Rajuar

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Rajuar
Rajuar, Rajuwar, Rajuad, Rajuala
ReligionsHindu
CountryIndia
Original stateBihar, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal
Status Schedule Tribe

Rajuar (also known as Rajuala, Rajuad, Rajwar) is a shifting cultivation community. The people of this community mainly live in Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal. The community living in Odisha is considered a Scheduled Tribe while the people living in other states are considered as OBC.[1][2][3][4]

Overview[edit]

The people living in Odisha are mostly from the Nagbansi group and they live in Mayurbhanj and Baleshwar districts. As of the 2011 census, they had a population of 3,517 and a literacy rate of 51.6 per cent in Odisha. Many years ago they lived in Chotanagpur and they were engaged in shifting cultivation. Later, They started to live with different ethnic people in a village when they found settleable land to live in the process of shifting cultivation. Now they have good land and they are also good farmers but some of them are flattened rice sellers.[5][2]

People living in Odisha speak Oriya but due to their proximity to Bengali-speaking people, many people use Bengali for daily conversation. The origin of the Rajuar community remains doubtful. While some researchers claim that the Rajuar caste is an offshoot of the Bhuyan, the people of West Bengal claim that the Rajuar caste was formed from a mixture of the Kurmi caste and the Kol caste.[6][7]

Society[edit]

The Rajuar is divided into endogamous groups such as Rajbansi, Rajbhar, Bhogta, Lathaur, Nagbansi and Nakchedia. Among those groups, the Nagabansi group is lagging in society. Again those groups are divided into some exogenous clans such as Nageswar(Nag), Kachap(Kachim), Sankhua(Sankh), Champa, Mukut(Mod), Sinha and Kashyapa. The surnames used by the Rajuar people living in Odisha are Behera, Ram, Ray, and Parmanik.[8][9][10]

The festivals celebrated by the people of Rajuar are similar to the festivals celebrated by the people of the region and are based on Hinduism. Dhulia Festival, Jantal Festival, Magha Puja, Bandhna and Karam Festival are considered the main festivals of Rajuar.[2]

Reference[edit]

  1. ↑ Singh, Kumar Suresh (1992). People of India: Odisha (2 pts.). Anthropological Survey of India. p. 1275. ISBN 978-81-7046-294-1.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ota, A. B.; Kodamasingh, Anjana; Kanhar, Nilamadhaba (2016). Rajuar. Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes Research and Training Institute. ISBN 978-93-80705-52-1.
  3. ↑ Division, India Census (1961). India. Office of the Registrar General. p. 1078.
  4. ↑ Panda, Nishakar (2006). Policies, Programmes, and Strategies for Tribal Development: A Critical Appraisal. Gyan Publishing House. p. 124. ISBN 978-81-7835-491-0.
  5. ↑ Kumar, Satinder (2000). Encyclopaedia of South-Asian Tribes: The Orakzi - The Rongmeis. Anmol Publications. p. 3062. ISBN 978-81-261-0517-5.
  6. ↑ Anthropology of Small Populations. Anthropological Survey of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Culture, Government of India. 1998. p. 131. ISBN 978-81-85579-46-7.
  7. ↑ Singh, Swaran (1994). Bathudi and Sounti Tribes: A Bio-anthropological Profile. Gyan Publishing House. p. 29. ISBN 978-81-212-0466-8.
  8. ↑ Singh, Kumar Suresh; India, Anthropological Survey of (2008). People of India. Anthropological Survey of India. p. 808. ISBN 978-81-7046-303-0.
  9. ↑ Kumar, Satinder (2000). Encyclopaedia of South-Asian Tribes: The Orakzi - The Rongmeis. Anmol Publications. p. 3062. ISBN 978-81-261-0517-5.
  10. ↑ Singh, Kumar Suresh (1998). India's Communities: H - M. Oxford University Press. p. 2964. ISBN 978-0-19-563354-2.

Further reading[edit]

  • Ota, A.B. "Rajuar" (PDF). Respiratory Tribal Government.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  • Sahoo, Yudhishṭhira; Sahoo, Ananta (2007). Rājuāra pariciti. Little known tribe (in ଓଡ଼ିଆ) (1 ed.). Bhubaneśvara: Ādibāsī Bhāshā o Saṃskr̥ti Ekāḍemī. OL 16472704M.
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