Wagher
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Wagher, Vagher or Waghir (Gujarati: ISO 15919: Vāghēr or ) is a jāti from the Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat in India. They speak Kutchi as a mother tongue.
Wagher, Vagher or Waghir (Gujarati: ISO 15919: Vāghēr or ) is a jāti from the Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat in India. They speak Kutchi as a mother tongue. ==History== ==Present circumstances== The community still speaks Kutchi, and are endogamous. They have several clans, the main ones being the Kamora, Vagha, Kara, Manek, Ker, Sumaniya, Gad, Giggla, Mapani, Jam, Tilayat and Bhagad. The community maintain the practice of clan exogamy. They are a major landowning community in the Dwarka sub-division of Jamnagar District. The community are still mainly farmers, but like other Gujarat castes, they have migrated to other parts of India and overseas in search of work. Many Muslim Waghers from Kutch are employed in fishing. In 1993 the Mandal Commission classified the Waghers as an Other Backward Class. ==See also== Mer Jadeja ==References==
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