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'[[File:Mallees, or Gardeners (9805808934).jpg|thumb|Malis in western India (c. 1855-1862).]] The '''Mali''' are an occupational [[caste]] found among the Hindus who traditionally worked as gardeners and florists. They also call themselves '''Phul Mali''', who derived their names from their occupation of growing flowers. The Mali are found throughout [[North India]], [[East India]] as well as the [[Terai]] region of [[Nepal]] and [[Maharashtra]].<ref>People of India Uttar Pradesh Volume XLII Part Two edited by A Hasan & J C Das pages 929 to 932 Manohar Publications</ref> In Maharashtra, Malis have agriculture as their traditional occupation and are categorized under OBC (Other Backward Communities) for reservation purposes<ref name="Baviskar">{{cite book|last1=Baviskar|first1=B.S.(Author and Editor)|last2=Mathew|first2=George (Editor)|title=Inclusion and exclusion in local governance : field studies from rural India|date=2008|publisher=SAGE|location=London|isbn=9788178298603|page=22|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PLmGAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false}}</ref> ==Origin== There are many [[Endogamy|endogamous]] groups within Malis. Not all Mali groups have the same origin, culture, history or social standing and there is at least one group, namely, [[Rajput Mali]], from Rajasthan that overlaps with [[Rajput]]s and was included under the Rajput sub-category in [[Marwar]] State Census Report of 1891 CE.<ref>Action sociology and development, pp 198, Bindeshwar Pathak, Concept Publishing Company, 1992</ref>{{efn|The [[Census of India prior to independence|census operations of the British Raj]] were, however, unreliable.}} ==Adoption of surname ''Saini''== [[Image:1937 Jodhpur State Order- Renaming of Mali Caste as Saini.JPG|right|thumb|350px|1937 Jodhpur State Order in respect of renaming of Mali caste to "Saini" or "Sainik Kshatriya in order to uplift them.". Source: Jodhpur State Archives.<ref name="Neo Saini2"/><ref name="Neo Saini1">{{cite book |title=People of India: Rajasthan |editor1-first=Kumar Suresh |editor1-last=Singh |editor1-link=Kumar Suresh Singh |editor2-first=B. K. |editor2-last=Lavania |editor3-first=Dipak Kumar |editor3-last=Samanta |editor4-first=S. K. |editor4-last=Mandal |editor5-first=N. N. |editor5-last=Vyas |year=1998 |isbn=9788171547692 |page=845 |location=Mumbai |publisher=Popular Prakashan, for the Anthropological Survey of India |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vm_KCE4XXPMC |series=State series}}</ref>]] The Mali community of Rajasthan and other north Indian states adopted the surname ''Saini'' during the 1930s when India was under British colonial rule.<ref name="Neo Saini2">''"...the Malis (ie gardners who call themselves Saini now).."'' A Muslim Sub-Caste of North India: Problems of Cultural Integration Partap C. Aggarwal Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Sep. 10, 1966), pp. 159-161, Economic and Political Weekly</ref><ref name = Neo-Saini3>''"At the time of 1941 Census most of them got registered themselves as Saini (Sainik Kshatriya) Malis."'' pp 7, Census of India, 1961, Volume 14, Issue 5 , Office of the Registrar General, India.</ref> ==References== '''Notes''' {{notelist}} '''Citations''' {{Reflist}} {{commonscat|Mali caste}} [[Category:Indian castes]] [[Category:Social groups of Rajasthan]] [[Category:Social groups of Haryana]]'