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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL


                                                                                        MINDMAP

                                                STD VII (HISTORY)


                                           MODULE- 23 (page 94 - 97)


                       CH- 7: TRIBES, NOMADS AND SETTLED COMMUNITIES










                                                   TRIBES, NOMADS AND

                                                   SETTLED COMMUNITIES



                      NOMADS AND MOBILE PEOPLE LIVED                              NEW CASTES AND HIERARCHIES


                                                                                             New Castes

                      Nomads                       Itinerant groups                 - castes or jatis emerged
                - wandering people        - crafts persons, p  eddlers and          within varnas
                - Pastoralists            entertainers                              - appeared amongst the

                - moved from one          - travelled from one place to             Brahmanas
                pasture                   another                                     Rise of Rajputs
                - With their flock        - practicing their different              - Kshatriyas, new rajput
                and herds of              professions.                              clans became powerful
                 animals                  Banjaras                                  - replaced the old rulers
                - Pastoralists
                 reared and sold          - Important nomadic traders               - support of the Brahmanas
                animals                   - Important for the economy               - Deliberations on Jati
                                          - used caravans, called tanda                - Tiruchirapalli Taluka
                - They changed            - Peter Mundy, an English                    - Sabha of Brahmanas
                goods and animal
                                          trader                                      -  Rathakaras (chariot makers)
                products
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