The Bhovi of India, numbering approximately 1,420,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Scheduled Caste community of well-diggers, stone-cutters, and earth-workers, whose name derives from the Kannada bhavi, meaning well. They trace their origin to Odra Desa, present-day Odisha, from where they migrated to southern India. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Telugu is their primary language.