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Kurmi Agitation
September 26 , 2025
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- The Adivasi Kurmi Samaj will resume protests in Purulia, West Bengal.
- The Kurmi community is demanding Scheduled Tribe status across parts of West Bengal, Jharkhand, and Odisha.
- Kurmis were included among the communities classified as STs in the 1931 Census and were excluded from the ST list in 1950.
- In 2004, the Jharkhand government recommended that the community be added to the ST list rather than be categorised as OBCs.
- Kurmis are mainly a peasant community, with their population concentrated in the Jungle mahal areas or the Chota Nagpur plateau of West Bengal, Jharkhand, and Odisha, and a few bordering areas of Bihar.
- After 1950, when the Scheduled Tribe list was prepared in independent India, Kudmis did not find a place on it.
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