Who is Rabari and where they came from
Rabari witch is also known as Desai, Dewasi, Hirvanshi, Rebari, Rebadi and Rayka, Rabari means outsiders This is because of the occupation. Rabari’s main business use to be raising cattle, Like camel, goat and cow. These cattle need lots of space for barns. They cannot live in a town and have room for their cattle. They started living on the outskirts of towns beyond for this necessity. They gave name to such community Dhani. Dhani means Basati (community). As it was out side the main community. So the name became Rabari for these people.
Another myth is very prevalent, that Rabari are the descendant of lord Shiva. Rabari are the remnant of Huns, who invaded India in the fifth century AD. The Hun king Mihirakla converted to Hinduism in sixth century. King Mihirakula adapted Hindu religion, and became a devotee of Lord Shiva. Lord Shiva is the destroyer of evil in Hindu mythology. King Mihirakula certainly followed his God. In the wake of his conquest of northern India, he not only conquered the territory, but destroyed many human lives and property in the process.
Now a days a very small percentage of Rabari are nomadic. (1-2%) Most of the grazing land is gone in India. , because of an increase in human population. After independence of India, many other opportunities opened up in business and education. So most Rabari at present day have settled down in their original communities, and are engaging in commerce and agriculture. Many have entered into politics. In state of Gujrat some Rabaries became ministers and some became member of parliament in Delhi. Education has opened up other avenue for them. So many became lawyers,engineers,teachers,nurses,dentists,doctors and MOD staff. Not all Rabari live in India now,some who wanted a better life,live abroad in countries like Canada,USA,UK and Australia and many other countries.
so what do you think about this post please write in comments share your idea and views about rabari community.
Comments (64)
Awesome brother…keep updating…
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ખુબ ખુબ ધન્યવાદ મોહનભાઈ….
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Mohan Desai Reply:
April 26th, 2010 at 2:25 am
હેમરાજ ભાઈ આપના સાથ વગર આ મુસ્ખીલ હતું,આપે બહુ બધું કામ કર્યું છે તો ધન્યવાદ આપને પણ.
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prachi Reply:
May 21st, 2011 at 4:39 pm
hi Mohan you are Doing good job… really love your work… want to meet you some days… you are the real superstar of our samaj… i think people are just talking but you are really working from back stage.. thanks lot dear… if you need any Help from me then drop email on my id.. i am happy to answer you and help you…
thanks … love u…
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HARDIKKUMAR HARISHBHAI RABARI Reply:
November 26th, 2011 at 8:05 am
KEM CHO MAJA NE HARDIK RABAI FROM NADIAD AT:MARIDA DIST:KHEDA TA:NADIAD MY MESSAGE IS EDUCATION IS MOST IMPORTENT TOPIC TO THE RABARI SAMAJ
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Your doing a great job for our community.Can you write this article in English or Hindi? Most of the Rabari’s live in Rajasthan and North India and it’s hard for them to understand Gujrati. Could you please update this article in English?
We, Rabaris are moving quite fast. Could you also update us on Rabari’s achievements ?
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Mohan Desai Reply:
April 26th, 2010 at 2:22 am
hi Rashmi this article is in English and we are try our best to write in Hindi also …we know we have very good amount of rabaris in rajasthan also and most of theme using Hindi as second language… btw thanks for the comment , hope we get some more comments from you..
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Bhupat Chavda Reply:
October 11th, 2010 at 3:51 pm
hey congrates! You got appreciations a lot. But please show your courtsey to wikipedia.com from which you have copied this information with no changes in its language too.
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hiiiiii i m kalpesh from jawaibandh(raj)
job in mumbaui,,,,,,,,,,
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Mohan Desai Reply:
May 8th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
હે કલ્પેશ ભાઈ રામ રામ ભલે પધાર્યા … even i am also from mumbai .. contact with me.. so we can meet..
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mara khayalthi apne sindh prant mathi avya hata ane pa6i rajasthan ma aya hata ane rajasthan thi gujarat ma aya hata ane amuk loko rajasthan ma vasi gaya ane amuk alag alag gujarat ma
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hi
i am satish chand raika from mathura.i want to say that our community has no existance in UP.
there is not any record of our rabari community.please suggest what i do for making aware UP government.
i will wait for reply.
regard,s
satish chand raika from mathura(UP)
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Mohan Desai Reply:
September 7th, 2010 at 3:19 pm
hey satish thats good that you are reading this blog and i have forwarded email to you check that and replay me… we will do some thing for this.
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contact me NO -7500613930
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Hi Good efforts, but require some more details.
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it’s very very good keep it up my brother…
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hey do you have a book of “GUJRAT RABARI SAMAJ” By Arjun rabari
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Hi………
I am jaswant jhala
CHARTERED ACCOUTANT STUDENT
MY E- MAIL ID-
cajaswantjhala@gmail.com
m.n. 09479705818
I am very happy to see our social website
but it is in Gujarati so i can not read this.
please update it in ENGLISH $ HINDI
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Hi i am neeraj rewari from rajgarh m.p. M.sc.(ag.)entomology 25 year old presently work in horticulture dept. Mo.no.9754828808 email-nlali.rewari@mail.com
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Hi i am from rajgarh m.p. M.sc.(ag.)entomology 25 year old presently work in horticulture dept. Mo.no.9754828808
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hy my name is jaimin desai from gujarat study in mbbs my mobile number +919712142623
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this is good work dude at lest all we know about our past.
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hi! i m mba student, @ very happy with your work for our social side. thank with heart
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dear mohanbhai, ram ram , bhai you should try to encourage your brothers to study, as rabari’s are growing wealthy ,today particularly in Gujarat, i have many good freinds and always entertain and inform them to push their child for education as your new generation will be able to be competetive in growing globalisation, i always admire your traditions kept intact even if a rabari man is high educated he never forgets his tradition, this is surely admirable,anyhow u should try to aware them of current happenings,when ever their is meeting of your samaj. vipul patel.best luck
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Mohan Desai Reply:
April 17th, 2011 at 3:19 am
thanks vipul bhai for the suggestion and i like that non-rabari also visiting this site and geting information about our samaj. yes education is our priority and we are working on it.. so we will publish more news on education.
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vijay rabari Reply:
December 25th, 2011 at 9:42 am
@ JAY GOGA @
hi moan bhai RAM-RAM
mare aapni website ma sign up karvu 6e pan thai nathi rahyu to sir pls su problam 6e janavso.
your faithfully
vijay rabari
{banaskantha}
hal-ahemdabad
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Mohan Desai Reply:
December 26th, 2011 at 6:51 am
su Message aave che? su error aave che jara janavso?
Dear Mohan,
You are realy great man and we have proud about you. Whatever you have done it is demand of the days. This is the right way to keep together our youth and other people.
Have nice day and regards,
Lagdhir Rabari
From Motera, Ahmedabad
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Hey Mohan,
Really great work is carried out by the rabarisamaj.com. This is the place where all the literate persons share their views and give their effort to enhence the education in our community.
One more function may be added on the site which is for uploading the books regarding our society and any other which is more useful for our students.
Nowadays many more e-books are available online also. They can read/download from our site and also share books.
Brother, i know that this one is very tough task to run any blog or site but you may take voluntery help from our boys also.
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Dear Sir,
My name is Kulbir Singh I belong to Rabari caste I did my diploma in mechanical engg Presently i m working in Escort Ltd Faridabad (Haryana)Plz suggest me what sshould i do?
My email id-kulbirchauhan94@gmail.com
Cont.no.09718636347
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Hi Mohan, I hope you are fine.. this is Suraj Desai..working as Sr.Software Engineer…
I am really impressed by your efforts towards ours community.. we are doing very well now a days.. still
we need to be improved in many areas.. One of them is Education.. if we can improve education then we can
do a lot.. believe me nothing is impossible for us…
if you want any kind of support from me.. you can contact me without any hesitation…my id is :suraj.desai12@gmail.com
Yeah.. I have also written blog.. have a look on it..
Hiravanshi – The Royal Blood
Jay Valinath… Jay Goga…
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Ritu Reply:
September 2nd, 2011 at 6:05 am
Hello Sir,
I am Ritu from ahmedabad, my sister is doing BCA.. Looking for
project training for her final sem.. can u help her any way..??
Thanx..
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Suraj Desai Reply:
September 8th, 2011 at 5:23 am
Hii Ritu..
on what technology your Sis is having confidance that she can do development?? any way you can forward ur Sis’s CV to my id: suraj.desai12@gmail.com
tell her to prepare for aptitude and technical…
Regards…
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Priti Rabari Reply:
September 10th, 2011 at 2:19 pm
Hii Suraj,
.. 
)???Nice blog… I am persuing my MBA in finance. filling good that rabari men(rough men) are in a software field where actual brain is used!!!!! just kidding man… actaully I am impressed by you really. you are a inspiration to other guys and gals of ours SAMAJ as well…
Hows you ? where are you from
we are performing good today.. we are having ours presense everywere…
Mohanbhai and team also doing well for SAMAJ…
Dear all.. Be global…Be Everywere…
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SAMAJ VATI AAPNO KHUBKHUB abhinandan
…….I LIKE YOUR WORK
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Hello Maro Rudo Rabari Samaj
Jay Goga…Jay Valinath…
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hi, this is brinda….i jst started reading this information the first line itself states Rabari and then Witch it completely changes the meaning for the initial line…rest it is a good initiative
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Hi !!!!!
My self Ankit Rajiya. I m Student of MBA.
IN Todays time Lewel of Womens Education is at lower Lewel Than Comparing with other Communities……
and also Especially in my are like Tharad-Waw in Banaskantha District there is Womens Education is Poor…. So i Feel same about that Sign of our Community…..
Todays Govt. also gives importance to womens Education……
So… why We not…. It is also a Big Issue For Future in our Community…..So….we need to work on it……
…….JAY GOGA…….to all of you Brothers……
I will wait for your kind Replyyyyyy……..
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dearsir,
hi me poonamram devashi
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Jay Valinath…
Jay Goga…
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ક્યાનો મેલો છે ??
ફરવાનિ મજા પડિ ગઈ લાગે છે…..
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hi i am study & job so i khnow rebari is very low in educaton so i try all rebari top in edication & high post in govt. job
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hi im mohan foram rajstnhan banswada mdrup ki dhne avrey my samag bhiey and seshter ko ram ramsa
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HELLO FRIEND,, I AM MAHESH DESAI, FROM SURAT.
YOU ALL DID A GOOD JOB MY FRIENDS, PLEASE KEEP IT UP,
I WANT 2 JUST SAY
JAI HO VIHOTER NAT NE,,,,,
VI-VIS(GUJRATI) -20
HO-SO (GUJRATI) -100
TER-TER (GUJRATI)-13
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TOTAL 133 OUR INNER RABARI CAST.
LIKE CHARAKTTA, KHATTANA , AAL, SOBAD, GAMBHLIYA, GONGOL, VERANA, BALYA………………
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jay vadvala
i am bhima shelana from sihor, bhavnagar,gujrat.i am mechanical engineer. rabari samaj na vadilo, matao,vhala bhaio ane beno ne bhiama shelana na ram ram……
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Jay goga
Jay maa jodh sikotar
Jay dwarkadhish
I am manish sambod from ahmedabad. I am a mechanical engineer.I am working in essar steel.
Mari vali vihotar ne manish sambod na ram ram……..
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i joinig at the in may samaj lika
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jay vadavala………………
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jay goga
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i am kush desai from karai gam.i am working in my father business.
mari vali vihotar ne dil thi ram ram .
kush desai(kasela)
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jay goga smst bhaio ne
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jay mataji
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great work.thanks for your effor.
Best of luck..
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DEWASI=DEW+WASI (where hold in god )samaj ke sabhi bhai- bahno ko mera ghanna-ghanna RAM RAM specially mohan bhai
“mohan bhai is iron men in rebarisamaj”
Thanx have nice day
Regards
c shekhar dewasi (job in raj. police)
bansa (kuchaman city)nagour
rajasthan 9680005070
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Mohan Desai Reply:
January 15th, 2012 at 2:41 am
Ram Ram Bhai…. thank you so much dear…
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jay somnath , mara rabari samaj ne samast rabari samaj seva trust somnath taraf thi jay vadvala
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i lik ur work dude gud going keep it up…..im also rabari….n im fro hubli…
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Interesting info abt rabari community… Quite a unique community… But there are still some areas where the community lags behind… Like education esp. For girls, child marriage…. I have a couple of frnds from dis community… Dey are very well educated n work in reputed companies… But one of dem was married when he was a kid… Recently he was told by his family dat dey had married him… He had no idea at all… When he told me abt dis i was shocked… I had no idea dat such things happened for real…. Thought all i see in tv is fiction… Also his female cousin was made to drop out of school as dey didnt want girls to get too educated… N da guy other liked a girl but she was from another community.. When he asked his parents dey refused saying dat dey do not accept marriage to other communities… N dey have now fixed his marriage to some girl… My frnd got very depressed fell sick n was hospitalised… poor guy….. Now i donn say dat one should not listen to parents or marry outside community… But dere is nothing wrong in wanting to marry someone u like…
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1st i give congratulation to mohanbhai and i thing we need more for our next generation that they can meet online and share their probelms from each other. and i suges all students to take help from sinior and make bright your life as star.
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hello mohan bhai , congrats for creating a such a useful plateform for people of our community living differ state and abroad. sharing views ,art and culture,civilization of differ state along with their language.
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Hello mohan bhai Ram Ram with advance HAPPY HOLI !
SHEKHAR DEWASI
9680005070
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Happy to read a story of samaj
and Happy to know more from your side
so Kindly Request you to upate any more
if you have
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haappy
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samast rabari bhai o ne mara vishnu kari na raam raam se jay shree kesar bhavani cheahar maa .jay shree chamunda maa. jay mahakali maa jay gogo maharaj jay dhwarka dhish hu aa msg web said tamari joine lakhayo se maru samaj pragati na panth upar rahe tevi gogo ji ne prathna karusu’ real estate business baba corporation .v.d.
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