Back হাজং জনগোষ্ঠী Assamese হাজং Bengali/Bangla হাজং BPY Mutanen Hajong Hausa हाजोंग लोग Hindi Orang Hajong ID ᱦᱟᱡᱚᱝ ᱦᱚᱲ ᱠᱚ SAT ஹஜோங் மக்கள் Tamil హజాంగు ప్రజలు Tegulu
 Hajong girls performing folk dance during the Hornbill Festival. | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 79,800[1] (2011) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 India | 71,800 |
| Meghalaya | 41,414[2] |
| Assam | 27,521[3] |
 Bangladesh | 7,996[4] |
| Languages | |
| Hajong | |
| Religion | |
| Hinduism, Dyaoism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Bodo-Kachari peoples, other Tibeto-Burman-speaking peoples | |
The Hajong people are an ethnic group from Northeast India and northern parts of Bangladesh.[5] The majority of the Hajongs are settled in India and are predominantly rice-farmers. They are said to have brought wet-field cultivation to Garo Hills, where the Garo people used slash and burn method of agriculture.[6] Hajong have the status of a Scheduled Tribe in India[7] and they are the fourth largest tribal ethnicity in the Indian state of Meghalaya.[8]
- ^ "Ethnologue - Hajong". Ethnologue. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
- ^ "Census of India Website : Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India". Archived from the original on 15 August 2018.
- ^ "Census of India Website : Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India". Archived from the original on 15 August 2018.
- ^ "Table 1.4 Ethnic Population by Group and Sex" (PDF). Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. 2021. p. 33. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 March 2023. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
- ^ "The Hajong". The Independent. 27 March 2008. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
- ^ "The Hajong of Bangladesh: A Sociolinguistic Survey". SIL International. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
- ^ "List of notified Scheduled Tribes" (PDF). Retrieved 7 January 2020.
- ^ Research paper by Dr. Khema Sonowal (2014). Tribes of North-East India: A Study on ‘Hajongs’ http://theglobaljournals.com/gra/file.php?val=February_2014_1393595039_2cd81_83.pdf
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