WHY IS SEEING VIOLENCE OVER THE AGITATION Historically, Patidar means MAJOR COMMUNITIES IN GUJARAT COMPRISE HOW PATIDARS a landowner ( Pati in ARE SPREAD ACROSS Gujarati means land; dar (% SHARE IN POPULATION) means entitled). Mainly GUJARAT ECONOMICALLY farmers, several Patidars Well-to-do businessmen, went on to invest their industrialists and entrepreneurs surplus from agrarian THAKOR & KOLI 20 Poor, activities into new marginal 9% business enterprises with farmers each passing generation. LEUVA KADVA AANJANA KUTCHI 21% 40% However, today, the ARTISANS, PASTORAL Irrigated COMMUNITIES well-to-do young generation is Higher Lower Already Agrarian, farmers neither inclined towards (RABARIS & caste caste an OBC backward 30% agriculture nor family BHARWADS) AND 20 within within community business, if any. Instead, FISHER FOLKS Patidars Patidars young Patidars now Middle class aspire for jobs in the manufacturing and PATIDAR 15 HOW PATIDARS ARE SPREAD ACROSS ECONOMIC services sectors, where the GUJARAT REGIONALLY STANDING WITHIN quota system has hit them hard, say experts. The THE PATIDARS other trigger for Patidar NORTH GUJARAT Leuvas* youth now demanding an TRIBAL 15 RANN OF KUTCH High average land other backward class (OBC) PATAN MEHSANA holding** quota is the fact that a KUTCH Kadvas* sub-Patidar community, Low and mid-average Aanjana, has been under MUSLIM 10 KHEDA land holding** the OBC quota since about Aanjanas two decades. According to DALIT 7 CENTRAL No land holding; middle GUJARAT estimation based on the or small farmers last caste census in 1931, 5 *Traditionally, Leuvas were Patidars account for 15% AMRELI revenue collectors and, hence, 3 enjoyed higher status and land of Gujarat’s population. A BANIYA JUNAGADH BHAVNAGAR BARDOLI holding than Kadvas; **Not all TOTAL 3 Patidars hold land look at how the JAIN 1 community stands vis-a- 100 SOUTH REST 1 Compiled by Vinay Umarji; Source: Projections based GUJARAT vis others in the state: on 1931 caste census; Social scientists and experts