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Chaukalshi

ethnic community of Maharashtra and Goa

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ5088146 ↗
Source-derived summary

Chaukalshi is an ethnic community of Maharashtra and Goa.

They are related to Panchkalshi community. It is a local folk that they are one of the original tribes, who migrated to Bombay in 13th century AD with King Bhimdev. The community is widespread mostly across konkan region from Palghar district to Ratnagiri district in Maharashtra.

Post independence of India, there were some efforts for unification of Chaukalshi & Panchkalshi tribes and a foundation named Kshatriya Parishad was founded in 1949 for the purpose.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Chaukalshi” as ethnic community of Maharashtra and Goa. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Chaukalshi, ethnic and community.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1949—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Chaukalshi, ethnic and community providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5088146. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1949.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chaukalshi” 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.