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The Bonaz people (Bengali: বোনাজ, Odia: ବୋନାଜ, romanized: Bonaj) are an Odia diaspora community that live in Srimangal, Bangladesh and Tripura, India. In the nineteenth century, the British brought them over from Odisha to work as tea garden labourers in Srimangal. They are Hindus and maintain a distinct identity in addition to their Bangladeshi identity, due to cultural, linguistic, geographical and historical reasons. Many have adopted the Bengali language; although only 10% of the community are actually literate in the language. They celebrate Phagwah and Durga Puja, and have managed to preserve some of their ballads and folk-tales orally as well as through performing cultural festivals. They are led by a leader known as a Behera and split into eight clans: Nag, Khanda, Tanidiya, Dudhus
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| dbo:abstract | The Bonaz people (Bengali: বোনাজ, Odia: ବୋନାଜ, romanized: Bonaj) are an Odia diaspora community that live in Srimangal, Bangladesh and Tripura, India. In the nineteenth century, the British brought them over from Odisha to work as tea garden labourers in Srimangal. They are Hindus and maintain a distinct identity in addition to their Bangladeshi identity, due to cultural, linguistic, geographical and historical reasons. Many have adopted the Bengali language; although only 10% of the community are actually literate in the language. They celebrate Phagwah and Durga Puja, and have managed to preserve some of their ballads and folk-tales orally as well as through performing cultural festivals. They are led by a leader known as a Behera and split into eight clans: Nag, Khanda, Tanidiya, Dudhusha, Rakta Kushila, Suryabamsa, Baghabamsa and Mahanandiya. A few of the minority that live in Tripura have forcefully been evangelised by the Joshua Project. (en) |
| dbo:language | dbr:Bengali_language dbr:Odia_language |
| dbo:populationPlace | dbr:Bangladesh dbr:India dbr:Srimangal dbr:Tripura,_India |
| dbo:religion | dbr:Christianity dbr:Hinduism |
| dbo:totalPopulation | 4400 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
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| dbo:wikiPageLength | 2129 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID | 1067252311 (xsd:integer) |
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| dbp:group | Bonaz (en) |
| dbp:langs | Bengali and Odia (en) |
| dbp:popplace | Srimangal - 4,000 (en) Tripura, India - 400 (en) |
| dbp:population | 4400 (xsd:integer) |
| dbp:relatedGroups | Indo-Aryan peoples, non-resident Odias (en) |
| dbp:religions | dbr:Christianity dbr:Hinduism |
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| rdf:type | owl:Thing wikidata:Q41710 dbo:EthnicGroup |
| rdfs:comment | The Bonaz people (Bengali: বোনাজ, Odia: ବୋନାଜ, romanized: Bonaj) are an Odia diaspora community that live in Srimangal, Bangladesh and Tripura, India. In the nineteenth century, the British brought them over from Odisha to work as tea garden labourers in Srimangal. They are Hindus and maintain a distinct identity in addition to their Bangladeshi identity, due to cultural, linguistic, geographical and historical reasons. Many have adopted the Bengali language; although only 10% of the community are actually literate in the language. They celebrate Phagwah and Durga Puja, and have managed to preserve some of their ballads and folk-tales orally as well as through performing cultural festivals. They are led by a leader known as a Behera and split into eight clans: Nag, Khanda, Tanidiya, Dudhus (en) |
| rdfs:label | Bonaz (en) |
| owl:sameAs | wikidata:Bonaz http://bn.dbpedia.org/resource/বোনাজ http://or.dbpedia.org/resource/ବୋନାଜ https://global.dbpedia.org/id/BvRZd |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom | wikipedia-en:Bonaz?oldid=1067252311&ns=0 |
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| foaf:name | Bonaz (en) |
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