Mundari in India


Population
Main Language
Largest Religion
Christian
Evangelical
Progress
Progress Gauge
* Data can be from various sources including official census, agencies, and local research. Data from these sources can sometimes differ even by orders of magnitude. Joshua Project attempts to present a conservative, balanced estimate.

Introduction / History

The Munda of Bangladesh are part of the larger Munda group, most of whom live in India. Racially the Mundas are proto-Australoid. Within Bangladesh they tend to live in villages which are separate from but near Bengali villages in western Rajshahi division. There are also some Munda living on the tea estates of Sylhet division. The Munda living on the tea estates do manual labor in the tea gardens for a daily wage. Many of those living in Rajshahi division work as seasonal day laborers for Bengali land owners.

The Munda in Bangladesh used to own and farm their own land, but in recent years many have lost a lot of their land and now are dependent on the meager daily wages they receive when there is work for day laborers. As a result, many Mundas live day-to-day, waiting to buy their food for the evening until they have received their pay for that day. Thus,
some major needs of the Munda are job skills training and also land rights intervention. The Munda who live in Rajshahi division are primarily Christian, and among the Christians, most are Catholic. A smaller portion of those living on the tea estates of Sylhet division are Christian. Many call themselves Hindu, though they may in actuality follow a traditional religion. Nominalism is prevalent among the Munda of Bangladesh, and an evangelical mission could work to meet not only their physical needs but also their spiritual needs.


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Scripture Prayers for the Mundari in India.


Profile Source:   Anonymous  

People Name General Mundari
People Name in Country Mundari
Alternate Names मुंदरी
Population this Country 29,000
Population all Countries 29,000
Total Countries 1
Indigenous Yes
Progress Scale 2
Unreached No
Frontier People Group No
Pioneer Workers Needed
PeopleID3 19041
ROP3 Code 115282
Country India
Region Asia, South
Continent Asia
10/40 Window Yes
National Bible Society Website
Persecution Rank 11  (Open Doors top 50 rank, 1 = highest persecution ranking)
Districts Interactive map, listing and data download
Specialized Website South Asia Peoples
Country India
Region Asia, South
Continent Asia
10/40 Window Yes
National Bible Society Website
Persecution Rank 11  (Open Doors top 50 rank, 1 = highest persecution ranking)
Total States 1
  Odisha 29,000
Website South Asia Peoples
Primary Religion: Hinduism
Major Religion Percent *
Buddhism
0.18 %
Christianity  (Evangelical Unknown)
5.23 %
Ethnic Religions
0.00 %
Hinduism
92.26 %
Islam
0.14 %
Non-Religious
0.00 %
Other / Small
0.01 %
Unknown
2.18 %
* From latest India census data.
Current Christian values may substantially differ.
Primary Language Mundari (13,000 speakers)
Language Code unr   Ethnologue Listing
Language Written Yes   ScriptSource Listing
Total Languages 22
Secondary Languages
(only 15 largest shown)
Odia
6,000
Ho
1,900
Munda
1,600
Kuvi
1,300
Hindi
700
Chhattisgarhi
400
Santhali
300
Bengali
300
Kharia
100
Kurux
80
Punjabi, Eastern
20
Telugu
10
Digaro-Mishmi Naga, Tangshang: Tangsa Naga, Mao
Primary Language Mundari (13,000 speakers)
Language Code unr   Ethnologue Listing
Total Languages 22
Secondary Languages (only 15 largest shown)
  Odia 6,000
  Ho 1,900
  Munda 1,600
  Kuvi 1,300
  Hindi 700
  Chhattisgarhi 400
  Santhali 300
  Bengali 300
  Kharia 100
  Kurux 80
  Punjabi, Eastern 20
  Telugu 10
  Digaro-Mishmi 10
  Naga, Tangshang: Tangsa 10
  Naga, Mao 0
People Groups Speaking Mundari
Photo Source Anonymous 
Map Source People Group data: Omid. Map geography: UNESCO / GMI. Map Design: Joshua Project.  
Profile Source Anonymous 
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