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A large number of people from the Bhojpuri speaking regions of Bihar Province and Uttar Pradesh Province of British India travelled to various parts of the world in the 19th century to serve as indentured labours on sugarcane, cocoa, rice, and rubber plantations in the Caribbean, Fiji, Mauritius, Myanmar, Seychelles and Natal, South Africa.
Indian diaspora in Southeast Africa. Indian South Africans. ... Bihari diaspora; Gujarati diaspora; Kashmiri diaspora; Malayali diaspora; Marathi diaspora; Mizo diaspora;
A group of High caste Bihari women in Gopalganj district (1915) A man from Bihar, attending Kumbh Mela. Agriculture workers in Gopalganj, ca. 1915. The traditional dress of Bihari people includes Dhoti and Chapkan [25] [26] or Kurta (replacing the older chapkan which is a robe fastened on the right or on the left) [26] for men and Saree for
The Bhojpuri-speaking country is inhabited by a people curiously different from people who speak Bihari dilects. They form the fighting nation of Hindostan. An alert and active nationality, with few scruples, and considerable abilities, dearly loving a fight for fighting's sake, they have spread all over Aryan India, each men ready to carve his ...
Map of South Asia. The South Asian diaspora, also known as the Desi diaspora, [1] is the group of people whose ancestral origins lie in South Asia, but who live outside the region. [2] There are over 44 million people in this diaspora. [3]
A majority of Indo-Mauritians are of Bihari origin, and most Mauritians are Indo-Mauritian. Caste-wise, many Bihari Mauritians are Vaishyas, with notable groups including Bhumihars, Brahmins, Rajputs, Koeri, Chamars, Yadav, Kurmis, Banias, and Kayastha. Except for one, all Mauritian Prime Ministers have been of Bihari Vaishya descent.
Bihari Mauritians · Tamil Mauritians · Indian diaspora in Southeast Africa · Malayalese Mauritians · Indo-Caribbeans · Indo-Fijians · Indian South Africans · Indian people · Indian diaspora · Bihari diaspora · Tamil diaspora · Malayalese diaspora
Outside India, the Koeris are distributed among the Bihari diaspora in Mauritius where they were taken as indentured labourers. [15] They also have a significant population residing in Nepal . In 1977, the government of Bihar introduced an affirmative action of quota in government jobs and universities which has benefitted the backward castes ...