Rise of Kunbi/Kurmi/Patedar/Patel in Gujrath :Degradation of Rabari, Rajput and Koli(Solanki) warriors started (गुजरात में कुणबी/कुर्मी/पाटीदार/पटेल समाज का उदय: रबारी, राजपूत और कोली/सोलंकी योध्दा की पतन की शुरुआत)

Rise of Kunbi/Kurmi/Patedar/Patel in Gujrath :Degradation of Rabari, Rajput and Koli(Solanki) warriors started
(गुजरात में कुणबी/कुर्मी/पाटीदार/पटेल समाज का उदय: रबारी, राजपूत और कोली/सोलंकी योध्दा की पतन की शुरुआत)

Rise to dominance
The rise to socio-economic prominence of the Kunbi i community in Gujarat and its change of identity to that of Patidar can be attributed to the land reforms(कुळकायदा/Land Act) of the British Raj period. The Raj administrators sought to assure revenue from the highly fertile lands of central Gujarat and to do this they instituted reforms that fundamentally changed the relationship that existed between the two communities of the region, being the peasant Kanbi and the warrior Kolis. Those two communities had previously been of more or less equal socio-economic standing but the emphasis of the land reforms better suited the agricultural peasantry than the warriors.However, most Kolis had lost their once-equal standing with the Patidar.

During the later period of the Raj, the Gujarati Kolis became involved in the process of what has subsequently been termed sanskritisation.

The Rajputs were politically, economically and socially marginalised(अधिकारहीन कर दना) because their own numbers — around 4 - 5 per cent of the population — were inferior to the dominant Patidars, with whom the Kolis were also disenchanted.

The Kolis were among those whom the Rajputs targeted because, although classified as a criminal tribe by the British administration, they were among the many communities of that period who had made genealogical claims of descent from the kshatriya. The Rajput leaders preferred to view the Kolis as being kshatriya by dint of military ethos rather than origin but, in whatever terminology, it was a marriage of political expedience