{"id":6647,"date":"2025-08-25T12:35:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6647"},"modified":"2025-08-25T17:22:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:52:05","slug":"matua-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/matua-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Matua Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Matua Community Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A social outfit recently organised a march with members of the Matua community in Habra of North 24-Parganas to protest against the proposed special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bengal.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Matua Community<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Matua community, a <\/span><b>marginalized Hindu sect<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with <\/span><b>roots in the 19th century<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, holds a significant socio- religious presence in the <\/span><b>Bengal region<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, particularly across <\/span><b>Bangladesh and West Bengal.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Founded by Harichand Thakur in the 1860s, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Matua movement arose as a r<\/span><b>esponse to the deep-seated caste discrimination<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> present within Hindu society at the time.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As followers of the Matua faith, the community primarily belongs to the <\/span><b>&#8220;Namashudra&#8221; caste<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, traditionally regarded as a lower-caste group within Hinduism.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Harichand Thakur\u2019s teachings <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">centered on principles of <\/span><b>social equality, human dignity, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and the <\/span><b>empowerment of marginalized groups through education and religious reform, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">making the Matua movement a powerful counterforce to caste oppression.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Following the partition of Bengal <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in 1947, the Matua community experienced profound socio-political shifts.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Many Matua families migrated to India <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to escape religious and political persecution, although <\/span><b>a large portion o<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">f the community <\/span><b>remained in what later became Bangladesh.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, Matuas constitute the <\/span><b>second largest SC population of West Bengal.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/west-bengal\/apolitical-matua-march-against-sir-citizenship-worries-for-community-prnt\/cid\/2119580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matua community is a religious reform movement &#038; a sect formed by Harichand Thakur in East Bengal. 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