Banjara Lifestyle and Community

Abstract

The Lambadi people (also known as Banjara, Gormati, Vanjara and Gor). The community described as perambulant people from north west of India from Mewar region now the location is Rajasthan. There are one of the Scheduled Tribes communities spread out mostly in southern part of India like Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and some parts of Northern India. British Colonial Authorities has passed the Act of 1871 under the preview of Criminal Tribes in 19th century, which made them to give up their classical occupations. Due to the impact some of them resolve into farming and others gone back to the forest. This led to some of them settling down as farmers and others are driven into the forest.