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A large number of people from the Bhojpuri speaking regions of Bihar Province and Uttar Pradesh Province of British India travelled to various parts of the world in the 19th century to serve as indentured labours on sugarcane, cocoa, rice, and rubber plantations in the Caribbean, Fiji, Mauritius, Myanmar, Seychelles and Natal, South Africa.
In Bihar today, the Bihari identity is seen as secondary to caste/clan, linguistic and religious identity but nonetheless is a subset of the larger Indian identity. [3] Biharis can be found throughout India, and in the neighbouring countries of Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
In August 2008, a film called Singh Is Kinng starring Akshay Kumar which was a superhit in India, flopped in Bihar. Bihar has been where Akshay Kumar's films, from Jaanwar to Hey Babyy, have acquired a blockbuster status. In this case, the heavy usage of Punjabi language, culture was said to be the main cause of the movie being rejected by ...
Bhojpuri is spoken by around 50 million people. [6] It is native to Bhojpuri region of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.Bhojpuri is sociolinguistically considered one of the "Hindi dialects" although it linguistically belongs to the geographic Bihari branch of Eastern Indo-Aryan languages.
Outside India, they are found in Terai, Nepal, where they have been officially recorded as Kushwaha and Koiri. [11] They also have significant presence among the Bihari diaspora in Mauritius. The migration of Biharis to neighbouring countries became more pronounced in post-independence India.
Outside India, the Koeris are distributed among the Bihari diaspora in Mauritius where they were taken as indentured labourers. [15] They also have a significant population residing in Nepal . In 1977, the government of Bihar introduced an affirmative action of quota in government jobs and universities which has benefitted the backward castes ...
Under colonisation of Thailand from 1876 until today. Persian Diaspora – (See Iranian diaspora) a.k.a. Iranians are a major community in Los Angeles, and California in the US, as the major number of Persians in Los Angeles are located in the community of Westwood, Los Angeles a.k.a. Little Persia, and even the mayor of the nearby city of ...
DD Bihar, Sahara Bihar, and Zee Bihar-Jharkhand are the channels dedicated specifically to Bihar. In 2008, two dedicated Bhojpuri channels, called Mahuaa TV, [49] [50] and Purva TV [51] were launched. Several government radio channels exist in Bihar. All India Radio has stations in Bhagalpur, Daltonganj, Darbhanga, Patna, Purnea, and Sasaram.