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A group of High caste Bihari women in Gopalganj district (1915) A man from Bihar, attending Kumbh Mela. Agriculture workers in Gopalganj, ca. 1915. The traditional dress of Bihari people includes Dhoti and Chapkan [25] [26] or Kurta (replacing the older chapkan which is a robe fastened on the right or on the left) [26] for men and Saree for
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.
States and union territories of India by the spoken first language [1] [note 1]. The Republic of India is home to several hundred languages.Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European (c. 77%), the Dravidian (c. 20.61%), the Austroasiatic (precisely Munda and Khasic) (c. 1.2%), or the Sino-Tibetan (precisely Tibeto-Burman) (c. 0.8%), with ...
Most of Bihar's population belongs to a collection of ethnic groups speaking indic languages. It also attracted Punjabi Hindu refugees during the Partition of British India in 1947. [ 3 ] Bihar has a total literacy rate of 63.82% (73.39% for males and 53.33% for females), recording a growth of 20% in female literacy over the preceding decade.
Bihari languages are a group of the Indo-Aryan languages. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Bihari languages are mainly spoken in the Indian states of Bihar , Jharkhand , Uttar Pradesh , and West Bengal , and also in Nepal .
Hindi is the official language of the state and is spoken natively by 25.54% of the total population. [90] At 8.42%, Urdu is the second official language in 15 districts of the state. [ 91 ] However, the majority of the people speak one of the Bihari languages , most of which were classified as dialects of Hindi during the census.
The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [70] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [71] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included.
The Bhojpuri-speaking country is inhabited by a people curiously different from people who speak Bihari dilects. They form the fighting nation of Hindostan. An alert and active nationality, with few scruples, and considerable abilities, dearly loving a fight for fighting's sake, they have spread all over Aryan India, each men ready to carve his ...