Sabrin, Farah, et al. height and weight) were performed according to the standard procedures 14. In 1832, a large number of areas were demarcated as Damin-i-koh.
Delayed growth due to nutritional factors can be resolved by educating the parents to provide the well-balanced diet. WHO (World Health Organization) Working Group. 64. The symptoms of ill health of children includes: lack of interest in playing, sleepiness, imbalance and unstable body temperature, and frequent crying. Relationship between family status and children BMI, Table 8.
About 72% and 80% families of Santhal and Oraon respectively earned 5000-10,000 taka per month. %PDF-1.5 %���� The clans also avoid harming their clan totem, lest evil befall them. Relationship between BMI and disease, Table 9. The Santal or Santhal, are a Munda ethnic group native to India and Bangladesh.
There is no significant relationship between BMI and diseases (p=0.992) (Table 8). Cole T.J., Flegal K.M., Nicholls D., Jackson A.A., âBody mass index cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents: international surveyâ. north of Dhaka.
It is obvious that such information that we defined would be indispensable to way out their problems with probable solution. The greeting rituals given by a hudin involve a "offering" of respect, while a marang "receives" this respect. Based on the interrelationships of height, weight and age, height for age, weight for age and height for weight have been calculated to determine their nutritional status 16.
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This would only solve one or a part of the problem.
About 46% of indigenous people live in Rangamati, 28.9% in Kagrachari and 18% in Bandarban district at Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) 12. That is why they are far from the light of development as well as from good health. Somadder P.D., Rana M., Ferdoushi A., Tamanna A., Ahmad A.S.I. However most continued with their old life, but were still not prosperous. It can be used to verify the existence of nutritional problem in a population and to assess its magnitude. Most surprisingly, 22% and 18% parents from Santhal and Oraon community did not take any education. Educational status, employment in good job and mainly, the socioeconomic condition of the tribal in our country should be improved to solve these problems. The term refers to inhabitants of Saont, now in the Midnapore region of West Bengal, the traditional homeland of the Santals.
Table 6 focused the food intake ability of the study groups. The survey covered a random sample of 150 children among three groups (Bengali, Santhal and Oraon).
Ferdoushi A., Rana M., Mahmud S., Datta D. and Akter F., Health and Nutritional Status of the Selected Orphanage Children in Tangail City. High number of Bengali parents of this area took education from high school and College; the number was 46% and 28% respectively. Anthropometric measurements (i.e. Santals from Cuttack, Dhalbhum, Birbhum, Manbhum and Hazaribagh, now in northern Odisha and western West Bengal migrated and started cultivating these lands. The indigenous peoples of Bangladesh are referred to native ethnic minorities in south-eastern, north western, north-central and north-eastern regions of the country.
Out of them, Santhal is an important tribe which contributes more than 50% of the Indian tribal population. The talent of Santhal Tribe is safely passed on from one generation to the other.
In addition, Besras are sometimes treated differently due to their perceived low status, but other than the context of marriage, they play no role in social life. It has 1.2 million tribal people which is just above one percent of the total population which belong to in about 58 tribal groups who are living in different parts of the country. Bull.
Majority of the tribal were thin and lean with medium to short stature.
[20], Santal art is noticeable for its intricate carving style. ———. Chadar Badar, a form of puppetry known also as Santal puppetry, is a folk show involving wooden puppets placed in a small cage which acts as the stage. Assessment of Nutritional Status Using Heights and Weightsâ, Anthropologist, 9(1), 189-197, July 2007. The frequency distributions of the entire variables were checked by using SPSS 20.0 Windows program. It is thought to be the oldest indigenous tribe that belongs to the Pre Aryan period [12]-[14]. Comparison of Nutritional Status and Socio-demographic Condition among the Children of Bengali, Santhal & Oraon Community in North-Western Part of Bangladesh.
The height was measured using a measuring tape without shoes and the average was calculated and recorded with standard error. Christianity is practised by 8.3% present of the population. However, information on tribal communities specially Santhal and Oraon is extremely scanty and there is no data available on BMI distribution and BMI based nutritional status of these tribal children of north-western part of Bangladesh. Occupations of the parents of the children in study groups, Table 5. This study indicates some reasons that may consider for their high rate of underweight and illness of tribal children includes: not economically solvent, unable to eating adequate balanced food, most of the childrenâs fathers are farmer and domestic worker, have more than one brother/sister, not conscious about hygienic practice, potential internal problems include gastrointestinal problems such as chronic diarrhea, disorders that hinder nutrient absorption, chronic illnesses, food allergies such as lactose intolerance etc.
In 2006, Dr. Muhammad Samad studied on âThe Santhal in Bangladesh: Problems, Needs and Development Potentialsâ and represented that there are about 70 distinctly recognizable indigenous nationalities in Bangladesh. However, little research has been done among indigenous people in this country. Where 10% of Bengali parents were employed in different government job but 0% of Santhal and only 2% of Oraon were employed. Administration of the community was primarily made the responsibility of the village headman, or pradhan, who was also given the power to collect taxes. Among them, 32.94% Bengali, 31.76 % Santhal and 35.29% Oraon were male and 33.85% Bengali, 35.35 % Santhal and 30.77% Oraon were female.
On comparison with the WHO/NCHS standard, more male of study area had normal weight then the female. Comparison of Nutritional Status and Socio-demographic Condition among the Children of Bengali, Santhal & Oraon Community in North-Western Part of Bangladesh. [7], After independence, the Santals were made one of the Scheduled Tribes. [6], The Santals have another social organisation important for rituals, called khunti, or gusti in south Chota Nagpura. âUse and interpretation of anthropometric indicators of nutritional statusâ.
The Santals speak Santali, the most widely spoken of the Munda languages. It also found that, children aged â¤10 years have DMFT (mean±SD) 1.17±3.31; children aged 11-17 years have DMFT (mean±SD) 1.29±3.05; and children aged â¥18 years have DMFT (mean±SD) 0.33±0.58. Masud Rana and his co-workers worked on âComparative assessment of nutritional status among children of three tribal populations of Rangamati District, Bangladeshâ and showed that among most of the respondents from 20-39 years age group, half of the participants completed primary level education. 30,000 Santals, led by Sidhu and Kanhu Murmu, attacked the zamindars and other outsiders who had made their lives so miserable, as well as British tax collectors widely seen as corrupt and cruel. About 66.7% respondents earned >10000 BDT per month. [7], When they arrived, the British provided no protection for the Santals against the Mal Paharias, who were known raiders of the plains areas and had only recently been partially "pacified." [17][16], According to the 2011 Indian Census, majority of the Santal's from Jharkhand follow Hinduism at 54%, with 37% following "other religions and persuasions," mainly Sarna Dharam. Santal Music: A Study in Pattern and Process of Cultural Persistence, Tribal Studies of India Series; T 115. London: Lutterworth Press, 1949. The Santhal and Oraon people described ill health as appearing dull, weak and turning dark, lack of appetite, sleepiness, the inability to much walk, the inability to frequent talk, startling movements, drowsiness, sunken eyes, pale and dry eyes, pain in the body etc.
Among them, Santhal are one of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable indigenous communities. Then British officials turned their attention to Santals, who were ready to clear the forest for the practice of settled agriculture. The paper tries to explain heartening situation of Indian tribes with reference to Santhal communities in Birbhum district and also finds out various cultural as well as food habits, religious practices, social system like marriage and various types of awareness.