Patidar
Indian agriculturist caste / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Patidar (Gujarati: Pāṭidār[1]), formerly known as Kanbi (Gujarati: Kaṇabī[2]), is an Indian land-owning and peasant caste and community native to Gujarat. The community comprises at multiple subcastes, most prominently the Levas and Kadvas. They form one of the dominant castes in Gujarat. The title of Patidar originally conferred to the land owning aristocratic class of Gujarati Kanbis; however, it was later applied en masse to the entirety of the Kanbi population who lay claim to a land owning identity, partly as a result of land reforms during the British Raj.