Lodha is the name of various Indian communities and may refer to:
- Lodha people, a tribal people living primarily in the Indian states of West Bengal and Odisha, mostly in the Paschim Medinipur district. A section of the Lodha has converted to Islam, and form a distinct community of Lodha Muslims.[1][2]
- Lodhi (caste), agriculturalist caste primarily found in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh,[3] sometimes categorised as Other Backward Class, but claim Rajput ties and prefer to be known as "Lodhi-Rajput",[4][5][6]
- Oswal, also known as Oswal Lodha, Jain community from Rajasthan.[7]
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- ↑ "West Bengal: Data Highlights the Scheduled Tribes" (PDF). Census of India 2001. Census Commission of India. Retrieved 26 September 2009.
- ↑ "Mayurbhanj, Tribal languages, festivals and culture". Retrieved 26 September 2009.
- ↑ Sharma, Jagdish Saran (1981). Encyclopaedia Indica. Vol. 2. p. 737.
- ↑ Burger, Angela Sutherland (1969). Opposition in a Dominant-Party System. University of California Press. p. 27.
- ↑ Syed Siraj ul Hassan (1920). The Castes and Tribes of H.E.H. the Nizam's Dominions, Volume 1. Asian Educational Services. p. 400. ISBN 978-8-12060-488-9.
- ↑ Chauhan, Brij Raj (1980). Extending frontiers of sociological learning. Meerut University. Institute of Advanced Studies. Dept. of Sociology, Institute of Advanced Studies, Meerut University. p. 55.
- ↑ Rajputana (1879). The Rajputana gazetteers. p. 249. Retrieved 16 April 2015.