(University of North Bengal, 2015-03) Pal, Surajit Kumar
In recent time North Bengal is turning out to be the seedbed of social
unrest as different ethnic groups are out to establish their own ethnopolitical
space. The Rabha, a small indigenous tribal group, who
inhabit the forest and non-forest villages, were a single united group
in terms of their socio-cultural system in the pre-independence period,
but in post-independence period they seem to be a fragmented lot.
They are fragmented along political and religious lines; the entry of
Christianity, in particular, has brought about boundaries within the
ethnic community.
