బంగ్లాదేశ్ లో 30 వేల తెలుగువారు, 150 ఏళ్ల చరిత్ర: చంద్రబాబు ఆదుకోవాలి 30,000 Telugus in Bangladesh

#profknageshwar
#ProfkNageshwaranalysis
#mlcnageshwar
#bangladesh #muhammadyunus #sheikhhasina

బంగ్లాదేశ్ లో 30 వేల తెలుగువారు, 150 ఏళ్ల చరిత్ర: చంద్రబాబు ఆదుకోవాలి || 30,000 Telugus in Bangladesh ||

A 150-year-old Telugu community in Bangladesh faces multiple challenges
Every year, Dhaka resident Trinath Baurusetty retraces the steps his forefathers took nearly two centuries ago. The 27-year-old embarks on a journey to India from the Bangladesh capital. After crossing the international border into West Bengal, he takes a train from Kolkata to Visakhapatnam. His destination is Etikoppaka village, renowned globally for its traditional toys. The village holds a geographical indication (GI) tag for its handicrafts. For Baurusetty, the place connects him to his Telugu roots.

“From a very young age, I was curious about my identity. I asked myself many questions about who I was. This quest has led me to make regular trips to Andhra Pradesh,” said Baurusetty in fluent Telugu. According to the information he gathered, his great-grandparents or the generation before them had migrated from Etikoppaka to Dhaka during British rule. People from many dalit families on the Andhra coast were taken for manual labour in the 1850s and later employed in tea plantations or as cleaners and scavengers in the railways and the Dhaka municipality. Today, Baurusetty is part of the 30,000-odd Telugus in Bangladesh.

K. Suryanarayana, professor emeritus at Andhra University in Visakhapatnam, said the trend was the result of cheap labour exploited by the East India Company. “The tea, teak and coffee plantations required labour, and the East India Company used workers from the area stretching from Rajahmundry to Ichapuram. They migrated to countries like Myanmar, which were considered Suvarnabhumi. In fact, in the 18th and 19th centuries, those who migrated to work in those countries earned a lot and were treated as rich foreigners by the locals. But some of them had to return without making much money and had to be rehabilitated by the governments.”
https://www.theweek.in/theweek/specia....