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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.
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
The arrival of Bihari refugees in camps in Sindh and Bengal in 1946 paralleled the later movement of refugees in 1947. [20] Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (then a student leader) toured affected villages in Bihar with his relief team and was moved to ask Bihari refugees to move to East Bengal in 1947. [17]
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An MLA from Haryana made a remark "Bihar girls for Haryana men". The Bihar Women's Commission took suo motu cognizance of reports about the leader's remark, and issued notice to him. [48] In Haryana, there was one instance of the family of a woman from Bihar who was paid just ₹. 1000 for marrying off their Bihari daughter.
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 ...
A large number of Urdu-speaking Muslims from Bihar went to East Pakistan after the independence of India and Pakistan. [66] After the formation of Bangladesh in 1971, the Biharis maintained their loyalty to Pakistan and wanted to leave Bangladesh for Pakistan. [67] The majority of these people still await repatriation, however.
Stranded Pakistanis in Bangladesh (Urdu: محصور پاکستانی, mahsūr pākistānī, Bengali: উদ্বাস্তু পাকিস্তানি, romanized: udbāstu pākistāni) are Urdu-speaking Muslim migrants with homelands in present-day India (then part of British India) who settled in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) following the partition of India in 1947.