Central India

Pray for the new believers among the Sonar people group, which was the largest unengaged and unreached people group until recently. May the church grow and multiply among the Sonars.

Mumbai, the metropolitan edge of the central India, shifts dramatically between a place of dreams and a place of physical, spiritual and financial distress. The financial and film industry capital of India, this city is home to almost 14 million people. Slum dwellers make up half of the city and have been called the most harvestable of any 6 million people on earth. Far from Mumbai in the state of Madhya Pradesh, on the other edge of the cluster, the Kanha Jungle is where Rudyard Kipling wrote the story The Jungle Book.

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Indian States Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh
Language Hindi, Marathi
Religion Hindu 85%, Muslim 14%, Christian 2%. Most of the world’s Parsis and Jains.
Population 170,000,000

Below is a list of the priority UUPGs:
{Please note the PEID# for any people group you are interested in.}

People Group PEID Country Population Primary Religion
Mali (Marathi) 47903 India 2,934,357 Hinduism
Lingayat (Marathi) 47928 India 2,222,986 Hinduism – Shivaism
Lodha 48358 India 2,003,546 Hinduism
Bania (Marathi) 48034 India 1,998,652 Hinduism
Jains (Marathi) 47963 India 1,556,096 Jainism
Gujjar (Hindi) 47947 India 1,386,332 Hinduism
Jain (Hindi) 47959 India 899,533 Jainism
Gadaria (Hindi) 47956 India 946,379 Hinduism
Ager 42066 India 825,472 Ethno-Religion
Nai 46283 India 799,155 Hinduism