{"id":349235,"date":"2025-11-04T14:16:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T08:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=349235"},"modified":"2025-11-04T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:03:00","slug":"ramnami-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ramnami-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramnami Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>At Chhattisgarh Foundation Day in Raipur, Prime Minister wore Ramnami tribe\u2019s peacock-feather crown.<\/p>\n<h2>About Ramnami Tribe<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_349240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-349240\" style=\"width: 286px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-349240\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Source-Ramnami-Community.jpg?resize=286%2C330&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Source-Ramnami-Community.jpg?resize=260%2C300&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Source-Ramnami-Community.jpg?w=765&amp;ssl=1 765w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-349240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; Ramnami Community<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The Ramnami tribe is a <strong>Hindu sect<\/strong>\u00a0that <strong>worships Lord Ram<\/strong> and <strong>tattoos \u201cRam\u201d<\/strong> on their <strong>bodies<\/strong> while wearing <strong>peacock-feather headgear<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>: They live mainly in <strong>villages along the Mahanadi river in Chhattisgarh<\/strong>, some also live in <strong>border regions of Maharashtra and Odisha.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Origin<\/strong>: The Ramnami Samaj emerged in the 19th century as a <strong>peaceful resistance movement against the prevailing caste system in India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Started by<\/strong>: It was started by <strong>Parsuram Bhardwaj<\/strong>, in the 1890s, the son of a low-caste sharecropper.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Right to inscribe Ram<\/strong><strong>\u2019<\/strong><strong>s name <\/strong>: In <strong>1910<\/strong>, the Ramnami Samaj was taken to court by upper-caste Hindu groups over this unique practice, but they <strong>won the case and the right to inscribe Ram<\/strong><strong>\u2019<\/strong><strong>s name<\/strong> on their bodies, clothing, and living spaces.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Process of tattooing<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The process of tattooing is carried out <strong>manually<\/strong> by <strong>appointed senior Ramnamis.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They utilize <strong>two wooden needles<\/strong>, making it an <strong>intensely painful<\/strong> endeavor.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>ink<\/strong> used is created from the <strong>soot obtained by burning kerosene oil in an earthen pot.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key features<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Those with full body tattoos are knows as<strong> &#8220;<em>purnanakshik<\/em><\/strong><strong>&#8220;<\/strong> and are mostly in their seventies.<\/li>\n<li>They believe in a <strong>formless divine entity<\/strong>, whom they worship as the &#8216;<strong>One True God&#8217; identified as Ram<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>They <strong>prioritize gender equality.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They wear <strong>shawls printed with \u201cRam<\/strong>,\u201d adorn <strong>peacock-feather crowns<\/strong>, and <strong>use ghungroos in dances and Bhajan performances.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They hold a <strong>three-day Bhajan Mela<\/strong> at the end of the harvest season in December\u2013January in the village of <strong>Sarsiwa<\/strong> in <strong>Raipur district<\/strong><strong>, <\/strong>\u00a0Where they <strong>erect a jayostambh<\/strong> (a white pillar with the name of Ram inscribed on it),\u00a0 and chant from the <strong>Ramcharitmanas<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: At Chhattisgarh Foundation Day in Raipur, Prime Minister wore Ramnami tribe\u2019s peacock-feather crown. About Ramnami Tribe The Ramnami tribe is a Hindu sect\u00a0that worships Lord Ram and tattoos \u201cRam\u201d on their bodies while wearing peacock-feather headgear. Location: They live mainly in villages along the Mahanadi river in Chhattisgarh, some also live in border regions&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ramnami-tribe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ramnami Tribe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11212,12039,11210],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-349235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-knolls","category-personalities-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}