
Livelihood Patterns of Bihari Community
A Study at Khalishpur Bihari Camp in Khulna City
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Published on 21. December 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
72 pages
978-3-8473-2116-3 (ISBN)
Description
Relatively a huge number of populations who came from different parts of India mainly from Bihar after the partition of the sub-continent(Ahmed,2003)in 1947 and settled in Bangladesh and opposed the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971 are known as Bihari,a stateless community,artificial minority or stranded Pakistanis.The Bihari community in Bangladesh attracted much attention after the independence of Bangladesh and many scholars and development practitioners studied extensively on different aspects of the community.The Bihari community in Bangladesh is deprived of all rights.They could hardly manage jobs for themselves,which reflected their economic insecurity and food insecurity as well.Inadequate medical facilities in the camps indicated their insecurity of health, thereby becoming vulnerable to various diseases and poor health with debilitating illness.Study was conducted on the Bihari community at Khalishpur camp in Khulna district.For conducting this study,12 case studies and two FGDs were used. Study mainly focused on the livelihood pattern of the targeted targeted community.Based on the major findings,study concluded with some recommendations to overcome the problems.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Germany
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
125 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8473-2116-3 (9783847321163)
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Dr. Vivek Verma, a Civil Engineering researcher in Water & Environmental Engineering, holds a Ph.D. and Postdoc from FIU, USA, with many publications and three U.S. awards. Dr. PK Ghosh, an expert in Structural & Environmental Engineering, has 38 years of R&D and teaching experience and is Vice Chancellor of Dr. CV Raman University.