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Khatriya caste owns the large part of land in tarai. Rajputs and Bhumihar fall under

Khatriya caste.

Bhojpuri society is male dominant. The role of the eldest male member is immense in
Bhojpurian family. Their decisions are final decision. The woman can't even call her

husband by his name. She rather calls him as 'Hari's father'(if their son name is Hari).
Woman doesn't talk directly with her husband's elder brothers or father-in-law. She
keeps cover her head before elder male members of the family. The elder brother

doesn't touch the younger brother's wife. Most of the Bhojpurian families live in joint
family.

2.5 Genetic affiliation

Bhojpuri is an Indo-Aryan language. In Nepal, Indo-European family comprises Indo-
Aryan group of language. The largest group of the population speaks Indo-Aryan
languages, which is the 80% of total population in Nepal.

Grierson put Bhojpuri into 'Bihari' group. He notes that Magahi, Maithili and
Bhojpuri are three dialects of Bihari. The Bhojpuri language is the western branch of
the Bihari Sub-group of the Eastern group of the Indo-Aryan language of Indo-

European language family. Figure 1: presents the position of Bhojpuri.

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