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The '''Lodhi''' (or '''Lodha''', '''Lodh''') is a community of agriculturalists, found in India. There are many in [[Madhya Pradesh]], to where they had emigrated from [[Uttar Pradesh]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hWtDAAAAYAAJ |title=Encyclopaedia Indica |volume=2 |page=737 |last=Sharma |first=Jagdish Saran |year=1981}}</ref> The Lodhi are categorised as an [[Other Backward Class]] but claim [[Rajput]] ties and prefer to be known as "Lodhi-Rajput",<ref>{{cite book|title=Opposition in a Dominant-Party System|url=https://archive.org/details/oppositionindomi0000burg|url-access=registration|first=Angela Sutherland |last=Burger |year=1969|publisher=University of California Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/oppositionindomi0000burg/page/27 27]}}</ref> although they have no account of their Rajput origin or prevailing Rajput traditions.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lYSd-3yL9h0C&pg=PA400 |title=The Castes and Tribes of H.E.H. the Nizam's Dominions, Volume 1 | publisher=Asian Educational Services |author=Syed Siraj ul Hassan |year=1920 |page=400 |isbn=978-8-12060-488-9}}</ref>

[[File:Lodhas, low caste Hindoo tribe, Rajpootana (NYPL b13409080-1125601).jpg|thumb|Lodha tribe of Rajputana.]]