Economic Status of the Rajbanshis of Northern Part of West Bengal in Post Independent Period
Journal Title: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 10
Abstract
The Rajbanshis are considered the most important indigenous group inhabiting in the northern part of West Bengal, comprising the districts of Cooch Behar, Jalpaiguri, Alipurduar, Darjeeling, North & South Dinajpur and Malda. Economically they are more dependent on primary sector, i.e. agriculture. The Mughal land revenue system, the British land revenue reforms, the customary practices of different areas, and the ecological conditions largely determined the patterns of agrarian relations in different parts of Bengal. Unlike the upper caste gentry, these local peoples did not face the problem of status inconsistency if they themselves cultivated the land. However, the situation began to change from the late ninetieth century with the migration of people in this region. In North Bengal, large-scale transfer of land from the Rajbanshis to the nonRajbanshis, which had started, from the late nineteenth century was only accelerated further by these later developments. Alienation from their ancestral land and the transformation of Rajbanshi from land owing peasants to wage labour proletariats had various social connotations too and tension has been grown in North Bengal from time to time in respect of separate state and autonomous power in North Bengal.
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Dr. Madhab Chandra Adhikary
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