RESOLVING IDENTITY CRISIS OF PEOPLE FROM KAMATA-KOCH-RAJBANSHI ORIGIN
RESOLVING IDENTITY CRISIS OF PEOPLE FROM KAMATA-KOCH-RAJBANSHI ORIGIN All Rajbanshi groups of ethnic people have mixed features of Mongoloid, Dravidian and Aryan but, Mongoloid features predominate. Due to displacement from urban areas/towns, these people form the majority in population only in rural areas. Poverty, lack of education, distorted identity and influx of refugees from erstwhile East Pakistan(East Bengal) and settling down in North Bengal and Assam; are the main reasons for selling their lands in urban areas and as such, the result is their displacement. In Assam, differences in social status exist between mainstream Assamese people and Koch Rajbanshi. In North Bengal, mainstream Bengali society and Rajbanshi people are different. All efforts for considering Rajbanshi people as Bengali has not succeeded. Although, number of highly placed Rajbanshi people pretend to identify themselves as Bengali but,