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- Description: Boats of Bedey community, at Shirajdikhan, in Munshiganj, Bangladesh. May 6, 2008. Bedey, a community belonging mainly to the ethnic Mong; tong (Mangta) of ARAKAN, who in 1638, accompanied the fugitive king of Arakan, Ballal Raja, and later settled in Bikrampur area near DHAKA. The Mangta people were popularly called Bedey after the Bangla word Baidda meaning village doctor. Bedeys pretend to know the art of healing, which they use as a source of living besides snake catching, snake; charming etc. The community generally lives in clusters on machans, platforms, constructed by the side of rivers or on boats.
- Credits: Firoz - (Bangladesh) Ahmed/Majority World
- Keywords: asia, bangladesh, bedey, bedey community, blue, boats, color, colour, country, country side, day, daylight, developing countries, developing country, dinghies, firoz ahmed, green, gypsies, horizontal, majority world, marsh, munshiganj, rural, rural life, sirajdukhan, south asia, swamp, third world, village, water body, wet land
- Added: Aug 22, 2016
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- Photographer: Firoz Ahmed
- Owner: Firoz Ahmed
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- Description: Boats of Bedey community, at Shirajdikhan, in Munshiganj, Bangladesh. May 6, 2008. Bedey, a community belonging mainly to the ethnic Mong; tong (Mangta) of ARAKAN, who in 1638, accompanied the fugitive king of Arakan, Ballal Raja, and later settled in Bikrampur area near DHAKA. The Mangta people were popularly called Bedey after the Bangla word Baidda meaning village doctor. Bedeys pretend to know the art of healing, which they use as a source of living besides snake catching, snake; charming etc. The community generally lives in clusters on machans, platforms, constructed by the side of rivers or on boats.
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- Country: Bangladesh
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- Image Description: Boats of Bedey community, at Shirajdikhan, in Munshiganj, Bangladesh. May 6, 2008. Bedey, a community belonging mainly to the ethnic Mong; tong (Mangta) of ARAKAN, who in 1638, accompanied the fugitive king of Arakan, Ballal Raja, and later settled in Bik
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