Maldhari communities

thumb|Rabari, a caste of Camel Herders- Tashrih al-aqvam (1825) thumb|Rabari women wearing brightly colored ghagras (skirts), odhnis (veils), and bangles.

Charan (IAST: Cāraṇ; Sanskrit: चारण; Gujarati: ચારણ; Sindhi: چارڻ; IPA: cɑːrəɳə) is a caste natively residing in the Rajasthan and Gujarat states of India, as well as the Sindh and Balochistan provinces of Pakistan. Historically, Charans have been engaged in diverse occupations like bards, poets, historians, pastoralists, agriculturalists and also administrators, jagirdars and warriors and some even as traders.

Soomro (Sindhi: , Devanagari: सूमरो), Soomra, Sumrah or Sumra is a tribe having a local origin in Sindh, Pakistan. They are found in Sindh, parts of Punjab especially bordering Sindh, Balochistan province, and the Kutch district of the Indian state of Gujarat and also Rajasthan. The Soomras ruled throughout the Sindh and Multan regions.

thumb|A member of the Bharwad community from Dwarka, [[Gujarat, wearing the traditional pagri (turban).]] The Bharwad are a Hindu caste found in the state of Gujarat in India, primarily engaged in herding livestock.