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Technically, the caste is called "Patidar," and Patel is the most common last name among its members.
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Anthropologists say certain Patidar became responsible for collecting the pati taxes, and these lucky landowners became known as Matadar.
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By the 1850s there were already more Patidar than there were patis to dar, so Patels grudgingly began to diversify.
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"Today you've got Muslim Patels, Christian Patels, and others who aren't really Patidar."
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The wealthy Patels at the time owned land but no longer farmed it themselves, and the very poor farmed but didn't own -- although Dhiraj says anyone who didn't own land wasn't a Patidar.
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"There's no such thing as a Matadar, and the Kanbi are laborers who worked on Patidar land."
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Dhiraj says that the Patidar are an ancient caste that once spread its influence evenly across united Hindu India and that a leader named Virt Vasanji brought them together in Gujarat in the late 1700s.
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"For all intents and purposes, Patel and Patidar are the same," says Nilam.
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