APPROXIMATE POPULATION OF COMMUNITIES AND CASTES IN KARNATAKA STATE 1971

(population in hundreds)

Sl.No Caste/ Appropriate Percentage

Community population to the total
population
of
karnataka
state
1 Agasa 3,424 1.17
2 Banajiga 4,575 1.56
3 Beda 13,792 4.71
4 Brahmana 12,465 4.25
5 Darzi 895 0.30
6 Devanga 3,041 1.04
7 Gangakula 6,342 2.16
8 Ganiga 1,248 0.42
9 Idiga 7,275 2.48
10 Kshatriya 1,077 0.36
11 Kumbara 1,501 0.51
12 Kuruba 20,031 6.84
13 Lingayat 45,324 15.47
14 Marata 11,859 4.05
15 Meda 391 0.13
16 Madali 1,544 0.53
17 Nayinda 1,663 0.57
18 Neygi 1,955 0.67
19 Rajput 603 0.21
20 Satani 503 0.17
21 Thigala 2,102 0.72
22 Uppara 3,037 1.04
23 Vokkaliga 37,766 12.89
24 Vaishya 1,993 0.68
25 Viswakarma 6,639 2.27
26 Yadava 3,410 1.16
27 Lamani 2,455 0.84
28 Waddar 4,952 1.69
29 Nayar 338 0.12
30 Kodaga 617 0.21
31 Other non 9,684 3.31
scheduled
Hindu caste
Total non 2,12,502 72.53
scheduled
hindus
 32 Schedule 38,500 13.14
castes
33 Schedule 2,313 0.79
tribes
Total 2,53,135 86.46
Hindus
34 Muslims 31,133 10.63
35 Christians 6,130 2.09
36 Jainas 2,189 0.75
37 Buddhists 141 0.05
38 Sikhs 68 0.02
39 Zoroastrians 11 Negligible
40 Jews 2 Negligible
41 Others 1 Negligible
(whose
religion is
not know)
Total 2,92,990 100.00
Enumerated figures in 1971 census