Dhangar

The model for traditional Indian society
was a collection of endogamous subgroups known as jatis (“birth”). These
jatis were organized (and their social
status determined) by the group’s hereditary occupation, over which each group
had a monopoly. In traditional central
Indian society, the Dhangars were a
Hindu jati whose hereditary occupation
was herding sheep and goats. They
are particularly associated with the state
of Maharashtra.