Tirole or Tirale The Kunbi Tirole are an agricultural community found in the Khandesh region of Maharashtra. The community believe that they are Rajputs who migrated from Rajasthan as a result of a general migration of the tribes of Rajputana . Older ethnographic accounts note that a large scalemigration of the community occurred from Rajasthan to Maharashtra in the 18th centuryunder the reign of Raghuji Bhonsle . Thecommunity enjoys a high social status amongother agricultural communities. One reason for their high social status is the fact that some families were chosen to collect revenue in the days of the Maratha Empire . Two separate etymologies exist for the community name. One states that the community is named after the place of their origin: Therol, in Rajasthan. The other states that the community gets its name from their original occupation of Til , or sesame cultivation. The population of the Tirole is greater than that of all other Kunbi communities. Their home districts are Nagpur, Wardha, Amravati and Yeotmal. Although occasional non-vegetarian men are found in the community, the community is mainly and traditionally vegetarian. Based on evidence from an old Marathi document, Karve concludes that the Tirole Kunbi differ significantly from the Kubis west of Nagpur, and that they did not formerly claim to be Kshatriyas. This claim contradicts with Russell and Lal who suggest that the Tirole claim to be Rajputs.
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