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in the oil pressers and for the purpose of obtaining the desired results from the animals, they were often blinded. This made them ritually impure but later many of them as Yang notes took up the occupation of trading and branched off as
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scheme, with opposition coming from other groups who considered the Teli to be too populous and socio-economically influential to justify the change. In April 2015, Bihar chief
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politics as they sought to achieve categorisation as a Most
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due to tussle between the two groups over political power culminated into replacement of upper castes by the OBCs in the political circle. The Telis along with
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notes the attempts of Teli community to claim different surnames in different censuses in a bid to improve their position in
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