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Historically, the name Garo was used for a large number of different peoples living on the southern bank of Brahmaputra River, but now refers primarily to those who call themselves A∙chik Mande (literally "hill people," from A∙chik "bite soil" and mande "people") or simply A∙chik or Mande and the name "Garo" is now being used by outsiders as an exonym.
Radhika Coomaraswamy (1953–), Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict; Roy Padayachie (1950–2012), Minister of Public Service and Administration of the Republic of South Africa; also served in the economics desk of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal and as deputy head of local government portfolio; consultant to UNICEF, UNESCO and the ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 February 2025. Dravidian ethnolinguistic group Ethnic group Tamils Tamilar Total population c. 77 million Regions with significant populations India 69,026,881 (2011) Sri Lanka 3,108,770 (2012) Malaysia 1,800,000 (2016) United States 238,699+ (2017) Canada 237,890 (2021) [note 2] Singapore 174,708 ...
Ethnic minorities of Bangladesh have their own cultural traditions and, frequently, languages. [5] Vast number of ethnic tribes of Bangladesh are traditionally Buddhists and Hindus by faith while others are largely Christians and small animists.
Indo-Aryans form the predominant ethnolinguistic group in India (North India, East India, West India, and Central India), Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives. [11] Dravidians form the predominant ethnolinguistic group in southern India , the northern and eastern regions of Sri Lanka and a small pocket of Pakistan. [ 12 ]
Those Scheduled Tribe constitute 8.6% of India's population, while in Bangladesh they're designated as "Ethnic minority" and constitute around 1.1% of Bangladesh's population. [ 9 ] One concentration lies in a belt along the northwest Himalayas: consisting of Jammu and Kashmir , where are found many semi-nomadic groups, to Ladakh and northern ...
The Tripuri people (Kókborok: Tripuri dópha rok, (also known as Tripura, Tipra, Twipra, Tipperah) are a Tibeto-Burman-speaking ethnic group of Bangladesh and Northeast Indian state of Tripura. [4] [5] [6] They are the descendants of the inhabitants of the Twipra/Tripura Kingdom in North-East India and Bangladesh.
Bangladesh's tribal population was enumerated at 897,828 in the 1981 census. [32] These tribes are concentrated in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and around Mymensingh, Sylhet, and Rajshahi. They are of Sino-Tibetan descent and differ markedly in their social customs, religion, language and level of development.