People group profile · PG041526
The Chaudhri of India
The Chaudhri of India, numbering about 420,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Gujarati-speaking scheduled tribe of Gujarat who claim Rajput descent and live mainly by settled cultivation. They are mostly Hindu, organized into Mota and Nana divisions with exogamous clans, and are also known as Chodhara.
They are an indigenous people in the South Asian Tribal people cluster of the South Asian Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism, and they primarily speak Chodri.
Fast facts
- Country
- India
- Population
- 420,000
- Affinity group
- South Asian Peoples
- People cluster
- South Asian Tribal
- Primary language
- Chodri (cdi)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC ?
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority ?
- Expanding Unreached People Group
- Region
- Southern Asia, Asia
- Location
- Gujarat (statewide); also Karnataka, Maharashtra
Where they live
Gospel status
The Chaudhri are Engaged yet Unreached, which means fewer than 2% are evangelical Christians, but there are sustained efforts to establish self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. In GSEC terms, this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Chaudhri
- Continue prayer and fasting for this group
- Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
- Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people
Primary religion
Animism · Ethnoreligion
95% adherents
Primary language
Chodri · Indo-European family
100% speak Chodri
Gospel resources in Chodri
- Bible available, published 2006
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Chodri)
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Chaudhri
- 2 Timothy 2:2. Pray for faithful local leaders who will teach others, so that the church multiplies.
- Ephesians 5:8. Pray that those walking in darkness will turn to the light and live as children of light.
- Romans 10:14–15. Ask God to send messengers, so that people can hear, believe and call on the name of the Lord.
- Matthew 9:37–38. Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest field.
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