Distillers of alcohol in India

History and Traditions
In India, there are located mainly in Village - Dujana District-Jhajjar (Haryana State) near Capital of India-New Delhi. In New Delhi, Haryana (Rohtak, Gurgaon, Jhajjar, Bhiwani, Karnal, Ambala) Chandigarh, Jaipur (Rajasthan), Mumbai (Maharashtra), Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir. Settibalija's are a community living throughout the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh,Maharashtra and Karnataka,In Karnataka they are identified with Names Surya vamshi Kshtriya, khatik, surya vamshi kshtriya khatik. They are mainly found in East Godavari, West Godavari, Khammam, Vishakapatnam and in Krishna districts of Andra Pradesh.They are identified by different names in Different places. Legend says that a Dommeti Venkata Reddi, was like a chieftain, and changed their community name to Setti Balija from Goud during 18th century. Dommeti Venkat Reddi who lived in The Bodasakurru village near Amalapuram of East Godavari Dt. A significant population of converted Muslim distillers are found in bihar, jharkhand, west Bengal, orissa and uttarpradesh who used to distill alcohol,but as alcohol is illegal (haraam) in islam they gradually changed their occupation, some distillers still are occupied in their community business that of manufacturing and selling alcohol. They were converted in large numbers in the region around biharsharif in bihar through the Sufi Saint & Muslim priest Hazrat Makhdoom Bihari R.A whose convent is still there. A large number of Hindu distillers are still found in this region.Their main business was to trade wine and alcohol.
They number an estimated 35,000,000 worldwide and mostly live in: Western and Northern India,South India, Nepal, Central and Western Pakistan, Eastern Afghanistan, Germany.

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