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District wise Scheduled Tribes demographic map of West Bengal. More than half of the total ST population of the state is concentrated in Medinipur, Jalpaiguri, Purulia, and Bardhaman districts. Of the remaining districts, Bankura, Malda, Uttar Dinajpur, and Dakshin Dinajpur have sizable ST population. [3]
31 West Bengal. 32 See also. 33 References. Toggle the table of contents. List of Scheduled Castes. ... Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version;
Upendra Nath Biswas, former joint director and Minister (East) of the CBI, MLA from Bagdah and former Minister of Backward Classes & Welfare of Government of West Bengal. (2011–16) [ 2 ] Mukunda Behari Mullick , former lawyer, professor of Pali, senate member in Calcutta University , founder of All Bengal Namasudra Association, MLA and ...
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But, by 1947, a majority of Namasudras actively associated them with the Hindus and that the partition was inevitable, their primary aim was to keep their habitat- the districts of Bakarganj, Faridpur, Jessore and Khulna within the Hindu majority province of West Bengal. [21] But they managed to maintain a separate caste identity throughout. [63]
The Hindu community in Bengal was divided into only two varnas: Brahmins and Shudras.Hence, although the Bengali Kayasthas and Baidyas had a high social status along with Brahmins, their ritual status was low, according to Edmund Leach, S. N. Mukherjee, [22] though it seems their ritual status is a subject of dispute as per other historians.
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The Muchis are people of indigenous origin found in the Indian state of West Bengal. They are also called Chamars as in northern India. [citation needed] The Muchis or Chamars numbered 995,756 in the 2001 census and were 5.4 per cent of the scheduled caste population of West Bengal. 47.0 per cent of the Muchis were literate – 58.6 per cent ...