Country: State: District:

Major People Groups *

127

Major Unreached People Groups *

112

Total Population

3,169,000

Buddhist

0.0 %

Christian

8.3 %

Hindu

85.0 %

Muslim

6.6 %

Sikh

0.0 %

Other Religions

0.1 %
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Photo People Group Population
in District
Population
in Country
% Country
Popl in District
Primary Language Primary Religion Community
Category
Progress
Scale
Pallan (Christian traditions) 51,000 482,000 10.6% Tamil Christian OBC Progress Gauge
 Pallan (Hindu traditions) 230,000 2,570,000 8.9% Tamil Hindu SC Progress Gauge
 Panan 2,600 246,000 1.1% Tamil Hindu OBC Progress Gauge
Panikkan 3,100 37,000 8.4% Tamil Hindu OBC Progress Gauge
Paraiyan (Christian traditions) 99,000 822,000 12.0% Tamil Christian OBC Progress Gauge
 Paraiyan (Hindu traditions) 127,000 2,306,000 5.5% Tamil Hindu SC Progress Gauge
 Pashtun Afridi 1,500 514,000 0.3% Urdu Muslim OBC Progress Gauge
 Pashtun Yusafzai 1,300 913,000 0.1% Urdu Muslim OBC Progress Gauge
 Pashtun, Pathan 8,000 12,041,000 0.1% Urdu Muslim OBC Progress Gauge
Perumal Makkukkaran 70 1,500 4.7% Telugu Hindu OBC Progress Gauge
 Puthirai Vannan 700 31,000 2.3% Tamil Hindu SC Progress Gauge
 Rajaka Dhobi (Hindu traditions) 6,200 12,582,000 0.0% Hindi Hindu OBC Progress Gauge
 Rajput (Hindu traditions) 2,600 48,473,000 0.0% Hindi Hindu OBC Progress Gauge
 Sayyid 7,100 8,390,000 0.1% Urdu Muslim OBC Progress Gauge
 Shaikh Qureshi 2,900 8,640,000 0.0% Urdu Muslim OBC Progress Gauge
 Shaikh Siddiqi 1,600 7,956,000 0.0% Bengali Muslim OBC Progress Gauge
 Shaikh unspecified 28,000 90,380,000 0.0% Urdu Muslim OBC Progress Gauge
 Sinhalese, general 100 4,700 2.1% Sinhala Buddhist OBC Progress Gauge
 Sonar (Hindu traditions) 1,100 8,327,000 0.0% Hindi Hindu OBC Progress Gauge
 Syrian Christian 1,900 3,912,000 0.0% Malayalam Christian OBC Progress Gauge
 Tamil (Muslim traditions) 153,000 3,366,000 4.5% Tamil Muslim OBC Progress Gauge
 Thoti, caste 1,200 12,000 10.0% Telugu Hindu SC Progress Gauge
Tiruvalluvar 50 1,700 2.9% Tamil Hindu SC Progress Gauge
 Vaddar (Hindu traditions) 2,100 3,820,000 0.1% Telugu Hindu OBC Progress Gauge
Vadugan 1,300 23,000 5.7% Telugu Hindu OBC Progress Gauge
  Major Groups (displayed):  127 3,142,000           112
  All Groups (including small not displayed *):  281 3,169,000           248
* District level entries that are less than 1,000 individuals AND less than 1% of the groups total in the country are not displayed.

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