Baruas in Bangladesh and in assam

Barua people are the 100% Buddhist
people in  Bangladesh. Who are Buddhists by Birth.

      Barua (not at all to be confused with Assamese Barua) are a Bengali speaking Buddhist community in Bangladesh. They mainly live in the Chittagong region. Many moved to Kolkata, India after partition of India in 1947; many also moved to England in the 1950s and 1960s. The plain Buddhists of Bangladesh known as the Barua-Buddhist are the ancient peoples of Bangladesh who have lived here for five thousand years according to Arakanese chronology. They insist that they came from the Aryavarta or the country of the Aryans which is practically identical to the country later known as the Majjhimadesh or Madhyadesh in Pali literature. Bengali speaking Barua people of Chittagong are all Buddhist by religion, unlike Hindu Barua of Assam who are gen

erally Brahmins or Ahom or may belong to any other general caste in India.

     All the publications and articles for the history of Barua Buddhist community are partial snap-shot of different thoughts, ideas and perhaps based on the legendary story from ancestors but a solid research work based on archaeological and historical background is still pending. Barua is the last name of Bengali speaking People who are almost exclusively Buddhist and are concentrated heavily in the Chittagong and nearby hill tracts of Bangladesh, who migrated to Rangoon, Calcutta and many other cities during British Raj as Chefs and restaurant owners. 

Ajit K. Barua a Bangladeshi was a freedom fighter in 1971 sector-1 graduated from Dhaka university and later he came to Japan and living for the last 26 years. He is the founder Chairperson of Bangladesh Scholarship Council (BSC)recognized by the United Nations. This organization distributed more than 30 million Taka to the talented poor students throughout the country at the university level till 2008. He got married with Swapna Barua hails from Chittagong. They have two daughters Asmita Barua, Dipanita Barua and only son Bijoy Barua Rajeev Barua Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park.

    But not all people are from Bangladesh  Some of them are from Assam. Many centuries ago in assam 'baishnab dharma' when came into existence the people of assam were forcefully being converted into their religion. Due to which some Buddhist people (Barua) ran to Bangladesh and took their shelter and became the people of bangladesh but in the later years some of them came back to assam via west Bengal. The Bengali Baruas or the Buddhist baruas of assam have a mixed similarity of traditions of ahom for eg: both call their god as 'gohain' but pray to different gods. Similarity among the food habits of the people of Bangladesh and west Bengal  their mother tongue similar to the people of Chittagong  their dressings similar to the people of west Bengal.