Volume-I, Issue-V, May 2025 > Volume-I, Issue-VI, July 2025
Volume-I, Issue-VI, July, 2025 |
Received: 08.07.2025 | Accepted: 10.07.2025 | ||
Published Online: 31.07.2025 | Page No: 1520-1526 | ||
DOI: 10.69655/atmadeep.vol.1.issue.06W.159 | |||
সাহেবধনী সম্প্রদায় ও সাম্প্রদায়িক সম্প্রীতি সঞ্জিত ভক্ত, গবেষক, লোকসংস্কৃতি বিভাগ, কল্যাণী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, নদীয়া, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ, ভারতসুজয় কুমার মন্ডল, অধ্যাপক, লোকসংস্কৃতি বিভাগ, কল্যাণী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, নদীয়া, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ, ভারত |
The Sahebdhani Community and Communal Harmony Sanjit Bhakta, Research Scholar, Department of Folklore, University of Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal, India Sujay Kumar Mandal, Professor, Department of Folklore, University of Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal, India | ||
ABSTRACT | ||
In term of living in a society, we must follow sets of beliefs, customs, rituals and other religious activities. If we tend to analyse the historical aspects of these social factors, we can discover both the scriptural and folk elements in their core formation; and it finds its root back to folklore and folk life. Many religious sub sects were formed beside the mainstream religions. They were emerged to enjoy the freedom, which were an escape of priests and maulavis and their burdens of codes of conducts. One of these sub sects are Sahebdhani sect. The founder of this sect is Muliram Pal. But his son Charan Pal preached this sect and represented it to a huge amount of people. It was emerged in the middle of 18th century in Nadia District. Although it was emerged in Dogachiya, the ‘mool asan’ was later shifted to the village named Brittihuda. Every year, the annual mela or festival is celebrated in Agradeep in Chaitra Ekadashi and also in Brittihuda village in the auspicious time of Baishakhi Purnima. Both the Hindus and Muslims are involved in the religious activities. The mantra is “Kling Deenanaam Deenabandhu” for the Hindus and “Deendayal Deenbandhu” for the Muslims. Interestingly, the Hindu bhaktas have Muslim gurus and vice versa. Sahebdhani sect does not uphold discrimination based on race and religion. The chief disciple of Charan Pal is Kubir Gosain who is the chief lyricist of the sect. It is clears from his songs that how much generous the sect is. They represent Hindu-Muslim harmony in this community as in other folk religions. The role of Sahebdhani sect in maintaining communal harmony will be highlighted in the main article. | ||
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