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    August 17, 2015 - By Aziza Ahmed Paula

    Adibasi is a term used for all the heterogeneous set of ethnic and tribal groups considered to be the indigenous population of Bangladesh. Adibashi people live mainly in the hill tracts of Chittagong belt also they live many other plain land areas of the country. There are about approx. 40 groups of Indigenous communities in Bangladesh. They cover almost two percent of the total population.  According to the government statistics the total number of Adivasi is 12,05,978 which is only 1.03 percent of the total population. The name of the indigenous communities are; Bawm, Chak, Chakma, Khyang, Khumi, Lushai, Marma,…

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