Munda people

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The Munda are a tribal (Adivasi) people of Jharkhand land which is spread over on five states of India (Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Chhatisgarh and Orissa), and in parts of Bangladesh. Their language is Mundari; it belongs to the Munda family of Austro-Asiatic languages, and in fact the family is named after the Munda people. There are some two million Munda people (twenty lakhs). About 25 percent of the population are Christians. Mundas have their Sarna religion in which they worship nature. They believe in supreme being called 'Sing Bonga', literary it means Sun God.

This article includes material from the 1995 public domain Library of Congress Country Study on India.

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