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{{Short description|Title used by Koli chieftains in India}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=November 2018}}

'''Garasia''' alternatively spelled '''Girasia''',<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Bayly |first=Susan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HbAjKR_iHogC&q=Girasia+title+Koli |title=Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age |date=2001-02-22 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-0-521-79842-6 |location=[[New Delhi]], [[India]], [[Asia]] |pages=84: They also tended to disparage other arms-bearers whom the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]]s and their succes sors had found both useful and problematic, especially the notables who had been vested with titles like '''Girasia''' or ,'''Girishi Raja''', meaning someone from [[Koli people|Koli]] or other arms-bearing lineages with the authority of a 'kingly' self-made Rajput lord |language=en}}</ref> '''Girasiya''' or '''Garasiya''', is a [[Indian honorifics|title]] used by [[Tribal chief|tribal chieftains]] and members of other arms bearing lineages in [[India]] who held the villages as ''Giras'' granted by rulers.<ref name=":0" />

== Social order ==
Present-day Garasias are characterised by several social divisions with well-defined relationships. These divisions have appeared out of situations of culture contact and acculturation. Today Garasias are divided into [[Koli people|Koli]] Garasia, [[Rajput Garasia|Rajput]] Garasia, [[Dungri Garasia|Dungri]] Garasia and [[Bhil Garasia|Bhil]] Garasia.{{sfnp|Mann|1993|p=103|ps=}}{{sfnp|Mann|Mann|1989|pp=81-82|ps=}} The Koli Garasiya were [[tributary]] to the ruler of state who gave the Giras.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Hardiman |first1=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8EsfAQAAIAAJ |title=Feeding the Baniya: Peasants and Usurers in Western India |last2=Hardiman |first2=Professor of History David |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-19-563956-8 |location=New Delhi, India |pages=178 |language=en}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Molesalam Rajput]], a [[Muslims|Muslim]] community

== References ==
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'''Bibliography'''
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* {{citation |title=Culture and Integration of Indian Tribes |last=Mann |first=Rann Singh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a7BBAYDfoAIC |isbn=978-8-18588-003-7 |publisher=M. D. Publications Pvt. Ltd. |year=1993}}
* {{citation|title=Tribal Cultures and Change |first1=Rann Singh |last1=Mann |first2=K. |last2=Mann |publisher=Mittal Publications |year=1989 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q29TcbHrMfUC}}

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== Further reading ==
*{{cite book |title=Identity, Gender, and Poverty: New Perspectives on Caste and Tribe in Rajasthan |first=Maya |last=Unnithan-Kumar |publisher=Berghahn Books |year=1997 |isbn=978-1-57181-918-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b9ktWLud0oIC}}
*{{Ethnologue18|gra|Garasia, Rajput}}
*{{Ethnologue18|gas|Garasia, Adiwasi}}

== External links ==
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=qrxsDwAAQBAJ&dq=Koli+Garasiya&pg=PA84 Gujarat: The Long Fifteenth Century and the Making of a Region by Aparna Kapadiya]

[[Category:Koli titles]]
[[Category:Social groups of Rajasthan]]
[[Category:Scheduled Tribes of Rajasthan]]
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