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The Supreme Court of Bangladesh ruled Biharis eligible for Bangladesh citizenship in 1972, and about 500,000 chose repatriation to Pakistan. [1] [12] Some repatriation was implemented by the Red Cross over a number of years, [13] but in 1978, the Pakistani government stripped Pakistanis remaining in Bangladesh of Pakistani citizenship. [12]
Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar said that the exercise is not caste census, instead its a caste survey. [ 38 ] [ 39 ] [ 40 ] On 4 May 2023, Patna High Court stayed the caste-based survey in its interim order, and directed the state government to keep the survey data, collected so far preserved till the next date of hearing (July 3, 2023).
In Bihar today, the Bihari identity is seen as secondary to caste/clan, linguistic and religious identity but nonetheless is a subset of the larger Indian identity. [3] Biharis can be found throughout India, and in the neighbouring countries of Nepal , Pakistan and Bangladesh .
The Bengali refugees who had settled in Bihar after the partition of India are denied land owning rights, caste certificates and welfare schemes. However, the Nitish Kumar government had promised to solve this problems and also to raise the status of Bangla as a language in the state. [61]
The party though headed in Bihar by a lower-backward caste leader Karpoori Thakur, consolidated the upper-backward castes. The latter were conspicuous to share power within the Party with the upper-caste, and the social structure of the Lok Dal even provided the Lohiaite upper-caste leaders to play a second fiddle within the party.
The quota for STs, however, is proposed to be slashed from 10% to 2%. With most of the tribal areas going to Jharkhand after the bifurcation of Bihar in 2000, the tribal population in Bihar is less than 2%. Bihar Government issued gazette notifications for raising the quota to 75% after Governor Rajendra Arlekar gave his assent to two bills. [9]
This article has the list of Schedule Castes in Bihar. List ... Caste Population %age of total SC population Bantar: 101,223 0.78% Bauri: 2,096 0.02% Bhogta: 12,659
Although Hindu society used to be [7] formally stratified into caste categories, caste did not figure prominently in the Bangladeshi Hindu community. About 75 percent of the Hindus in Bangladesh belonged to the lower castes, notably namasudras (lesser cultivators), and the remainder belonged primarily to outcaste or untouchable groups.