What is the main ethnic group of the Indian state where the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta is located?
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Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) is a social science and humanities research and teaching institute in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Established in 1973 in works within the purview of Indian Council of Social Science Research and funded by the same council and Government of West Bengal. It is one of the top institute in social sciences in India. The centre was founded when Professor S. Nurul Hasan was the education minister of India. Barun De was appointed as its first Director.
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West Bengal West Bengal ( ) is an Indian state located in Eastern India on the Bay of Bengal. It is India's fourth most populous state, with over 91million inhabitants (as of 2011). It has an area of 88752 km2 . A part of the ethno-linguistic Bengal region, it is bordered by Bangladesh in the east, and Nepal and Bhutan in the north; it shares borders with five Indian states: Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Sikkim, and Assam. The state capital is Kolkata (Calcutta), the seventh-largest city in India. As for geography, West Bengal includes the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region, the Ganges delta, the Rarh region, and the coastal Sundarbans. The main ethnic group are the Bengalis, with Bengali Hindus forming the demographic majority.
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Folk dances of Assam Folk dances of Assam, include the Bihu dance" and the "Bagurumba" (both danced during festivals held in the spring), the "Bhortal" dance, the "Ojapali" dance etc. Assam is home to many groups: Mongoloid, Indo-Burmese, Indo-Iranian, Aryan, Rabha, Bodo, Kachari, Karbi, Mising, Sonowal Kacharis and Mishimi. These cultures come together to create an Assamese culture. Residents of the state of Assam are known as "Axomiya" (Assamese). Most tribes have their own language, although Assamese is the primary language of the state.
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Hindustani people Hindustani or Hindavi people are a panethnicity primarily living in the Hindi belt region of India, which is located in the Gangetic Plain of North India, between the Himalayas and the Vindhyas, identified as such on one or more of genealogical, linguistic, or cultural grounds.
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Odisha Odisha ( ; formerly Orissa, ) is one of the 29 states of India, located in eastern India. It is surrounded by the states of West Bengal to the north-east, Jharkhand to the north, Chhattisgarh to the west and north-west, and Andhra Pradesh to the south. Odisha has 485 km of coastline along the Bay of Bengal on its east, from Balasore to Ganjam. It is the 9th largest state by area, and the 11th largest by population. It is also the 3rd most populous state of India in terms of tribal population.
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Bengali Brahmins The Bengali Brahmins are those Hindu Brahmins who traditionally reside in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, currently comprising the Indian state of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam and Bangladesh. When the British left India in 1947, carving out separate nations, a number of families moved from the Muslim-majority East Bengal (now Bangladesh) to be within the borders of the newly defined Republic of India, and continued to migrate for several decades thereafter.
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Dhanuk The Dhanuk are an ethnic group found in Bangladesh, India and Nepal. In India, the Dhanuk are found in the states of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. In Nepal, they are settled in the Terai districts of Saptari, Siraha and Dhanusa. They are either Kshetris or a minority indigenous people. The Dhanuks of eastern Terai are also known as Mandal. The Dhanuk is also known as Jaswal Kurmi. The Dhanuk in both countries are Hindu, and speak various dialects of Hindi, such as Bhojpuri and Awadhi.
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Panchkalshi The Pachkalshi (or Panchkalshi) are an ethnic community of Maharashtra and Goa. They are also known by name of Somvanshi Kshatriya Pathare (SKP).
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Newar people The Newar or Newah ( ; Newari: नेवा: ) are the historical inhabitants of the Kathmandu Valley and its surrounding areas in Nepal, and the creators of its historic heritage and civilization. Newars are an artistic people and have had an immense influence upon the art, architecture and culture of Nepal, Tibet, East Asia and South-East Asia. Newars form a linguistic and cultural community of primarily Indo-Aryan and Tibeto-Burman ethnicities following Hinduism and Buddhism with Nepal Bhasa as their common language. Newars have developed a division of labour and a sophisticated urban civilization not seen elsewhere in the Himalayan foothills. Newars have continued their age-old traditions and practices, and pride themselves as the true custodians of the religion, culture and civilization of Nepal.
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Dalit studies Dalit studies is a new field of research in India which looks at the problem of marginalised groups, namely Dalits, tribals, religious minorities, women from excluded groups, denotified tribes, physically challenged and similar groups in economic, social and political spheres. Dalit studies scholars also undertake research on the nature and forms of discrimination and social exclusion faced by marginalised groups.
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Telugu language Telugu ( ; "telugu" ] ) is a Dravidian language native to India. It stands alongside Hindi, English, and Bengali as one of the few languages with official status in more than one Indian state; Telugu is the primary language in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and in the town of Yanam, Puducherry, and is also spoken by significant minorities in Karnataka (8.81%), Tamil Nadu (8.63%), Maharashtra (1.4%), Chhattisgarh (1%), Odisha (1.9%), the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (12.9%), and by the Sri Lankan Gypsy people. It is one of six languages designated a classical language of India by the Government of India.
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Vivek Kumar Vivek Kumar is an Indian sociologist and a public intellectual. At present he is professor of sociology at the Centre for the Study of Social System, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His areas of interest include methodology of social sciences, sociology of marginalized sections, dependent and independent Dalit political leadership, sociology of Indian diaspora, sociology of South Asia, social movements, globalization and social change. Professor Kumar has coined the terms "Dalit Diaspora", Arohi mobilization, a human distress index for Dalits, and an exclusion index from a sociological point of view. He has analyzed the process and mechanism involved in strengthening the democracy by the ‘Independent Dalit Movements’ in the largest populated state of India i.e. Uttar Pradesh. Kumar has also examined how the Dalit movement has diversified its demands for inclusion in the modern institutions of governance and other spheres of day-to-day life after India became a democracy. Now, Kumar is studying internal differences within the Indian diaspora and its relationship with Indian democracy. He also writes in newspapers and participates in debates on television channels regularly.
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Ho people The Ho people are a tribe of people belonging to the Indian state of Jharkhand. They are the warrior tribe of jharkhand. They are the fourth most numerous scheduled tribe in Jharkhand after Santals, Oraons, and Mundas, and constitute around 10.5 percent of the total population of the Scheduled Tribes, numbering around 700,000 (total in the state) in the 2001 census. In Odisha, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Assam or West Bengal, HO tribe are present, as the territory they inhabit in Jharkhand borders these states. According to an American publication, total number of people speaking the Ho language was 1,077,000 in 1997. There were more than 200,000 people speaking the language in Odisha. .The Ho is a sister tribe of the Munda tribe. It is believed that Ho speakers were originally Mundas. In course of time, some fourteen to seventeen century A.D., they parted aside for unknown reason and migrated from Bandhgaon-Khunti region and settled down in Singhbhum or Kolhan region.
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Tamang people The Tamang ཏ་མང (Devnagari: तामाङ; "tāmāng"), are the indigenous inhabitants of the Himalayan regions of Nepal and India, their ancestral land is called Tamsaling. They are the aborigines of Yambu, or Kathmandu Valley, who had self-rule and autonomous roughly 2 centuries before present, systematically displaced during the expansion period of Gorkha Kingdom and this continues to the present day, the Central Development Region, Nepal remains where 70% of the population reside. The traditionally Buddhist Tamang are the largest Tibeto-Burman ethnic group within Nepal, constituting 5.6% of the national population of over 1.3 million in 2001, increasing to 1,539,830 as of 2011 census, yet contested. Tamang are also a significant minority in Sikkim and Darjeeling District of West Bengal of India as permanent settlers; their languages are fifth most spoken in Nepal (note all Tamang languages are not mutually intelligible). They were one of the aborigines who were least affected by Nepalisation. Peculiar to Tamang people are complex marriage restrictions within the community.
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Hazaris Hazari is one of the castes or social groups in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, predominantly present in areas Warangal, Karimnagar, Hyderabad and Nizambad. Hazaris regard Telugu as their mother tongue.
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Na Asamiya "Na-Asamiya" or more popularly Miya refers to the group of migrant Muslims in Assam who began arriving in Assam after the colonization of Assam by the British from eastern Bengal (later East Bengal, East Pakistan and Bangladesh) and started settling in the Brahmaputra Valley. The migration was officially encouraged by the British, the Muslim League government in the 1940s and a section of the Assamese elite prior to the Partition of India and considered illegal after the constitution of Pakistan in 1947. Many of these migrant Muslims settled on the "char"s or riverine islands on the Brahmaputra and other low-lying areas. The Na-Asamiyas constitute the largest of the four major Muslim ethnic groups in Assam, who constitute a third of Assam's electorate.
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Islam in West Bengal Since the partition of India in 1947, the majority of the Bengali Muslims have lived in Bangladesh. Islam is the minority religion in West Bengal as of 2011. However, Islam is also the second largest and the fastest growing religion in the Indian state of West Bengal. According to 2011 Census of India, West Bengal has over 24.6 million Bengali Muslims, who form 27% of the state's population. In West Bengal capital Kolkata Muslim's Population is 926,414 making up 20.6% of the city population as of 2011 census. Bengali Muslims are minority in all districts of Bengal except Uttar Dinajpur (49.92%), Maldah (51.27%) and Murshidabad (66.28%) . It is also said that this rise is due to proximity to Muslim-dominated districts of neighboring state of Bihar and illegal migration from Bangladesh cause demography change in the state.
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Kosal state movement People of the "Sambalpuri region" of India are demanding a politically separate state from Odisha. Political parties, intelligentsia and various social organisations have termed it as a political conspiracy by certain separatist groups, especially consisting of people having business interests in western Odisha but not ethnically belonging to Odisha itself, frequently capturing news headlines of both state and national print and visual media. Public support is very limited at this time.
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Mara people The Mara people are the native inhabitants of Mizoram in India, native to northeastern India, primarily in the Mara Autonomous District Council of the state of Mizoram, where they form the majority of the population. Significant numbers of Maras are also found living south-eastern part of Burma, in Chin State and Rakhine State which border the district. They were earlier known as the "Lakher" by outsiders as Lusei called them by that name, and the new name "Mara" was inserted in List of Scheduled Tribes in Mizoram state in 1978 replacing the old name. The Maras were in early period known to the outside world under different tribal names such as Mara, Lakher, Shendu, Baungshelor Shendoo, Maring, Zyu or Zao/Zho, Tlosai, Khongzai, etc. They constitute a distinct tribal group lying in Saiha district of Mizoram. Some writers and historians included them as one of the Mizo tribes/clans. They called themselves "Maras"
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Bodish languages The Bodish languages, named for the Tibetan ethnonym "Bod", are the Tibetic languages in a broad linguistic sense, regardless of whether the speakers are considered ethnically Tibetan. Different scholars divide Bodish differently, but the alternate term "Tibetan" generally excludes East Bodish. Languages in this subgroup are spoken in Tibet, North India, Nepal, Bhutan, and North Pakistan.
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Chakraborty Chakraborty ("Chôkrôbôrti" চক্রবর্তী) is a surname meaning ′Ruler of the country′ or ′Emperor′ of Bengali and Assamese people in the Indian states of West Bengal, Assam and Tripura and in Bangladesh (previously known as East Bengal of the undivided India). It is spelled in various ways, including Chakravartty, Chakraverty, Chakraborty, Chakraborti, Chokroborti, Chakrabarti, Chakrabarty, Chakraverty, Chakravarthy, Chakravarti, Chakravarthi, Chakravorti, and Chakravorty.
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Rajbhar Samaj The Rajbhar (also spelled Rajbhaar) are a community of the state of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Bihar, Mumbai, Nepal and other states India.