Bharmaur tribal area comprises Bharmaur and Holi tehsils of the Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh. It is a notified tribal area since 21 November 1975. Bharmaur is inhabited by ‘Gaddi’, a tribal community who have maintained a distinct identity in the Himalayan region as they practised transhumance and conversed through the Gaddiali dialect.

In the 1970s the Gaddis were included in which of the following groups/list?

Scheduled Tribes

The process of development of the tribal area of Bharmaur started in the 1970s when Gaddis were included among ‘scheduled tribes’.