The Tripura



Tripura of Bangladesh


The Tripura are one of the ancient ethnic indigenous groups living in the sub-continent. The main segment of their community lives in the Indian state of Tripura while over a hundred of them are settled in greater Chittagong Hill Tract area. Besides about a fifty thousand Tripuras are scattered in Chittagong. Noakhali, greater Comilla, Sylhet, Faridpur and Dhaka. The Tripuras are of Mongoloid origin. Historians say that their ancestors came to India from Mongolia by crossing Tibet and Siberia of central Asia five thousand years ago. They speak Cork-Bork and their family structure is patriarchal. Though they follow sanaton-dharma or the eternal religion, they only worship 14 Vedic gods and goddesses.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Thanks