Magar (Maharashtra)
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The Magar are a people constituting the Marathi
Marathi people
The Marathi people or Maharashtrians are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, that inhabit the Maharashtra region and state of western India. Their language Marathi is part of the southern group of Indo-Aryan languages...

 ethnic group of Maharashtra
Maharashtra
Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. The Magars are probably part of the Maratha
Maratha
The Maratha are an Indian caste, predominantly in the state of Maharashtra. The term Marāthā has three related usages: within the Marathi speaking region it describes the dominant Maratha caste; outside Maharashtra it can refer to the entire regional population of Marathi-speaking people;...

 caste-complex.

The Magar hamlet of Magarpatta
Magarpatta
Magarpatta is a self-contained residential cum Industrial / Corporate settlement spanning over 400 Acres of land. It is situated along the Pune-Solapur Highway in Hadapsar, Pune, Maharashtra, India. Magarpatta has been in the news for its novel approach to development of housing projects in India...

 near Pune
Pune
Pune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...

was in the news in November - December 2006 following news reports on the success of its Magar inhabitants, originally marginal farmers, in exploiting their landholdings to gain great wealth.

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