Lambadi Community

Recently, the issue of Scheduled Tribe status for the Lambadi community in Telangana has again reached the Supreme Court, reviving a decades-old controversy.

  • The Lambadi people are also known as Sugali, Banjara, Gormati, Vanjara and Gor.
  • There are one of the Scheduled Tribes communities spread out mostly in southern part of India like Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and some parts of Northern India.
  • They speak Gor Boli also called Lambadi which belongs to the Indo-Aryan Group of Languages.
  • These people live in “Tanda” keeping a distance from non-banjara people.
  • Tattoos are very common in this ....
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