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Demographic and Socio-Economic Status of Indigenous Tribal Community: A Case Study of Dinhata-II Block of Cooch Behar District, West Bengal.
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BISHNU BARMAN , TAMAL BASU ROY , BAPPA SARKAR , RANJAN ROY
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Schedule Tribe, Indigenous, Economic Status, Social Status, Santhal and Oraon.
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ABSTRACT: The study aimed to review the distribution, demography, and socio-economic status of Indigenous Tribal Communities of Dinhata-II Block in Cooch Behar District. Seven Gram Panchayat of Dinhata-II Blocks were selected for the study based on their highly scheduled tribe. The Research paper focuses on the distribution, demographic and Socioeconomic status of the Indigenous Tribal community of Dinhata-II block in the Cooch Behar District. A primary survey of 120 households was carried out and the various socio-economic statuses assessed were male-female distribution of population, fertility behaviors, size of the population, caste, religious composition, income, education level, occupation structure, size of landholding, etc. The study reveals that there are two different scheduled tribes (Santhal & Oraon) residing in the selected study area. The present study has used both primary and secondary sources of data. The secondary data has been collected from Several Reports and documents of Cooch Behar district and Dinhata-II Block, Census of India. The primary data has been collected from 7 Gram Panchayet of Dinhata-II Block through a questionnaire survey from 25th December 2023 to 25th February 2024 with a purposive random sampling technique and with the pre-designed questionnaire. The location Quotient analysis shows the block-wise concentration of the tribal population of the Cooch Behar district and the G.P.-wise concentration of the tribal population of the Dinhata-II block. The cartographic techniques have been used to show the male-female distribution of the tribal population, Sex composition, Age composition, sex ratio, age sex structure, education status, social composition, religious composition, educational composition, and occupational structure, The literature has been gathered from published articles, books and Govt report in the study area, the higher percentage of respondents reported that the main cause of backwardness and poverty as well as lack of education, lack of women awareness, lack of women empowerment, cultural constraints and lower status of living condition with their traditional activities of those communities.
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BISHNU BARMAN, TAMAL BASU ROY, BAPPA SARKAR, & RANJAN ROY (August-2024). Demographic and Socio-Economic Status of Indigenous Tribal Community: A Case Study of Dinhata-II Block of Cooch Behar District, West Bengal.. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 9(8), d501-d527. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2408392.pdf
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Volume 9 Issue 8, August-2024
Pages : d501-d527
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Paper Reg. ID: IJNRD_227217
Published Paper Id: IJNRD2408392
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Research Area: Social Science and HumanitiesÂ
Country: Coochbehar, West Bengal, India
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