'''Tyagi''' is a sub-caste <ref>[http://www.peoplegroupsindia.com/profiles/taga/ ], </ref> <ref>[http://yaneshtyagi.com/articles/history_of_tyagi_samaj.aspx]</ref>which historically belonged to the [[Brahmin]] [[Caste system in India|caste]]. As of a 1990 report by the Backward Classes Commission, Government of Haryana, they were mostly engaged in farming.<ref name="Commission1990">{{cite book|author=Haryana (India). Backward Classes Commission|title=Report of the Backward Classes Commission, 1990, Government of Haryana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aH3aAAAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Controller of Printing and Stationery|page=105}}</ref>

The name Tyagi is prevalent in [[Hindu]] and used by those Hindu Tyagis as well, who converted to [[Muslim]] faith.<ref name="ref62fibiy">{{Citation | title=Tribe, caste, and peasantry | author=Kripa Shankar Mathur, Binod C. Agrawal | publisher=Ethnographic &amp; Folk Culture Society, U. P., 1974 | isbn= | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YnqwAAAAIAAJ |page=189 | quote=''... The present Hindu and Muslim Tyagis are the descendants of a common ancestor ...''}}</ref> Community members who converted to [[Islam]] are known as [[Muslim Tyagi]]s,<ref name="ref06culiv">{{Citation | title=Rural-urban articulations | author=Brij Raj Chauhan, Unesco | publisher=A.C. Bros., 1990 | isbn=978-81-85489-01-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zenZAAAAMAAJ | quote=''... In Saharanpur district SC Dube described the Tyagi village where half of the population is of Muslim Tyagi and the other half of the Hindu Tyagi ...''}}</ref> Mulla Brahmin, Musalman Taga, Mahesra and Moolay Taga.<ref>''History of origin of some clans in India, with special reference to Jats'' (1992), Mangal Sen Jindal, Sarup & Sons, p. 159</ref>