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2 unusual facts about Marwari


Marwari

Those communities, whose traditional occupation has been as traders, include the Agarwals, Khandelwals, Maheshwaris, Oswals, Mahawar Vaishya and Poddars.

Shankar Sarda

Though he was a Marathi language writer but he was born to a Maheshwari Marwari family.


Bagar, Jhunjhunu

The Jhunjhunu region, in which Bagar is located, is famous for being the ancestral home of many well known Marwari business families, including the Piramals, Lakshmi Mittal, and the Birla family.

Birgunj

In addition to Nepali, several other languages are spoken in the town including Bhojpuri, Hindi, Maithili, Nepal Bhasa, Marwari and English.

Culture of Chennai

A regional hub since British times, other prominent communities are the Anglo Indian, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati and Marwari communities and people from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

Dravidian languages

Dravidian place-names along the northwest coast, in Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat, and to a lesser extent in Sindh, as well as Dravidian grammatical influence such as clusivity in the Marathi, Konkani, Gujarati, Marwari, and to a lesser extent Sindhi languages, suggest that Dravidian languages were once spoken more widely across the Indian subcontinent.

Guru Jambheshwar

In Marwari Khejri is also called Janty(जांटी) to honour the courage and scarifies of great Jatnis who didn’t even care for their lives to save Khejri tree .

Marwari Boys' College

Marwari College is a B++ NAAC graded institution.

Marwari language

Marwari is generally written in the Devanagari script, although the Mahajani script is traditionally associated with the language.

The Marwari language was used in the recent Indian movie, Paheli, where it was mixed with Hindi so it is understandable to the main stream (Hindi speakers) audience.

Naharkatiya

The town is an amalgamation of many communities from different states of India, mainly Assamese, Bengali, Rajasthani, Bihari and many Marwari people reside in the town area.

Valaikaapu

Similar ceremonies are held in other parts of India and in Pakistan, including among Bengali women, Marathi women (who call the ceremony Dohale Jevan डोहाळे जेवण), Punjabi women (who call it Godh-Bharai), Sindhi women, and Marwari women.


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