Bhil
Bhil or Bheel is an ethnic group in western India. They speak the Bhil languages, a subgroup of the Western Zone of the Indo-Aryan languages. Bhils are members of a tribal group outside the fold of Hinduism and the caste system.
Bhils of Sindh | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 17 Million (2011 Census) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| India | 16,908,907 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 5,993,921 |
| Gujarat | 4,215,603 |
| Rajasthan | 4,100,264 |
| Maharastra | 2,588,658 |
| Karnataka | 6,204 |
| Tripura | 3,105 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 604 |
| Chhattisgarh | 547 |
| Pakistan (Sindh) | 1,200,000 to 1,700,000 (2020) |
| Languages | |
| Bhil languages •Marathi• Gujarati • Sindhi Bhil •Hindi | |
| Religion | |
| Hinduism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Rathwa, Indo-Aryan peoples | |
Bhils are listed as tribal people in the states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan—all in the western Deccan regions and central India—as well as in Bengal and Tripura in far-eastern India, on the border with Bangladesh. Bhils are divided into a number of endogamous territorial divisions, which in turn have a number of clans and lineages. Many Bhils now speak the dominant later language of the region they reside in, such as Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali or a Bhili language dialect.
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