Socio-Culture Situation of Chamars A Sociological Study of Sabaila VDC in Dhanusha District

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dc.contributor.authorMahato, Santosh Kumar
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-22T07:06:04Z
dc.date.available2022-12-22T07:06:04Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThis aim of the study is to give short description of the Chamars, a socially dominated caste group of Nepal, regarding their socio-economic status. They are found mainly in Terai Region. Chamars are poorest. They are born in poverty, live in poverty and die in poverty. Their life and socio–cultural situation is still under the smoke of cloud. So, the question is how deeply these social trends affected their daily livelihood. This research attempts to focus on the various aspects of socio-cultural life of the Chamars. The general objectives of the study are to identify the socio-economic condition of Chamars people and the specific objectives are as follow:a) To analyze the livelihood strategies of Chamarsb) To describes the social economic situation of Chamars. For this purpose, the Sabaila VDC of the Dhanusha district is selected purposively. There are 96 Chamars households. The total population of the households is 528. The descriptive and analytic methods are used in this study.Mainly primary data are used form the field study to provide the reliability and equality to the dissertation.The Chamars are traditionally leather workers. According to the Hindu caste hierarchy, they are sudra and are known as Achut (Unfouchable). The Chamars had migrated from India to Nepal many years back. They now are depending mostly on wage labor and agriculture.The Chamars are in general, Hindus. They worship Hindu Gods and Goddesses. Their festivals of the Chamars are similar with Brahmans. They mainly celebrate Chhath, Dashain, Tihar, Tij, Maghe Sakranti etc. They play their traditionally and modern types of band (Baja) as well. Therefore, people invite them to play their band on weddings.Most of them are landless. Therefore, they are back in every field. They are uneducated and poor. Although they have their own native language, they prefer to speak Nepali language.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://elibrary.tucl.edu.np/handle/20.500.14540/13996
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherDepartment of Sociologyen_US
dc.subjectSocio-cultureen_US
dc.subjectChamar communityen_US
dc.titleSocio-Culture Situation of Chamars A Sociological Study of Sabaila VDC in Dhanusha Districten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
local.academic.levelMastersen_US
local.institute.titleCentral Department of Sociologyen_US
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