People group profile · PG049810
The Kharwal of India
The Kharwal of India, numbering about 697,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an occupational caste of Rajasthan who traditionally prepared shells from salt and now engage in settled cultivation, speaking Harauti and claiming Rajput descent.
They are an indigenous people in the Rajasthani people cluster of the South Asian Peoples. Their primary religion is Hinduism, and they primarily speak Hadothi.
Fast facts
- Country
- India
- Population
- 697,000
- Affinity group
- South Asian Peoples
- People cluster
- Rajasthani
- Primary language
- Hadothi (hoj)
- Primary religion
- Hinduism
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC ?
- Less than 2% Evangelical, Dispersed CP Activity
- Lostness priority ?
- Frontier Unreached People Group
- Region
- Southern Asia, Asia
- Location
- Madhya Pradesh: Neemuch district, 3 other border areas; Rajasthan: Baran, Bundi, Jhalawar, and Kota districts
Where they live
Gospel status
The Kharwal 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 but there has been dispersed church planting among them within the past two years.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years Dispersed Church Planting
Next steps for the Kharwal
- 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
99% adherents
Primary language
Hadothi · Indo-European family
100% speak Hadothi
Gospel resources in Hadothi
- Bible available, published 1822
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Hadothi)
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Kharwal
- 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.
- Ephesians 5:8. Pray that those walking in darkness will turn to the light and live as children of light.
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