{"id":6647,"date":"2026-05-19T11:35:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6647"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:17:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:47:41","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;\">Most of the Matuas, who migrated from neighbouring Bangladesh during different time-periods do not have sufficient documents to apply for citizenship under the CAA.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Matua Community<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Matua community, a<\/span><b> marginalized Hindu sect <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with roots in the 19th century, 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=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Founded by Harichand Thakur in the 1860s,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the Matua movement arose as a<\/span><b> response 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=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Religious Beliefs:\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As followers of the<\/span><b> Matua faith,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the community primarily belongs to the <\/span><b>\u201cNamashudra\u201d caste, traditionally regarded<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as a <\/span><b>lower-caste group <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">within Hinduism.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><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=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Matua sect is <\/span><b>monotheist<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It <\/span><b>does not follow Vedic ritual<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s, and <\/span><b>singing hymns in praise of the deity<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is their way of prayer and meditation.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They believe that salvation lies in faith and devotion. Their <\/span><b>ultimate objective<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is to <\/span><b>attain truth through meditation and worship.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Matua have <\/span><b>no distinctions of caste, creed, or class<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. They believe that everyone is a child of God.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Shrishriharililamrta <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a <\/span><b>principal religious scripture<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the Matua.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Following the partition of Bengal <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in 1947, the Matua community experienced profound <\/span><b>socio-political shifts.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><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 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the community remained in what later became Bangladesh.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><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><strong>:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/ccidist-ws\/th\/th_delhi\/issues\/185622\/OPS\/GGTG0GCP4.1+GO2G0HVHB.1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matua Community is a marginalized Hindu sect with roots in the 19th century. 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