The Culture of the Urang Community of Bangladesh
Main Article Content
Abstract
This comprehensive study focuses on the life and culture of the Urang community of Bangladesh, who are living mainly in greater Sylhet for ages. Data have been collected through field visits and semi-structured interviews with 64 members of the community. The result shows that, even though the Urangs have traditionally been working and living in different tea gardens in Sylhet, a lot of them are now engaged in various professions including jobs even in some government offices. Culturally the community has its distinctive features while it has affinity with Hinduism. Rice is their staple food and they dress up in accordance with mainstream Bangladeshi culture. Their food habit is different from other Bengali people living in this area. They wear different dresses in different occasion. Because of living in the remote area, they are habituated to adjust with raining and other natural disaster. They generally speak in Sadri and Kurukh language.
Article Details
Section
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication. Anyone may copy, distribute, remix, adapt and build upon the work, including for commercial purposes, provided appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and the source, a link to the license is provided, and any changes made are indicated. License details: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
How to Cite
References
Ahmed, S., & Chowdhury S.R. (2014). The rights of tea workers of Bangladesh in the light of existing labor laws and standards: a study on selected tea estates of Sylhet district. International Journal of Research in Commerce, IT & Management, 4(7), Haryana, India.
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.(2003). Population census 2001 national report (provisional), Dhaka: Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics
Barkat A., (2010). Assessment of the situation of children and women in the tea gardens of Bangladesh, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Department of UNICEF-BCO, Human Development Research Center, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Dhaka.
Boniface Tirkey. (1989). Oraon Symbols: Theologizing in Oraon Context. Delhi: Vidyajyoti, 1983; The Smiling Uraon: The People on the move: Navjyoti Niketan.
BPMI. (1997). Bangladesh project management institute, baseline survey of the tea plantation workers and their families in Bangladesh, Draft report submitted to ILO. Chowdhury M.A.I., Hasan G.M.J., & Karim M.A. (2011) A study on existing WATSAN condition of two tea gardens in Maulvibazar. Journal of Environmental Science & Natural Resources, 4(2): 13-18.
Minz, D. (2017). Religious History of the Mundas and Oraons. Delhi: Kalpaz Publications.
Don Bosco Centre for Indigenous Cultures.(1999). John Lakra, Tribal Spirituality: A Way of Life, Ranchi: Catholic Press (2006); Tribal Myths According to the Uraon Tradition.
Gumla: St. Ignatius School.(2007). PremXalxo, Current Ecological Crisis and its Moral Dimensions: A Tribal Perspective (2008).
Hahn, F. (1931). Hahn’s Oraon Folk-lore in the Original: A Critical Text with Translations and Notes. (Ferdinand Hahn, A. Grignard Eds.) Patna: Government Printing Press.
Rev. P. Dehon, S.J. (1906) “Religion and Customs of the Uraon”, Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, (1906), 1(9), 121-181.
Reverend Ferdinand Hahn. (1903). Some Notes on the Religion and Superstitions of the Oraons. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,72(1), 12-19.
V.P. Koonathan, The Religion of the Oraons: A Comparative study of the Concept of God in the Sarna Religion of the Oraons and the Christian Concept of God, Shillong