An ethnographic investigation on land and life of Santal community in Barind Tract, Bangladesh

Mashiur Rahman Akan, Md Abdullah Al Mamun, Tahmina Naznin, Muha Abdullah Al Pavel, Lubna Yasmin, Syed Ajijur Rahman

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Abstract

This paper is an investigation of life style of Santal community, one of the largest tribal communities in Bangladesh. Participatory rural appraisal (PRA), participant observation, focus group discussions (FGD), and informal and semi-structured interviews were used to collect information. Santals are the descendants of Austric-speaking Proto-Australoid race, and worship the supernatural powers. Village as a territorial unit, a collection of some homesteads form an administrative unit where they also tightly bond to a kinship. Even they are very sincere in abiding the rules and regulations of their own society, social problems i.e., poverty, inequality, resource scarcity, illiteracy, maladjustment are more severe. Respecting the national constitution, Bangladesh should generate a multi-ethnic leadership to bring glory and protect Santal from all sorts of hazards and discriminations.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftAmerican Journal of Social Science Research
Vol/bind1
Udgave nummer2
Sider (fra-til)90-95
Antal sider6
ISSN2381-7712
StatusUdgivet - 2015

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