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| rels             = [[Hinduism]] • [[Islam]]
| related          = [[Garha]] • [[Jat people|Jats]] • [[Gurjars]] • [[Med people|Meds]]|
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'''Tyagi''', originally called '''Taga''', is a cultivator caste who claim Brahmin status.<ref name="Tribecasteandpeasantry">{{cite book|author=Binod C Agrawal.|title=Tribe,Caste and Peasantry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QUEiAAAAMAAJ&q=taga%20or%20tyagi|year=1974|publisher=Ethnographic & Folk Culture Society,U.P.|page=188}}</ref> The landholding community is confined to [[Western Uttar Pradesh]], [[Haryana]], [[Delhi]] and [[Rajasthan]]. They are often considered the highest of the agricultural castes.<ref name="SociologicalStudyofFolklore">{{cite book|author=Satya Prakash Arya|title=Sociological Study of folklore|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X8bYAAAAMAAJ&q=a+Sociological+study+of+folklore|year=1975|publisher=Indian Publications|page=116}}</ref> During the [[British Raj]], they changed their name from Taga to Tyagi, and began claiming Brahmin status.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rath|first=Saroj Kumar|title=India as a Model for Global Development|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|year=2018|editor-last=Masaeli|editor-first=Mahmoud|pages=91|chapter=Satyagraha and Social Justice in India|editor-last2=Prabhakar|editor-first2=Monica}}</ref> As of a 1990 report by the Backward Classes Commission, Government of Haryana, they were mostly engaged in farming.<ref name="Commission1990">{{cite book|author=Haryana (India). Backward Classes Commission|title=Report of the Backward Classes Commission, 1990, Government of Haryana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aH3aAAAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Controller of Printing and Stationery|page=105}}</ref><ref name="PeopleandCultureofBengal">{{cite book|author=Annapurna Chattopadhyaya|title=The People and Culture of Bengal, A study in Origins|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MiRuAAAAMAAJ&q=the%20people%20and%20culture%20of%20bengal%20a%20study%20in%20origins|year=2002|publisher=Firma K.L.M.|page=489|isbn=9788171021444 }}</ref> The Government of Haryana granted reservation to Tyagis along with five other castes in 2016.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Tribune|date=9 May 2016|title=Tyagis, Rors eye quota at Centre|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/features/tyagis-rors-eye-quota-at-centre-233868}}</ref> However, the [[Punjab and Haryana High Court]] shortly put a stay on the government's order.<ref>{{cite news|title=Stay on quota for Jats in Haryana|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/features/hc-stay-on-quota-for-jats-in-haryana-242830|newspaper=The Tribune|date=27 May 2016}}</ref>
==Religion==
The name Tyagi is prevalent in both [[Hindu]] and [[Muslim]] communities.<ref name="ref62fibiy">{{Citation | title=Tribe, caste, and peasantry | author=Kripa Shankar Mathur, Binod C. Agrawal | year=1974 | publisher=Ethnographic & Folk Culture Society, U. P., 1974 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YnqwAAAAIAAJ |page=189 | quote=... The present Hindu and Muslim Tyagis are the descendants of a common ancestor ...}}</ref> Community members who converted to [[Islam]] are known as Muslim Tyagis,<ref name="ref06culiv">{{Citation | title=Rural-urban articulations | author=Brij Raj Chauhan, Unesco | year=1990 | publisher=A.C. Bros., 1990 | isbn=978-81-85489-01-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zenZAAAAMAAJ | quote=... In Saharanpur district SC Dube described the Tyagi village where half of the population is of Muslim Tyagi and the other half of the Hindu Tyagi ...}}</ref> Mulla Brahmin, Musalman Taga, Mahesra and Moolay Taga.<ref>''History of origin of some clans in India, with special reference to Jats'' (1992), Mangal Sen Jindal, Sarup & Sons, p. 159</ref>
==Diet==
Members of the community are generally vegetarian but some do eat non-veg food.<ref>{{cite book|title=India's communities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jw9uAAAAMAAJ&q=Tyagi|page=3414-3415|author=KS Singh| date=17 September 1998 |publisher=OUP| isbn=978-0-19-563354-2 |quote=''Delhi'': They are vegetarian but do not take masur dal, onion and garlic. However, tendency to consume non-vegetarian food has been observed....''Haryana'': They are vegetarian but a few among them have started taking eggs and meat.....''Uttar Pradesh'': They are vegetarian. Wheat, rice and maize are their staple cereals.}}</ref>
==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{Cite book |title=Factional Politics in an Indian State: The Congress Party in Uttar Pradesh |first=Paul R. |last=Brass |author-link=Paul Brass |publisher=University of California Press |year=1965 |url=https://archive.org/details/factionalpolitic0000bras|url-access=registration }}
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