page_title: Saharia
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Saharia / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Folk dance by Saharia tribe people of Rajasthan in Kaleshwari Art Fair - 2017 held Kaleshwari Temple, near Khanpur of Mahisagar district of Gujarat, India.
context_page_description: The Sahar, Sehariya, or Sahariya are an ethnic group in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. The Saharias are mainly found in the districts of Morena, Sheopur, Bhind, Gwalior, Datia, Shivpuri, Vidisha and Guna districts of Madhya Pradesh and Baran district of Rajasthan.While Saharia is a common surname in Assam. The claim to this surname is mostly by the Kalita or Kshatriya caste of the Hindu population in Assam. The surnames that the Mathur a sub caste of the Kayastha caste frequently adopt are Dayal, Lall, Chandra, Andley, Berni, Saharia. They are classified as Particularly vulnerable tribal group
context_section_description: The history of the Saharia tribe is spotty and in many places completely lost. The older generations of the Saharia tribespeople fail to give any account of their history, and written records of ancestry are virtually nonexistent. 
  Traditionally, they trace their beginnings to the days of the Ramayana and beyond. They trace their origin from Shabri of the Ramayan. Another theory suggests that Brahma, the creator was busy casting the Universe. He made out a place to seat all persons. In the centre of that place he put a Sahariya who was a simpleton. Others came to join him sitting but they pushed him further from the square centre to an extreme corner or khoont. The story goes that an annoyed Brahma chided the Sahariya for his inability to cope with the pressure and decreed that he would henceforth live in forests and such other out of the way places. Some Sahariya's claim descent from Baiju Bheel, a worshiper of the Hindu god Shiva.
caption: Folks dance by Saharia tribe of Rajasthan in Kaleshwari Art Fair - 2017 held at Kaleshwari
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