Vegetarian Outline of Bharat / India

In the past I have wondered several times what the Vegetarian Map of Bharat is.

Recently news sites have made the most of a "Government of India survey" which stating that India is 30% Vegetarian and makes figures of the Vegetarian status of the states.

Any reader of that "survey" would know that the figures of that survey are not reality.  (the most ridiculous being Andhra-Telanga and Gujarat.)

What is the value of a Survey if it doesnt depict reality ?(What is the value of "sample surveys" (whether doctored or not) if they do not depict reality).

I cannot but conclude that the 2014 survey is entirely doctored -  having as its purpose to depict the population as non Vegetarian. It was carried out during the Congress regime and released on Janurary 1 2014 - before the General Election of 2014. The intention of the results would have all to do with a noticed trend of Vegetarian voting for BJP and Non-Vegetarian voting for "Secular" parties.

What is the real status then ? No full survey of the country has been done.

But one source of authentic statistics is available - search engines of Matrimonial sites. A few well known sites provide this option in the profile for which in the survey of this study and map only statistics from www.bharatmatrimony.com have been used.

This study was made possible by, and the reader should be grateful to :

www.bharatmatrimony.com

The jeevansathi.com matrimonial website also has a vegetarian and non-vegetarian option, and a large number of profiles - but can choose both vegetarian and non vegetarian at the same time and thus are Not usable.

Methodology

bharatmatrimony.com statistics are from age group between 18-40
results do not include "not specified" profiles

The statistics are based upon Language and or State state of residence results as available from the matrimonial.

For example by searching for all profiles according to "state" and "language" one will come up with relevant profiles - from these results one can view the Vegetarian or Non Vegetarian status of these profiles.

"A state having 5000 male profiles out of which 3000 are vegatarian = 60% out of a total of 5000 "results""

In the notes : "Results" means total number of persons surveyed (not total number vegetarian surveyed)

- about 1/3 of profiles on bharatmatrimony.com have "not indicated" which could mean anything. - these results have been discarded altogether ie are not counted as "results".

Limitation of this method are :

- online matrimonials generally represent a "educated class" and not society in its entirety

- some areas/languages have very few matrimonial profiles
- concerning "state results" there is a observable and understandable trend of migrants using online matrimonials 

Most states-languages have about 10,000 to 2 lakh profiles which is suffiecent number to make a reliable survey - these figures are included with the area outline - click to view.

Color ranges on the Map

% Vegetarian

+ 0-1 %

+ 5-15 %

+ 15-30 %

+ 60%

+ 80%

+ 90%

The percentage next to state title is authors opinion / not exactly what the stats compute to



Gujarat : ~ 90%

language results : male 90% (2 lakh results) female 90% (9500 results)

state results : 75 % female , (10,000 results),  - male 85% (30,000 results)

Note : the almost exclusively vegetarian population of Gujarat is well known.


Panjab : + 65% / + 2/3 Vegetarian

language : male 60% (25,000 results) female 70% (10000 results)

state results ::: female 80% (4,000 results) male : 2/3 (13,000 results)

Notes : Vegetarianism is not a precept of the Sikh denomination of Hinduism.

Andhra-Telanga ~ 35 % Vegetarian

language results : female 35% (55,000 results) male 30 % (1.8 lakh results)

states results : female 35% (45,000 results) male 35% (1.25 lakh results)

Notes : Vaishnava of Andhra-Telanga are Vegetarian.

Maharashtra : 33-40 % Vegetarian

language results : female 40% (38000 results) male 33% (80,000 results)

state results : female 40% (57,000 results) male 36% (1.1 lakh results)

Notes : Varkari Vaishnava of Maharashtra are Vegetarian.

Konkan : + 30 % Vegetarian

districts results (excluding Raigarh as contains Mumbai suburb) : female 30% (300 results) male 33% (1000 results)

West Bengal : ~ 10% Vegetarian

state results : male 8% (51,000 results), female 4% (28,000 results)  

language results : male 5% (66,500 results)

Notes : Gauriya Vaishnava make up somewhere between 10-20% of West Bangal, yet although vegetarian is the standard in Gauriya Vaishnavism - many lay Gauriya Vaishnava are not vegetarian (only fish).


Assam ~ 5% Vegetarian

state results : female 7% (2500 results) male 10% (4500 results) language results - male 5% (2000 results) '''state results likely contain many migrant = language results of 5% )

Notes : Vaishnava of Assam are generally are not Vegetarian (likely only fish)

Tamil Nadu : + 15% Vegetarian

language results : male 15% (2 lakh results) female 15 % (6,500 results)

state results : female 15% (55,000)results) male 15% (2 lakh results)

Notes : Tamil - Sri Vaishnava are vegetarian


Eelam (North Lanka) + 15 % Vegetarian

country results (all noted as tamil speaking) : male 15% (800 results) female 10% (120 results)

Kerala : ~ 10% Vegetarian

state results : female 7.2 % (40,000 results), male 6.75% (1.04 lakh results)

language results : female 6.5% (56,700 results), male 5.6% (1.55 lakh results)

Notes: Personal observation : Atleast 10% of Cherala is vegetarian including practitioner of Ayurveda from any religion (in this study state results : 5.5%(male) and 3% (female) out of the total number of vegetarian were Christian and 3.5% (male) and 2.4% (female) out of the total number of vegetarian of Kerala were Muslim ---- while the remaining 91% male vegetarian and 94.5 female vegetarian were Hindu).
Interestingly results for brahmin-Nambuthiri were 100% vegetarian with 620 results.
 Among the 60% "Hindu" p opulation of Kerala - half are nominal Hindu and eat any non vegetarian, while the other half are practicing Hindu and respect cow. Among the practicing Hindu about 1/3 (-10% of Kerala) are vegetarian while 2/3 (+20% of Kerala) are not Vegetarian but respect cow.
For further details concerning the above refer to : http://bharatiya-prakrtisanskrtibhakti.blogspot.com/p/cow-eating-in-india-and-kerala-in.html


Karnataka : 33 - 55 % Vegetarian

state results : female 33% (36,000 results) male 33% (1 lakh results)

language results : female 55% (15,000 results) male 55% (50,000 results)

Goa : + 15 % Vegetarian

state results : female 20%, male, 15%

Odisha + 20 % Vegetarian

state results : female 25% (12,000 results) male 23% (40,000 results)

language results : female 20% (15,000 results) male 20% (45,000 results)

Rajasthan : ~ 80% Vegetarian

language results (rajasthani and marwari) female 95% (1700 results) male 95% (5,000 results)

state results : male 70 % (12,000 results) female 80% (4.,000 results)

Himachal Pradesh : + 50 % Vegetarian

state results : female 80% (650 results) male 60 % (1400 results)

language results : male 55% (600 results), female 35% (300 results)


Uttarkhand ~ 60 % Vegetarian

state results : female 65% (1500 results) male 50 % (3000 results)

language results :

Kumaoni : female 60% (450 results) male : 40% (500 results)

Garhwali : female 60% (600 results), male 35 % (1000 results)

Jammu (Division) ~ 50 % Vegetarian

districts resutls : female 60% (250 results) male 50 % (600 results)

Haryana + 80% Vegetarian

language results : male 83% (670 results) female 87% (140 results)

state results : female 75% (4,000 results) male 70 % (10,000 results) 

(many migrant profiles were observed in these state results)

Mithila  + 30% Vegetarian

language results : 20% male (1500 results), female 30% (600 results) 

Bhojpuri  ~ 60% Vegetarian

language results : Male 55% (1600 results), female 55% (750 results)

Avadh + 70% Vegetarian (few results)

language results : female 85% (55 results) male 80% (110 results)

Braj  + 80 % Vegetarian (few results)

language results : male 80% (50 results)

Notes : Braj is largely vegetarian, for example in Mathura district one will scarcely find


Madhya Pradesh  ~70 % Vegetarian (few results)

state results : female 75 % (8000 results) male 70% (14,000 results)

Jharkhand + 25 % Vegetarian

state results : female 25% (4,000 results) male 30% (7,500 results)

Chhattishgarh ~ 50% Vegetarian

language results : female 65% (170 results)  male 52% (350 results) 

state results : female 50 % (2800 results) male 40% (6000 results) (male : Bangla profiles observed)

Magadh-Anga + 30 % Vegetarian

language results : female 25% (4,000 results) male 30% (7,500 results)

Tripura  ~ 5%

state results : Male 10% (800 results) (Bangla population = 5%)

Manipur : ~ 15 % ?

language results : 15 % (120 results) 

state results 33 % (100 results)

notes - +1/2 Manipuri are Gauriya Vaishnava, though not all are vegetarian (fish atleast?)


Nepal and Sikkim 10-20% Vegetarian? 

((most matrimonial stats are from india / not nepal))))

language results : female 30% (320 results) male 20% (500 results)

notes :  many Bahun (and chettri) brahmana whom comprise 30 % of central nepal - are vegetarian (ie central Nepal is more vegetarian) and of Nepal population about 10% are brahmin and "many of whom vegetarian"

Uttar Pradesh

state results : female 75% (16,000 results) male 65% (35,000) results)





Religionwise results

Based upon religion out of total number of profiles surveyed :
Hindu (out of total 15 lakh male results 6 lakh or were Tamil or Telugu)
34.7% female were vegetarian (out of 336,000 results)
29.5% male were vegetarian (out of 888,000 results)
Muslim
6% female were Vegetarian (out of 13,000 profiles/results)
8.5% male were Vegetarian (out of 44,500 results)