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• 1- covers ethno historical situations of some tribe and caste groups in the Indian scene, cultural characteristics of Border Bengal, scheduling of some groups after independence, a brief note on identity problems, objectives and methodology of this work.
• 2- shows geo-physical situations within which the Bagals live along with other tribes and castes.
• 3- analyses the myths of origin and migration of the people, population structure, food habits, literacy, languages for communications of the Bagals of the villages selected for study.
• 4- focuses on the different materials and equipment made and used by the Bagals to satisfy their day-to-day needs.
• 5- illustrates the occupational structure of the Bagals with an emphasis on their different modes of food production, collection of forest and other resources available in the locality, division of labour, land holding pattern, economic interaction in the neighbouring ethnic groups and the weekly markets etc.
• 6- delineates the basic structural principles by which the individuals and the group behave and organise to achieve the goal. In this regard different unit of social organisation, viz ., clan, lineage, family, kinship and their interre lationships and functions have been described.
• 7- deals with the mechanism of social control of the Bagals when their peace and harmony is disturbed due to various factors, local disputes, violation of societal norms etc.
• 8- enlightens different important phases of life, viz., birth, puberty, marriage and death, and also how the different rites and rituals are observed by the Bagals, in connection with these life cycle rites are noted carefully.
• 9- an emphasis has been given to understand their different deities, spirits or ghosts and their mode of propitiation, their different rituals, beliefs and practices; and also their involvement and participation in different communities and local festivals. In course of this ethnographic study of the Bagals , cross - cultural comparisons have also been made with some other tribes, viz ., the Santals, the Mundas, and the Lodhas with a view to examine the similarity or distinctiveness of the cultural traits between them. Similarly, emphasis has also been put to co-relate the linkages of the cultural traits with the local Hindu castes.
• 10- an attempt has been made by the researcher to discuss the cultural identity of the Bagals in the regional social order.

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