Gadia Lohars is a nomadic community

Community

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 of Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

, India

India

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 . They are also found in Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh

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. They are Lohar ( ironsmith) by profession who move on from one place to another place on bullock cart, which in Hindi is called 'gadi'. Hence the name 'Gadia Lohar'. These Lohars are different from the Lohar

Lohar

Lohar is an ethnic sub-caste found among Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims in Northern India and Northern Pakistan. Originally this community was a warrior tribe living in provinces of Kermanshah in Iran right up to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. In India the Lohars are also known as Vishwakarma, Sharma,...

 clan of Iran, Pakistan and India. They usually make and repair agricultural and household implements.

Their origin is shrouded in legend.