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    The document discusses the Vania Soni caste of traders and craftsmen in Gujarat, India. It notes that the Vania Soni is one of several subdivisions of the Vania caste, which includes groups like the Kapol, Nagar, and Jain. The Vania community is believed to have migrated to Gujarat from Rajasthan in the 7th century AD, settling first in the city of Shrimal. Famine and conquest led the Vanias and Brahmins to further disperse from the 14th century onward. Today, the Shrimali Vania Soni number around 200,000-250,000 individuals dispersed across Gujarat, other Indian states,

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    The document discusses the Vania Soni caste of traders and craftsmen in Gujarat, India. It notes that the Vania Soni is one of several subdivisions of the Vania caste, which includes groups like the Kapol, Nagar, and Jain. The Vania community is believed to have migrated to Gujarat from Rajasthan in the 7th century AD, settling first in the city of Shrimal. Famine and conquest led the Vanias and Brahmins to further disperse from the 14th century onward. Today, the Shrimali Vania Soni number around 200,000-250,000 individuals dispersed across Gujarat, other Indian states,

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    Hindou soni

    GABORIEAU Marc, Un autre islam Inde, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Albin Michel, 2007

    P 169 : « Cette économie agraire requiert deux sortes de services. A un niveau élevé, les services religieux et intellec-
    tuels : pour les hindous, ils sont fournis par des brahmanes, qui sont héréditairement prêtres et savants (voire
    astrologues), et les renonçants destinataires obligés des aumônes et sources de bénédictions ; les musulmans ont
    leurs oulémas, parfois simples imams villageois, et leurs soufis qu’on peut assimiler à des renonçants. Au niveau
    inférieur - en ce sens qu’ils sont traditionnellement subordonnés aux cultivateurs - un large éventail d’artisans,
    hiérarchisés selon des critères très stricts. Pour faire simple, on distingue trois strates. D’abord les artisans
    respectables dont le métier n’est pas considéré comme polluant : orfèvres, forgerons, menuisiers, potiers,
    chaudronniers, cardeurs, tisserands, fabricants de bracelets de verre ou de laque, etc. Puis les métiers modérément
    polluants des barbiers, blanchisseurs, bouchers, presseurs d’huile, etc. »

    J. V. Undevia, V. Balakrishnan, R. L. Kirk, N. M. Blake, N. Saha and E. M. McDermid, A Population Genetic Study of
    the Vania Soni in Western, in Human Heredity, Vol. 28, No. 2 (1978), Karger AG, pp. 104-121

    The Vania Soni is but one of the sub-divisions of the Vania in Gujarat Among the other sub-divisions are Kapol,
    Nagar, Jain, Oswal Jain, Kha- dayata, Modh, Lad and Porvad. In all these sub-divisions endogamy is strictly
    maintained. Within each of these sub-divisions there are further sub groups or 'gotras' which enforce exogamy, but
    consanguinous marriage i not allowed among the castes in Gujarat, in common with other north Indian states.

    Historical evidence [Jadía, 1972] indicates the Vania community migrated from Rajasthan. Their presence was
    established in 682 AD in a once prosperous city, Shrimal (now called Bhinmal), and even today most of the Vania and
    some Brahmin groups prefix their names with 'Shrimali'. Because of frequent conquests and the great famine of 1
    176 AD the city of Shrimal is now in a much reduced and ruined condition. The Vanias and the Brahmins, however,
    started to migrate from Shrimal in the 7th century and their exodus was complete by the 14th century

    The present Shrimali Vania Soni are dispersed in the major towns of Gujarat and other Indian States, and many are
    abroad in Africa, UK, and USA. Their chief occupation is craftmanship dealing with gold, silver and diamond
    ornaments, money lending and trading. Their total population is estimated to be 200,000-250,000

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