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Bhil Meena

Indigenous peoples of India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ4901721 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Bhil Meena (also spelled Bhil Mina) are a tribal group found in the state of Rajasthan, India.

Mainly they are mixed tribe of tribal Meenas and Bhils.

Social status

As of 2001, the Bhil Meenas were classified as a Scheduled Tribe under the Indian government's reservation program of positive discrimination.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Bhil Meena” as indigenous peoples of India. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bhil, Meena and Indigenous.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bhil, Meena and Indigenous providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4901721. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bhil Meena” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.