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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.
Biharis are accused of lowering India's GDP per capita by doing obsolete, extreme low-skill and low-paying jobs such as coolie, panshops, rickshaw driver, sewage worker etc. in all other parts of India. Bihar's average GDP per capita is mere Rs. 86,000 only, some estimates says that India's GDP per capita would have been 4,500$ if UP and Bihar ...
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.
Outside India, Koeris are distributed among the Bihari diaspora in Mauritius. Though the island is divided along ethnic and religious lines, 'Hindu' Mauritians follow a number of original customs and traditions, quite different from those seen on the Indian subcontinent.
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.
Bihari brothers, American music industry entrepreneurs; János Bihari (1764–1824/1827?), Hungarian Romani violinist; Lal Bihari (born 1955), founder of the Association of the Dead; Mukut Bihari, Indian politician; Shamsul Huda Bihari (died 1987), Indian songwriter and poet; Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018), Prime Minister of India
Fiction about Indian diaspora (2 C, 53 P) I. Indian diaspora history (1 C, 1 P) ... Bihari diaspora; C. Caribbean Hindustani; I. India International Friendship Society;
Bihari Muslims are adherents of Islam who identify linguistically, culturally, and genealogically as Biharis.They are geographically native to the region comprising the Bihar state of India, although there are significantly large communities of Bihari Muslims living elsewhere in the subcontinent due to the Partition of British India in 1947, which prompted the community to migrate en masse ...