Bawane Kunbi Vikas Mandal Amravati

In the Central Provinces the Kunbis belong to the Nagpur, Chanda, Bhandara, Wardha, Nimar and Betul Districts of the Central Provinces. Here they form the principal cultivating class over the whole area except in the jungles of the north and south, but strongly in the Buldana District to the west, where in some taluka nearly half the population belongs to the Kunbi caste. The name has various form

s in Bombay, being Kunbi or Kulambi in the Deccan, Kulwadi in the south Konkan, Kanbi in Gujarat, and Kulbi in Belgaum. In Sanskrit inscriptions it is given as Kutumbika (householder), and hence it has been derived from kutumba, a family. A chronicle of the eleventh century quoted by Forbes speaks of the Kutumbiks or cultivators of the grams, or small villages.