The Teli (Marathi) of India, numbering approximately 1,445,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a large occupational caste/community of South Asia, historically known as oil pressers and oil traders. Their name comes from a Hindi word meaning oil, reflecting their traditional work of extracting vegetable oil using bullock‑driven wooden presses They are an Indigenous people, with Teli as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Teli people cluster of the South Asian Peoples. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Marathi is their primary language.