{"id":85056,"date":"2020-11-06T15:30:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=18383"},"modified":"2021-05-17T13:44:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T08:14:45","slug":"explained-the-miyas-of-assam-and-their-char-chapori-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-the-miyas-of-assam-and-their-char-chapori-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: The Miyas of Assam, and their char-chapori culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> A proposed \u201cMiya museum\u201d reflecting the culture and heritage of the people living in char-chapouris has stirred up a controversy in Assam.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Who are the Miyas? <\/strong>The \u2018Miya\u2019 community comprises descendants of Muslim migrants from East Bengal (now Bangladesh) to Assam.They came to be referred to as \u2018Miyas\u2019, often in a derogatory manner.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What is Char-chapouris? <\/strong>A char is a floating island while chaporis are low-lying flood-prone riverbanks.It is located in the Brahmaputra River and is primarily inhabited by Miya community.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Culture of Miya Community: <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>They perform an ancient martial art called the Lathiba.<\/li>\n<li>The community has a variety of songs such as bhatiali Geet related to the river, magan geet or harvest songs, noi khelor geet or boat songs among others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: A proposed \u201cMiya museum\u201d reflecting the culture and heritage of the people living in char-chapouris has stirred up a controversy in Assam. &nbsp; Facts: Who are the Miyas? The \u2018Miya\u2019 community comprises descendants of Muslim migrants from East Bengal (now Bangladesh) to Assam.They came to be referred to as \u2018Miyas\u2019, often in a derogatory&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-the-miyas-of-assam-and-their-char-chapori-culture\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained: The Miyas of Assam, and their char-chapori culture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1351,1310,956],"tags":[1972,2193],"class_list":["post-85056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-assam","tag-miyas","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":1,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704310927},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}