People group profile · PG048976
The Bhanumati of India
The Bhanumati of India, numbering about 2,300 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are a Scheduled Caste community of magicians and acrobats who trace their name to Bhanumati, wife of Vikramaditya, and migrated from Rajasthan to Madhya Pradesh. They now work mostly as agricultural and daily-wage laborers.
They are an indigenous people in the Rajasthani people cluster of the South Asian Peoples. Their primary religion is Hinduism, and they primarily speak Malvi.
Fast facts
- Country
- India
- Population
- 2,300
- Affinity group
- South Asian Peoples
- People cluster
- Rajasthani
- Primary language
- Malvi (mup)
- Primary religion
- Hinduism
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- Unengaged and Unreached
- Evangelical
- No Known Evangelicals
- GSEC ?
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority ?
- Frontier Unreached People Group
- Region
- Southern Asia, Asia
- Location
- Madhya Pradesh: Bhopal, Dewas, Dhar, Guna, Indore, Mandsaur, Nimuch, Rajgarh, Rathlam, Sehore, Shajapur, and Ujjain districts; Rajasthan: Jhalawar district. Sondwari dialect geographically isolated from the others
Where they live
Gospel status
The Bhanumati are Unengaged and Unreached, which means fewer than 2% are evangelical Christians, and there has been no reported church planting activity in the past two years. 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 No
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Bhanumati
- Pray that God would send workers to this people group
- Begin sowing the gospel and seek out people of peace
- Plant the first churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice
Gospel resources in Malvi
- Bible available, published 2015
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories available
Films
- JESUS (Malvi)
Bibles
- 2012 Malvoday and New Life Literature (वर्जन नाम – मालवोदय) · video, audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Bhanumati
- 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.
- 2 Timothy 2:2. Pray for faithful local leaders who will teach others, so that the church multiplies.
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