Mahuri
Mahuri is a Hindu caste jāti. Mahuri are reported to have migrated from the city of Mathura and surrounding rural locations to the then sub of Bengal under the Mughal Empire. As a faithful community, the Mahuri Vaishya community still continues to worship Mata Mathurasini Devi, an incarnation of Shakti, as their family deity.[citation needed]
History
[edit]Scores of families reached Bihar-E-Sharif located in the present day state of Bihar, India. Over a period of several decades, the Mahuri Vaishya folks reached the hinterland of Chota Nagpur Plateau (or Chhota Nagpur) and got located in a number of villages.[citation needed]
Before this, they had already settled in several fertile locations of the areas of the Magadha. Ultimately, the heritage city of Gaya, in several senses, emerged as the "capital city" of all the Mahuri Vaishya people.[citation needed] From the early 20th Century, several mahuri families migrated to the places located in the present day states of the West Bengal Jharkhand Chhattisgarh and Odisha. By the end of the last century, the dynamism of the Mahuri Vaishya took them to several parts of India, particularly to the metropolitan cities of Calcutta, New Delhi and Mumbai. A number of them have also shed their traditional vocation of trade and commerce, and are engaged in a variety of other professions.[citation needed]