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== Caste/tribe ==
{{See also|Caste system in India}}
Caste and community statistics as recorded from "Socially and Educationally Backward Classes Commission" (SEBC) or Mandal Commission of 1979, which was completed in 1983.

India has chosen not to officially count caste population since then.

The following data are from the Mandal report:{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}<!-- WP:RS needed; removed link to WP-->

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Caste/Tribe demographics (1983)
! Caste/Tribe
! Population
! Percentage
! Notes
|-
| '''Total population'''
| '''731,000,000'''
| {{percentage bar|100}}
| *Margin of error 0.34%
|-
| '''Scheduled castes and tribes'''
| '''164,913,600'''
| {{percentage bar|22.56}}
|
|-
| Scheduled castes
| 110,015,500
| {{percentage bar|15.05}}
|
|-
| Scheduled tribes
| 54,898,100
| {{percentage bar|7.51}}
|
|-
| colspan="4" |
|-
| '''Non OBC/SC/ST Hindu castes/communities'''
| '''128,509,800'''
| {{percentage bar|17.58}}
|
|-
| Brahmin (including Bhumihar)
| 40,351,200
| {{percentage bar|5.52}}
|
|-
| Kshtriyas(Rajput)
| 28,509,000
| {{percentage bar|3.90}}
|
|-
| Maratha
| 16,155,100
| {{percentage bar|2.21}}
|
|-
| Jats
| 7,310,000
| {{percentage bar|1}}
|
|-
| Vaishya, Bania, etc.
| 13,742,800
| {{percentage bar|1.88}}
|
|-
| Kayasthas
| 7,821,700
| {{percentage bar|1.07}}
|
|-
| Others [ Including Yadavs (Kshtriyas) ]
| 14,620,000
| {{percentage bar|2}}
|
|-
| colspan="4" |
|-
| '''Non-Hindu communities and groups'''
| '''121,346,000'''
| {{percentage bar|16.6}}
| '''Non-Hindu scheduled and OBC'''
|-
| Muslim (Non S.T)
| 81,798,900
| {{percentage bar|11.19}}
| {{percentage bar|0.02}}
|-
| Christian (Non S.T)
| 15,789,600
| {{percentage bar|2.16}}
| {{percentage bar|0.44}}
|-
| Sikh (Non scheduled)
| 12,207,700
| {{percentage bar|1.67}}
| {{percentage bar|0.22}}
|-
| Buddhist (Non S.T)
| 4,897,700
| {{percentage bar|0.67}}
| {{percentage bar|0.03}}
|-
| Jain (Non scheduled)
| 3,435,700
| {{percentage bar|0.47}}
|
|-
| colspan="4" |
|-
| '''Other backward classes and communities (OBC)'''
| '''380,120,000'''
| {{percentage bar|52}}
| '''*OBC is a derived figure'''
|-
| Hindu OBC
| 318,716,000
| {{percentage bar|43.60}}
|
|-
| Non-Hindu OBC
| 61,404,000
| {{percentage bar|8.40}}
| '''*52% of Non-Hindus'''
|}