Loni maratha Kunabi

This article contains information about Loni Patil community. I am referring to a cast/sect of people from Northwest Maharashtra, India. Loni community is actually called as Loni Patil. Lonis are basically from 'lonargadh', a place from Rajasthan in ancient India. They used to trade in butter and other milk products. Due to some unknown reason they had to migrate to maharshtra. After the migration they turned to farming. (source of this information is 'Vanshavali' a record book kept by Kashmiri pandya's who frequently travel from north India to interiors of maharshtra.) In Maharshtra farmers are known as "Kunabi". Lonis, are also referred as Loni Kunabi. Loni community have their population concentrated in Jalgao, Dhule, Nasik and few other districts of north maharshtra. Most of the educated people migrated to Mumbai, Pune and Aurangabad for better career opportunities and are settled in cosmopolitan areas.