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Marwari Culture

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This research is conducted to find out and explore the culture of Marwari Community. The main focus of this research was to find out the customs, traditions, norms, values, beliefs, religion, language etc. of Marwari community. The research shows the living patterns of the community. The research was very broad and it was very hard to collect the data and information from the concerned community so therefore the simple random sampling technique was used to collect the data. After surveying the area of that particular community the researcher observe many things and the other cultural innovation was explored after conducting the interviews. The interviews was conducted in the area of Ghazdarabad which is now very commonly known as …show more content…

A group of people are identified by their cultural norms, beliefs & values. What really binds men together is culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common (Benedict, 1934). Culture is derived from French term “colere”, which means to grow, or cultivation or nurture. Culture is a way of life that how people are living their lives. Culture is traditional behaviorwhich is developed by human race and learned by each generation. (Mead, 1937). Culture varies from place to place, group to group and country to country. Culture is created by human beings but without culture no human being can be considered as human.
Community means a group of people having a particular characteristic in common such as norms, values, beliefs, religion, language, customs, traditions etc. (Atkinson, 1997). The focus of this research study is on Marwari community which is a South Asian ethnic group which originates from Rajasthan. The word Marwari refers to the state of marwar which is also called the Jodhpur region of southwest Rajasthan in India. Marwari community live mainly in Jodhpur, Bikaner, Barmer, Nagaur, Pali and almost all districts of …show more content…

Marwari is known to have several showing affinity with Sindhi. (Timberg Thomas: 1978) has described the life of this community. He described that the Marwari’s believes in entrepreneurship. The author also wrote that the business was the main reason of migration of this community from Rajasthan to other places. (Dr. T K Taknett; 1990) explained the migration process of this community. He explained that the marwari community started their migration since from 14th century. After 1846 when the circular railway transport system was developed the process of migration increases rapidly. (Timberg; 1978: P-40) suggested that the joint family system culture in marwari community is the strongest part or strongest characteristic in their rise in their profession. According to latest estimates ofWorld Evangelization Research Center,PBS and SBS, Government of Sindh and Pakistan (2000) had confirmed that the population of marwari community in Pakistan is more than 80,900. More than 50000 people of marwari community are living in Karachi, Hyderabad and Tharparkar. (YumnaRufi; 2015) a senior journalist of local Pakistani newspaper surveyed the area of Ghazadarabad which is now very commonly known as “Ranchor Line” Or “Marwari Lane”. After observing the culture of this marwari

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