<h2>About the Matua Community:</h2>

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	<li aria-level="1">Matuas trace their ancestry to East Bengal, and many of them entered West Bengal after Partition and after the formation of Bangladesh.&nbsp;</li>
	<li aria-level="1">Today, Matuas constitute the second largest SC population of West Bengal.</li>
	<li aria-level="1">The Matua community has members on either side of the Bengal border.</li>
	<li aria-level="1">The Matua Mahasangha, a religious reform movement and a sect was formed by Harichand Thakur in East Bengal in the mid-1800s.</li>
	<li aria-level="1">It is a Hindu reform movement which has a considerable number of adherents in West Bengal as well as in Bangladesh.</li>
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<h3>Q1) Who was Harichand Thakur?</h3>

Sri Sri Harichand Thakur was a Hindu monk known for his immense contribution for uplifting the untouchables in the undivided Bengal. He dedicated his whole life to bring salvation to the downtrodden and founded a sect of Vaishnavite Hinduism called &ldquo;Matua&rdquo;.

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