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Caste
The Rabari community is scattered over the north west that is Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, and in the west Gujarat. They are also called raika, rabha, devagi, and Utwalle. Most of the Rabaris are vegetarian and have their staple food as bajra, jowar and wheat but some of them eat non vegetarian occasionally. Rabaris are also believed to the descendent of the Rajpoots as they have shared the same surnames like Rathod, Solanki, Bhati, Parmar etc with them. These surnames or clans are also known as, ‘ NAKH’ in Rabaris. These clans are further divided into branches which is termed as SHAKHS. The Shakhs are knows as “VIHOTAR’ which means Vis ( 20 ) + Sau (100) + Ter ( 13 ) which sums up to 133, that is the total number of Shakhs. They have Casts like Laltuka, Nagoh, Moidav, Bhungor, Kola, Aal, Khambhalya, Khatana, Ghangol, Bhangra, Kalotara, Mori, Bhumbhaliya, Savdharia, Punchlya, Kodiyatar, Bharai etc.

Population
The total population of Rabari in India is around 10,61,000 which is spreaded across 20 states. The largest proportion of Rabari community lives is Rajasthan which is about 645,000 then followed by Gujarat which has around 3,83,000 people residing and then many other places which have smaller proportion of Rabari people living. Most of the population speaks Gujarati as a medium of communication, but marwari, mewari, kucchi, and other indigenous languages is also been used by the Rabari community. The main occupation of the people is grazing the herds of sheep and cattle and selling the products which are being made by the milk fetched from the cattles.