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Bhil
Adivashi group in india / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bhil or Bheel refer to various indigenous groups inhabiting western India, including parts of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh and are also found in distant places such as Bengal and Tripura.[4] They speak various languages of Indo-Aryan origin, owing to language shift, collectively referred to as the Bhil languages.[5] Bhils are divided into a number of endogamous territorial divisions, which in turn have a number of clans and lineages.
![]() Bhils of Sindh | |
Total population | |
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17 Million (2011, census) | |
Regions with significant populations | |
![]() | 16,908,907[1][2] |
Madhya Pradesh | 5,993,921[2] |
Gujarat | 4,215,603[2] |
Rajasthan | 4,100,264[2] |
Maharastra | 2,588,658[2] |
Karnataka | 6,204[2] |
Tripura | 3,105[2] |
Andhra Pradesh | 604[2] |
Chhattisgarh | 547[2] |
![]() | 1,200,000 to 1,700,000 (2020)[3] |
Languages | |
Religion | |
Animism |
Bhils are listed as tribal people in the states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan—all in the western Deccan regions and central India—as well as in Bengal and Tripura in far-eastern India, on the border with Bangladesh. Many Bhils now speak the dominant later language of the region they reside in, such as Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali or a Bhili language dialect.