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Dr, Department of Social Work, Examiner of Jashore Board, Munshigonj College, Shyamnagor, Satkhira, Bangladesh

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• Review Article   
  The Munda's an Ethnic Community in the South-West Coastal Region of Bangladesh: Buno/Kuli/Sarna/Horoko, Indigenous People during the British Period Coming from Ranchi
  Author(s): Shaiful Huda*
  
  The Munda’s (Adibasi) are an aboriginal community of the Kingdom of Royal Bengal Tiger of the Sundarbans Mangrove ecological zone (the south-west costal region). The Munda’s are called ‘Sarna/Buno/the forest Man/Kuli/Horoko/the deprived Man/the neglected Tribe. They live surrounding the Sundarban’s Mangrove forest and depend on the ecology for their subsistence and livelihoods. During the British period, the Indigenous people travelled to Bangladesh about 220 years ago coming from Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand (Bihar) and have been here ever since. The group is one of the Indian largest scheduled tribes. The Munda’s practice indigenous religion, distinctive culture and play. They are excellent in singing, dancing, drinking, working, catching fish/crab and shrimp collecting wood honey etc. They also believe in ghosts (Bhut) and spirits.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2151-6200.2021.12.484

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