Marwadi (Bania): Deccan

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Marwadi (Bania)

This article is an extract from THE CASTES AND TRIBES OF H. E. H. THE NIZAM'S DOMINIONS BY SYED SIRAJ UL HASSAN Of Merton College, Oxford, Trinity College, Dublin, and Middle Temple, London. One of the Judges of H. E. H. the Nizam's High Court of Judicature : Lately Director of Public Instruction. BOMBAY THE TlMES PRESS 1920 Indpaedia is an archive. It neither agrees nor disagrees with the contents of this article. Secondly, this has been scanned from a book. You can help by sending the corrected version/ additional information to the Facebook page, Indpaedia.com. All information used will be duly acknowledged.

Marwadi Bania, Mahajan, Sahukar — a ferm denoting the com- mercial classes that came from Marwar and settled in these dominions. They are found all over the country, but chiefly abound in the icities of Hyderabad, Aurangabad, Jalna, Parbhani, Nander, Gulbarga and other centres of commercial activity. Among native traders they occupy a pre-eminent rank, being mill-owners, bankers, brokers, money-lenders, grain and cloth dealers and shopkeepers. The majori- ty of these settlers keep in communication with their native land, visiting it from time to time, and many return home in old age to pass the remainder of their days in peace. They^ are fine looking, tall, strongly built men with affable manoers and industrious habits. Their thrift and love of money is proverbial.

Internal Structure

The Marwadi Banias include (1) Mesri or Mahesri, (2) Agarwal, (3) Oswal, (4) Porwal, (5) Shrawak and several other sub-castes.