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Bengali Hindus in Myanmar

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has led to identity crisis among the Bengali Hindu population. While the Rohingyas prefer to use the term Rohingya to identify themselves, the Myanmar authorities insist on using the term Bengalis for the Rohingyas. As the Rohingyas are considered as illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, the Bengali Hindus
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in various capacities. A large section came as white collared executives in the administration, while a smaller proportion came as labourers in various projects. By the 1920s, the Bengali Hindus constituted a thriving community in the urban centres like Rangoon,
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In 1962, after the coup, an estimated 300,000 Indians were forced to leave Burma. The repatriates included a significant number of Bengali Hindus of East Bengal origin. The Bengali Hindu returnees were settled in four camps in
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in the late 1930s, the Bengali Hindus began to leave British Burma in hundreds. After the independence and especially the 1962 coup, large numbers of Bengali Hindus left for India.
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have started wearing small armbands to distinguish themselves from the Rohingya. The Bengali Hindu women have started wearing bindis to distinguish themselves from the
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are not recognized as full citizens as per the 1982 law, but are entitled to hold the ID Card for National Verification.
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in Rakhine State shun the usage of the term Bengali to identify themselves. They prefer to identify themselves as
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Index


Bengali Hindus
Durga Puja
Rangoon
Arakanese kings
Brahmins
Bengal
Doms
pagoda
Arakan
British Burma
Mandalay
Mawlamyine
Sittwe
anti-Indian movements
Bengali Hindu
Yangon
Sittwe
Rakhine State
Bengali Hindus
Myanmar
Rohingyas
Burmese Hindus
Bengali Hindus
Rohingyas
Kamarhati
Barasat
Bongaon
Hasnabad
West Bengal

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