<p>The Laad community has scattered all over the country that originally migrated from “Laat Desh” in South Gujarat several centuries ago.<br /><br /></p>.<p> Many Laads are not aware that the dialect spoken by them called Chaurasi, is a mixture of Gujarati, Marathi and Rajasthani. <br /><br />In 2005, J P Narayan Laad made an attempt to analyse its phonetical structure and grammar and published a monograph with the assistance of Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore.<br /><br />Their traditional profession is trade and commerce. About one-third of them reside in Mysore, Srirangapatna, Ganjam, Bangalore and Sira and the rest in cities like Belagur, Bijapur, Gulbarga, Hubli, Dharwad and elsewhere in Karnataka.<br /><br />Small colonies of them are also found in Chitradurga, N R Pura and Savanur.<br /><br />According to a publication of the University of Mysore in 1931, L K Ananthakrishna Iyer writes, “In the Mysore census Report of 1901, it is said that the Laads are a class of general merchants.” <br /><br />“Lad or Lat is the original name of Southern Gujarat. Their mother tongue is known as Chaurasi, which is a possible indication that they came from Chorasi in Surat.”<br /><br />Francis Buchanan who toured in parts of Mysore and surrounding regions also mentions Laads.<br />As for the history of the community, there is no written material, because neither the community, nor the rulers have left any document about them. <br /><br />We must reconstruct their history on the basis of their oral tradition and language, which is a branch of Indo-European family.</p>
<p>The Laad community has scattered all over the country that originally migrated from “Laat Desh” in South Gujarat several centuries ago.<br /><br /></p>.<p> Many Laads are not aware that the dialect spoken by them called Chaurasi, is a mixture of Gujarati, Marathi and Rajasthani. <br /><br />In 2005, J P Narayan Laad made an attempt to analyse its phonetical structure and grammar and published a monograph with the assistance of Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore.<br /><br />Their traditional profession is trade and commerce. About one-third of them reside in Mysore, Srirangapatna, Ganjam, Bangalore and Sira and the rest in cities like Belagur, Bijapur, Gulbarga, Hubli, Dharwad and elsewhere in Karnataka.<br /><br />Small colonies of them are also found in Chitradurga, N R Pura and Savanur.<br /><br />According to a publication of the University of Mysore in 1931, L K Ananthakrishna Iyer writes, “In the Mysore census Report of 1901, it is said that the Laads are a class of general merchants.” <br /><br />“Lad or Lat is the original name of Southern Gujarat. Their mother tongue is known as Chaurasi, which is a possible indication that they came from Chorasi in Surat.”<br /><br />Francis Buchanan who toured in parts of Mysore and surrounding regions also mentions Laads.<br />As for the history of the community, there is no written material, because neither the community, nor the rulers have left any document about them. <br /><br />We must reconstruct their history on the basis of their oral tradition and language, which is a branch of Indo-European family.</p>