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The Bagdis are indigenous people, descended from people with Dravidian links, found in the Indian stateofWest Bengal and Bangladesh, who were associated with professions like cultivation and fishing.[2][3] They are related to the Duley caste.[4] The Bagdis are populous in Bankura, Birbhum and other districts in the western fringe of West Bengal. The Bagdi along with the Duley represent the most numerous Scheduled castesofWest Bengal.[5][6][7] Bagdis claim themselves as 'Barga Kshatriya'.[8][9]
J.N Bhattacharya described the Bagdis as an aboriginal tribe, who were fishermen, woodcutters, and litter carriers. The Bagdis were also known as the criminal tribe of Bengal under Criminal Tribes Act of the British.[3]
The Bagdis numbered 2,740,385 in West Bengal in the 2001 Indian census and were 14.9 percent of the Scheduled caste population of West Bengal. 47.7 percent of the Bagdis were literate – 60.4 percent males and 34.8 percent females were literate.[10]
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