Country: State: District:

Major People Groups *

96

Major Unreached People Groups *

81

Total Population

2,279,000

Buddhist

0.0 %

Christian

7.5 %

Hindu

87.5 %

Muslim

4.8 %

Sikh

0.0 %

Other Religions

0.2 %
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Photo People Group Population
in District
Population
in Country
% Country
Popl in District
Primary Language Primary Religion Community
Category
Progress
Scale
 Navithan 43,000 819,000 5.3% Tamil Hindu OBC Progress Gauge
Pallan (Christian traditions) 29,000 464,000 6.3% Tamil Christian OBC Progress Gauge
 Pallan (Hindu traditions) 164,000 2,471,000 6.6% Tamil Hindu SC Progress Gauge
Palleyan 100 2,000 5.0% Tamil Hindu ST Progress Gauge
Palliyan 3,200 6,400 50.0% Tamil Hindu ST Progress Gauge
Palliyar 3,200 6,000 53.3% Tamil Hindu ST Progress Gauge
 Panan 2,000 237,000 0.8% Tamil Hindu OBC Progress Gauge
Panikkan 4,100 36,000 11.4% Tamil Hindu OBC Progress Gauge
Paraiyan (Christian traditions) 43,000 790,000 5.4% Tamil Christian OBC Progress Gauge
 Paraiyan (Hindu traditions) 92,000 2,215,000 4.2% Tamil Hindu SC Progress Gauge
 Pashtun, Pathan 2,400 12,879,000 0.0% Urdu Muslim OBC Progress Gauge
 Pathiyan 300 18,000 1.7% Malayalam Hindu OBC Progress Gauge
Patnulkaran 400 1,000 40.0% Tamil Hindu OBC Progress Gauge
Pulaya Vettuvan 20 1,100 1.8% Malayalam Hindu OBC Progress Gauge
 Pulayan unspecified 3,100 1,551,000 0.2% Malayalam Hindu SC Progress Gauge
 Puthirai Vannan 1,000 30,000 3.3% Tamil Hindu SC Progress Gauge
 Rajput (Hindu traditions) 20,000 38,905,000 0.1% Hindi Hindu OBC Progress Gauge
 Rajput Surajbansi 1,600 262,000 0.6% Hindi Hindu OBC Progress Gauge
 Sayyid 3,600 8,061,000 0.0% Urdu Muslim OBC Progress Gauge
 Shaikh Qureshi 2,200 8,301,000 0.0% Urdu Muslim OBC Progress Gauge
 Shaikh unspecified 17,000 100,866,000 0.0% Urdu Muslim OBC Progress Gauge
Silpi 2,200 212,000 1.0% Telugu Hindu OBC Progress Gauge
 Syrian Christian 2,600 3,759,000 0.1% Malayalam Christian OBC Progress Gauge
 Tamil (Muslim traditions) 74,000 3,235,000 2.3% Tamil Muslim OBC Progress Gauge
 Vaddar (Hindu traditions) 1,500 3,671,000 0.0% Telugu Hindu OBC Progress Gauge
  Major Groups (displayed):  96 2,251,000           81
  All Groups (including small not displayed *):  221 2,279,000           193
* District level entries that are less than 1,000 individuals AND less than 1% of the groups total in the country are not displayed.

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