Social Relations of Sweepers in Bangladesh

从1998年开始，我们进行了一项名为“现代化与国际化对政治结构、社会结构与地域性的影响——以孟加拉国和日本为例”的调查。我们了解了种姓问题在伊斯兰社会中的重要性，以及处于印度教社会底层、受歧视最严重的清洁工种姓群体。吉大港有4个印度清洁工殖民地。本研究于2000年4月以问卷形式对班德尔清洁工社区所有住户进行调查。在上述前期研究工作的基础上，我们开始了这项新的研究工作。它包括各种类型的调查。通过2002 - 2005年的调查，我们有以下发现：吉大港：殖民地的庇护所（住房）只提供给印度教清洁工。吉大港市民不会打扰穆斯林清洁工待在任何地方，但印度教徒却不会，因为他们被认为是社会经济阶层的最低阶层，往往被社会排斥在外。印度教扫地者由两组组成，一组来自北印度= ‘哈里詹’，另一组来自孟加拉= ‘孟加拉印度教徒’。达卡：印度教徒和穆斯林分别住在城市公司的清洁工聚居区。达卡的印度教清洁工分为两类；一个是来自印度北部的移民，如吉大港，被称为“哈里詹”，另一个来自印度南部，即现在的印度安得拉邦，被称为“泰鲁格”。根据种姓和宗教，每个群体中都有少数民族。最严格的限制是与其他民族的通婚。所以，他们分别生活在每个族群聚居地。

Since 1998, we had conducted a survey, " Change of Political Structure, Social Structure and the locality by Modernization and Internationalization : case studies of Bangladesh and Japan". We came to know about the significance of Caste issue in the Islam society, and the sweeper caste groups located at the bottom of Hindu Society and most severely discriminated.Chittagong has 4 Hindu sweepers colonies. We do the survey with questionnaire of all households of Bandel Sweeper Colony in April 2000.Based on the above previous research work, we started this new research work. It consists of various types of surveys. Through the surveys from 2002 to 2005, we had the following findings;1. Chittagong :Shelters (housing) in Colonies are provided to only Hindu sweepers. Muslim sweepers are not bothered to stay anywhere by citizens of Chittagong, but Hindus are done, because of their being recognized as the lowest in a social economic strata by which they tend to be excluded socially. Hindu sweepers consist of two groups, one for north India origin = 'Harijan' and another for Bengal origin = 'Bengal Hindu'.2. Dhaka :Both Hindus and Muslims live separately in City Corporation's Sweepers Colonies. Hindu sweepers in Dhaka consist of two groups ; one for migrants from north India same as in Chittagong which is called 'Harijan', and another from south India, present Andhra Pradesh, India, which is called 'Telugue'. There are ethnic sub groups in each group by caste and religion. The severest restriction is intermarriage with other ethnic sub groups. So, they live separately in each ethnic group colony.