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With over three hundred
thousand populations, the Chakma are the largest ethnic indigenous tribe in Bangladesh.
They mostly live in the hill districts of Rangamati, Khagrachari and Bandarban.
From antiquity, the chief of chakma society is there Raja or the king in any
affairs of the tribe, the opinion of the Raja is considered to be final. Their
society is patriarchal and the lineage of male children remains unchanged in
all circumstances. Gins are considered as belonging to their husbands’ clan
after their marriage. They have their own traditional dress and clithes. They
cultivate cotton in jhum and color the thread with dye prepaid by themselves
from leaves of trees and barks.
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