Chittagong Hill Tracts: Land, individuals and culture -1

Although Bangladesh's populace comprises for the most part of Muslim, Bengali speakers, it additionally contains an assortment of other ethnic gatherings living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). The CHT a home around 800,000 tribal individuals shaping 0.5 percent of the aggregate populace of the nation is a standout amongst the most various locales in the nation as far as topography, ethnicity, culture and customs of the general population. From time immemorial the CHT has been the home to eleven indigenous ethnic individuals. They are the Chakma, Marma, Tripura, Tanchangya, Mro, Lushai, Khumi, Chak, Khiyang, Bawm and Pangkhua; moreover, few descendants of Assamese, Gorkha and Santal likewise live there. There are additionally Bengali populaces in CHT in view of government endeavors to resettle the range with Bengali individuals amid the 1980s. The indigenous Jumma individuals are particular and not quite the same as the dominant part Bengali individuals of Bangladesh in regard to ethnicity, culture, customs, race, dialect, legacy, religion, political history and economy. The CHT involve a region of 13,295 square kilometers (5,133 sq mile) in southeastern Bangladesh and fringe India and Myanmar. The tracts are around 60 km (37mile) east of Chittagong. They shaped a solitary locale of Bangladesh until 1984, when they were isolated into three areas: Khagrachari, Rangamati, and Bandarban. The few ethnic gatherings that living space the CHT every one of them has their own particular dialect and culture.