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There is no conceivable way that people in Gujarat would like to see a serial about a Dubla family. These things, drinking and eating meat, inexorably stigmatized them for Gujaratis, but I didn’t see it that way as a child. They are in the habit of smoking for the last 10 years". The Dhed, the same volume says, are “non-vegetarians: eating mutton, beef, fish, eggs etc." who “consume alcohol especially at the time of Narasingh Devta Puja. The volume says Dublas “are non-vegetarian, consuming mutton, fish, chicken and eggs". Enthoven, who put together The Tribes And Castes Of Bombay as saying: “The Dublas or weaklings, as their name is said to mean, are a feeble people, soon aged by their hard life and their fondness for liquor".
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Volume 22, Part 2 of the People Of India series quotes R.E. Growing up in Surat, I learned words of abuse (Dubla, Dhed, Bhangi) that I discovered much later were names of scavenging and other lower castes.ĭubla was used for someone who was dirty (“Dubla jevo che"). The question then produced is: Do we see other castes as being off-putting? And I would say yes to that also. Srinivas (whose house is down the lane from mine) called this Sankritization-the process by which a lower caste adopted the practices of a caste above it. Even the lower castes will admit this through practice and it’s a subject for serious academic study. All together, these will not make up more than 2% of India’s population.Īre we a nation that sees some castes as more attractive than others? The answer is of course yes. The question is-why do most of the serials feature these basic types? They are either Banias, Punjabi mercantile communities or Rajputs. Both this show and the other Muslim show, Qubool Hai on Zee, are produced by the same people, 4 Lions Films. The new show at 10.30pm is Humsafars about a Muslim couple called Pathania and Chaudhry. This show is ending and is being replaced by Itti Si Khushi starting 29 September, whose protagonist is a Goel (Bania).ĩ:30pm has Hum Hain Na, about the Mishra and Mukhopadhyay (both Brahmin) families. Tumhari Paakhi at 9.30pm has the Rathores (Rajput).Īt 8pm Sony Entertainment Television airs a show called Adaalat whose protagonist, a lawyer, is Pathak (Brahmin).Īt 8.30pm is Ekk Nayi Pehchaan starring the Modi (Bania) family. Life OK’s show at 8.30pm is Ek Boond Ishq about the Shekhawats, a family of Rajputs from Shekhawati. The new show at 11pm is Shastri Sisters, whose main families are Brahmin (Shastri and Pandey) with some characters (Sareen) who are Khatri. Uttaran at 10.30pm has the Chatterjee (Brahmin) family and also some martial characters of Rajput origin (Rathore, Bundela). It has the Parekh (Gujarati Bania) with a protagonist who is a Gujarati Rajput (Vaghela). The show at 10pm is Meri Aashiqui Tum Se Hi. I’m not sure what Kundras are and the name doesn’t appear in my volumes of People Of India, published by the Anthropological Survey of India.Īt 9pm is Beintehaa, a serial whose protagonists are Muslims from the Abdullah family.Īt 9.30pm, Rangrasiya has the Mehras (Punjabi Khatri) and Ranawat (Rajput) families. Its show at 8.30pm, Madhubala-Ek Ishq Ek Junoon, has the Sharma (Brahmin) family with a protagonist who is a Kundra. The main families are the Singhanias (Banias) and Jadhav, which is a generic Maharashtrian name, but most often used by Marathas.Īt 11.15pm Pavitra Rishta has the Kirloskar (Brahmin) and Deshmukh (Maratha) families. The show at 10.45pm is Ek Mutthi Aasmaan. Rathores are the dominant Rajput community from Marwar. Quraish is the tribe of Muhammad, but is also the most common surname of north Indians from the Kasai (butcher) community.Īt 10pm Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya has the Khandelwal family, who are Banias.ĭoli Armaanon Ki at 10.30pm is set in the Rathore family. Both names are generic and don’t really show caste. These are all three Punjabi mercantile communities which are either Khatri or Arora.Īt 9.30pm is Qubool Hai, a show with Muslim protagonists from the Khan and Qureshi families. Rana is the title given to the leader of the Sisodiya Rajputs of Mewar (Rana Pratap).Īt 9pm, Zee shows Kumkum Bhagya, starring the families Arora, Mehra and Khanna. She belongs to a super-rich Rajasthani family on the fringes of royalty". The channel says the protagonist “Shivani Rana was born and raised in Jaipur. Zee TV’s 8.30pm daily is Do Dil Bandhe Ek Dori Se. The main family here is the Goenkas, a Bania surname under the Agarwal community. It features families called Bhalla, Arora and Khurana, which are Punjabi trading communities from the Arora and Khatri communities.ġ1.30pm has Ek Hasina Thi. A still from ‘Ek Veer Ki Ardaas-Veera’ on Star PlusĪt 11pm is Yeh Hai Mohabbatein.
