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'''Jatav''', also known as '''Jatva'''/ '''Jatan'''/ '''Jatua'''/ '''Jatia''',<ref>{{Cite book |url= https://books.google.co.in/books?id=mBowAQAAIAAJ&dq=jatua+jatav&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=jatav |title=The scheduled castes |last=Singh|first=Kumar Suresh|publisher=Anthropological Survey of India|year=1993|pages=326, 329, 331}}</ref> is a social group that in India are considered to be a part of the [[Chamar]] caste, one of the [[Dalit]] communities , who are classified as a [[Scheduled Caste]] under modern India's [[Reservation in India|system of positive discrimination]].<ref name="Chandel 1990 51"/>

According to the [[2011 Census of India]], the Jatav community of [[Uttar Pradesh]] comprised 54% of that state's total 22,496,047 Scheduled Caste population.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Jatavs-on-top-of-SC-population-in-UP/articleshow/47931787.cms |title=Jatavs on top of SC population in UP |date=4 July 2015 |work=The Times of India}}</ref> In [[Rajasthan]], the Jatavs form 24% of the Scheduled Caste population.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Scheduled castes in Rajasthan |first=Umesh Kishor |last=Jonwal |journal=CASIR |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=578-586}}</ref>