Jogi

The Jogi (also spelled Jugi or Yogi) are a Hindu community, found in North India and Sindh, Pakistan, with smaller numbers of ancient north migrants in the southern Indian states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

Jogi is a colloquial term for the "yogi", which refers to the people who practiced Yoga as part of their daily rituals. Over time, this led to the formation of a community, and subsequently was formed into a caste.

The Jogi are followers of yoga an Ascetic Warriors or Jogi Kshatriya whose Gotra(lineage origin) is Lord Shiva himself a God of War and he is the Clan Deity (Kuladevata) of them. As followers of yoga, they traditionally wear saffron-colored clothing. The community once comprised lineage members only, but now are outnumbered by the other caste members.They and their descendants form a caste with two sub-groups, the Kanphata and Augur. In North India, they speak Hindi and its various dialects.

The term Jogi now consists of three distinct classes of persons. One is purely religious mendicants of the various Jogi orders, the second includes various people who live by fortune telling, practising exorcisms and divination. And finally, there are a number of endogamous castes.

The Jogi of Sindh are both Hindus as well as Muslims; their presence is in districts and places such as Khairpur District, Tharparkar, Larkana, Shikarpur District, Sukkur, Naushahro Feroze District of Sindh province in Pakistan. The Jogi of Sindh are scattered in various parts of Sindh, the Jogi's of Mirpur Khas, Umer kot and Badin districts of Sindh are declared under common name with other tribes as Dalit by the Government of Pakistan. Gogo Chohan is honored as a 'saint' of 'jogis' or snake charmers of Tharparkar. The most famous flute singer Misri Jogi is from Tharparkar. One of the Rajpar tribe's subcaste is Jogi who are inhabitants in Thari Mirwah Khairpur. These Jogi are landlord, businessmen and other professions.

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