Namasudra (Bengali: নমঃশূদ্র), earlier known as Chandal, is an Avarna Bengali Hindu community originating from eastern and central Bengal. The term Chandal or Chandala is usually considered as a slur. They were traditionally engaged in fishing and as boatmen, and later in cultivation. They lived outside the four-tier ritual varna system and thus were outcastes.
Namasudra (Bengali: নমঃশূদ্র), earlier known as Chandal, is an Avarna Bengali Hindu community originating from eastern and central Bengal. The term Chandal...
This article contains a list of notable people from the Namasudra caste, organized by profession, field, or focus. Harichand Thakur, founder of Matua...
though castes known as such are not practically present outside Bengal (Namasudras). During his travel across India in the 4th-5th centuries CE, Chinese...
India. Matua is a sect of depressed class AVARNA Bengali Hindus who are Namasudras, a Scheduled Caste group of Bengal. The movement was launched as a reformation...
barrister from the Namasudra community. In 1933, he married Binapani Devi Thakur. Thakur was a prominent member of the Namasudra community, whose great-grandfather...
Mahishyas and Brahmins as well as Scheduled Castes like Poundras and Namasudras. The surname is also found among Bengali Muslims and Bengali Christians...
Pakistan, and presently Bangladesh) on 29 January 1904, hailed from the Namasudra Community. Demonstrating academic prowess from an early age, Mandal excelled...
Development of the Education of the Namasudras" (PDF). Retrieved 27 August 2021. "Problem of Caste and Identity: The Namasudras of Colonial India" (PDF). Retrieved...
politician and former minister from West Bengal. Kanti Biswas was born in Namasudra community to Jogendranath Biswas at Bukrail, Kashiani, Faridpur district...
2016). "Bengal's unsung Namasudra movement". Biswas, Prokash (2 July 2017). "Historical Development of the Education of the Namasudras" (PDF). Journal of Advances...
movements in colonial Bengal, as discussed in Sekhar Bandyopadhyay’s ‘The Namasudra Movement’ and Sumit Sarkar’s ‘Writing Social History.’ The Motua faith...
Population of Bengali Muslims, Bihari Muslims and Bangladeshi low-caste Namasudras have increased rapidly in areas like Jalpaiguri, Oodlabari, Gairkata and...
Motha worker Pranajit Namasudra died after being attacked by unidentified miscreants in Dhalai. It has been reported that Namasudra and friends were travelling...
Harichand Thakur (c. 1812–1878) with his Matua organisation that involved the Namasudra (Chandala) community in the Bengal Presidency. Ambedkar himself believed...
the Matua section achieved a major organizational push and started the Namasudra protest movement (also known as the Matua Movement or Namashudra Movement)...
Matua community by allotting money for community-specific development of Namasudras and declaring the birthday of Harichand Thakur, founder of the Matua movement...
Chandala, a Sanskrit term referring to an outcaste group in Hindu society Namasudra, a Hindu community in Bengal formerly known as Chandals Chandal, Bangladesh...
different kinds of ideas. But the concept of Bharhutbrahma is unique. Namasudra Philpot, J. H. (January 2003). Sacred Tree Or the Tree in Religion and...
movement, along with Harichand Thakur through his Matua involving the Namasudra (Chandala) community in Bengal Presidency. Ambedkar himself believed Walangkar...
community of West Bengal, mainly concentrated in Coochbehar district Namasudra Lingayat/Veerashaiva, dominated in North Karnataka and Central Karnataka...
at University of Calcutta.[citation needed] In 1912 he founded Bengal Namasudra Association and held many conferences to mobilize Chandalas of Bengal...
police helped Ghulam Sarwar escape arrest. A large number of victims were Namasudra (a Bengali Hindu lower caste). According to a source quoting from the...
around 1860 AD by Harichand Thakur. The followers of this sect is mainly Namasudras, a Scheduled caste group in Bengal. They believe in Vaisnavite Hinduism...
ISBN 81-7023-205-8. Page 262. Caste, Protest and Identity in Colonial India: The Namasudras of Bengal, 1872-1947, by Shekhar Bandyopadhyaya. Routledge, 1997. ISBN 0-7007-0626-7...
writer and activist from West Bengal. Mohini Mohan Das was born into Namasudra family at Chandsi, Barisal district, Bengal Presidency (now Bangladesh)...
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