The Kurmis: A Community’s Struggle for Recognition The Kurmi community, spread across eastern India in states such as West Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha, and Bihar, has once again intensified its demand for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status and the inclusion of the Kurmali language in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution. While they are currently listed as Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in most r...

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