Bhojpuri people
Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group
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Culture
Language and literature
Bhojpuri language is spoken by around 50 million people. It is native to the Bhojpuri region of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in India as well as the Terai region of Madhesh and Lumbini in Nepal. Bhojpuri is sociolinguistically considered as one of the "Hindi dialects" although it linguistically belongs to the geographic Bihari languages branch derived from the larger branch of Eastern Indo-Aryan languages. The first Bhojpuri novel Bindiyã was written by Ram Nath Pandey in 1955. It was published by Bhojpuri Sansad, Jagatganj, Varanasi. Bhikhari Thakur was a famous writer of Bhojpuri language and founder of Bhojpuri songs. His famous book is Bidesiya.
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Cuisine
Bhojpuri cuisine is part of North Indian cuisine. It is mild and spice is less used, Awadhi cuisine and Mughlai cuisine have largely influenced it. On the other side, it has majorly influenced cuisines of the Caribbean, Fiji, Mauritius, and South Africa.
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Influence and reputation
According to G.A. Grierson, Bhojpuri people have influence all over India and called them people from energetic race and also the Civilizer of Hindostan. In order to compare Bhojpuriyas with Maithils and Magahis he writes:
He further writes that Bhojpuri people form the fighting nation of Hindostan, and has praised for grab any opportunity. He writes:
Notable people
- Mangal Pandey, Freedom fighter from Ballia
- Anand Satyanand, First ethnic Indian, non-white, non-Maori, Roman Catholic, Asian and ethnic minority Governor General of New Zealand from 2006 to 2011
- Kabirdas, Poet and saint
- Ravidas, Poet and saint
- Ravindra Kishore Sinha, Billionaire businessman and politician
- Suryakumar Yadav, Indian Cricketer
- Yashasvi Jaiswal, Indian Cricketer
- Krushna Abhishek, Bollywood actor and comedian
- Manoj Bajpayee, Bollywood actor
- Vinay Pathak, Bollywood actor
- Pankaj Tripathi, Bollywood actor
- Rajpal Yadav, Bollywood actor
- Akhilendra Mishra, Actor and comedian
- Daya Shankar Pandey, Actor
- Aditya Lakhia, Actor
- Raghubir Yadav, Actor and singer
- Rajesh Vivek, Actor and comedian
- Ravi Kishan, Actor and politician
- Manoj Tiwari, Actor, singer and politician
- Pawan Singh, Actor, singer and politician
- Dinesh Lal Yadav, Actor, singer, producer and politician
- Khesari Lal Yadav, Actor, singer, dancer and model
- Sudhanshu Pandey, Actor, singer, writer, producer and model
- Siddhant Chaturvedi, Bollywood actor
- Amita Suman, Actress
- Vindhya Tiwari, Actress
- Rati Pandey, Actress
- Divyanka Tripathi, Actress
- Surbhi Tiwari, Actress
- Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian independence activist and politician (Bharat Ratna)
- Dr. Rajendra Prasad, First President of India
- Lal Bahadur Shastri, Second Prime Minister of India
- Chandra Shekhar, Former Prime Minister of India
- Lalu Prasad Yadav, Politician and former Chief Minister of Bihar
- Bhikhari Thakur, Author
- Heera Dom, Poet
- Raj Mohan, Singer
- Dinesh Bhramar, Poet
- Bindeshwari Dubey, Freedom fighter and politician
- Om Prakash Rajbhar, Politician
- Saryu Rai, Politician
- Medini Ray, King of Palamu in 17th century
- Babu Veer Kunwar Singh, Maharaja of Jagdishpur estate
- Parichay Das, Author
- Manoj Bhawuk, Poet
- Anjana Om Kashyap, Journalist
- Chandan Tiwari, Folk singer
- Nitish Kumar, Chief Minister of Bihar and politician
- Munshi Premchand, Author
- Bahadur Prasad, Olympian
- Manoj Sinha, Former Member of Parliament, Lt. Governor of Jammu and Kashmir
- Ajay Rai, Politician
- Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Doctor, first Prime Minister of Mauritius
- Aneerood Jugnauth, Barrister, second Prime Minister of Mauritius