3|year=2003|page=1173|isbn=9788179911068|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IWrTs5yt1DkC&pg=PA1533&dq=darbar+bapu+gujarat#v=onepage&q=darbar%20&f=false}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Basu|first=Pratyusha|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zJxY9IWzGewC&pg=PA235&dq=Term+Darbar+koli#v=onepage&q=Term%20Darbar%20koli&f=false|title=Villages, Women, and the Success of Dairy Cooperatives in India: Making Place for Rural Development|date=2009|publisher=Cambria Press|isbn=978-1-60497-625-0|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Williams|first1=Raymond Brady|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rs5JDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT354&dq=Palavi+Darbars+Koli#v=onepage&q=Palavi%20Darbars%20Koli&f=false|title=Swaminarayan Hinduism: Tradition, Adaptation, and Identity|last2=Trivedi|first2=Yogi|date=2016-05-12|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-908959-8|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Lobo|first=Lancy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1DBuAAAAMAAJ|title=The Thakors of north Gujarat: a caste in the village and the region|date=1995|publisher=Hindustan Pub. Corp.|isbn=978-81-7075-035-2|language=en}}</ref>

As such any caste of Koli people or hereditary chieftain of erstwhile [[princely state]]s  may be referred to as Darbar [[Caste#India|caste]] in general use of the word,<ref>{{cite book|title=Gujarat Unknown: Hindu-Muslim Syncretism and Humanistic Forays By J. J. Roy Burma|year=2005|page=140|isbn=9788183240529|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VemsIky3QzEC&pg=PA140&dq=darbar+caste#v=onepage&q=darbar%20caste&f=false|last1=Roy Burman|first1=J. J.}}</ref> although there is no separate notified caste as Darbar. It was a title of honor more in use during [[princely states|princely]] India, which was used to refer to Koli chieftains and is prevalent in use even today mainly in rural [[Gujarat]].

==See also==  

*[[Diwan (title)|Diwan]]

*[[Jagirdar]]

*[[Mansabdar]]

*[[Sardar]]

*[[Thakur (title)|Thakur, Thakore]]

*[[Feudalism in Pakistan]]

==References==

==External links and Sources==  

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080728193104/http://www.uq.net.au/~zzhsoszy/ips/ Indian princely States on www.uq.net.au, as archived on web.archive.org/web]

*[http://www.worldstatesmen.org/India_princes_K-W.html WorldStatesmen - India - Princely states K-Z]