no. | subject | page no. | 1. | Topic name & Area map | | 2. | Abstract | | 3. | Introduction | | 4. | Background Information | | 5.. | Questionnaire | | 6. | Findings | | 7. | Conclusion | | 8. | Images | | 9. | Participatory social map of the area | | 10. | Works cited | |
Abstract
Community means “a social group of any size whose members resides in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage”. And our chosen community is “bakarkhani maker” community. We studied at Nimtoli and nazim uddin road Ward no 69 which is situated in Old part of the mega city Dhaka. Our main topic of the research paper is an urban community (bakarkhani maker) and their profession, value system where local level participation is very important for development and decision making. The area is unexplored and very few research done in this topic which is rear and we hope this will make this paper interesting and different for everyone. There are hardly got few researches on this area and we are experiencing and doing the research as our first research paper on this community which makes our research paper more interesting and potential. In our research we did survey and case study. We took primary data by taking three “bakarkhani maker’s” interview and took secondary data from internet and article.
Introduction
When we think of a community we think always about the rural communities or some common community like sweeper community, bagger community, bihari community, hizra community but we never think about any urban community situated beside our own area and this thought makes us interested to do the research on an uncommon community like (bakarkhani maker) who are making “Bakorkhani”. The unique and interesting thing about the community is though historically it is the community based on their profession. And this way our initial interest becomes and we selected this community. We selected nimtoli because the majority “bakarkhani maker” live there, and work place is nazimuddin road.
Background information The history of Dhaka begins with the existence of urbanised settlements in the area that is now Dhaka dating from the 7th century CE. The city area was ruled by the Buddhist kingdom of Kamarupa before passing to the control of the Sena dynasty in the 9th century CE.[2] After the Sena dynasty, Dhaka was successively ruled by the Turkish and Afghan governors descending from the Delhi Sultanate before the arrival of the Mughals in 1608. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Dhaka
From Mughals Bakorkhani maker’s came in old dhaka.than gradually bakorkhani maker increase.
Bakarkhani the traditional food/snack of the people of oldDhakawas so famous for its quality and taste that there wasgreat demand of it in the Royal court of theMughal Empirein Delhi.Muslims of TurkicandAfghanorigin were first to arrive inIndiaand brought with them ‘tandoor ’ and ‘naan’ to the local culinary. Mughal’s arrival in 16th century introduced ‘shirmal’ a kind of soft bread.from that period this Bakarkhani maker community estabsished.
Even now, bakarkhani is mainly baked in Old Dhaka. From there it is distributed in different shops in different parts of the city. Most of the Bakarkhaniwalas belong from the family of Bakarkhaniwalas, meaning that their father was also a Bakarkhaniwala. http://rrasheeka.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/bakarkhaniwalas-bread-makers/
Questionnaire:
Now simply look at the list of question that we have made for the people of old Dhaka city’s “Bakarkhani Community” which actually been focused to find out their life style, their profession, believes, way of sharing common values and pattern of living.
1. How you involved with this profession? 2. What are the problems that you are facing in your community? 3. Who lead your community? 4. If you have faced any problems (financial & health) how could you solve it? 5. Do you want to carry this profession? 6. Do you want to join another profession? If no, why? 7. What is the strength of your community? 8. Does your community undertake same profession of “Bakarkhani making”? 9. What is the weakness of your community?
Finding
This research is made for accomplishing our course Introduction to community development .in our assingment we basically highlighted how “Bakar Khani maker Community” has been developed. This research gives us some practical knowledge about “Bakar Khani maker Community” and their life as a part of our academic program. It is actually gives us an opportunity for enhancing our capabilities. We had tried to focus on our practical knowledge regarding research. As a task of our research we have went to different people with some question of Bakarkhani community.
We talked different people with our question in Nimtoli and Nazim Uddin road . As the researchers we have faced many problems to carry out the study. The limitations are like the participatory approach taken in an urban area so people of different occupations are very busy all-time.the people are very helpful in the study area but they have their own opinion which conflict with others and makes us confused about the research conclusion.sometime correct information was not available from them. Though we have survey with 4 people for our research and here in the findings we have given 3 different case studies taken from the subject of the area.
His name is Shah Alam. He is a Bakar Khani roti maker. He is from Bramman Braia. He has been involved with this community since 1993 through his brother in law. He has two sons and one daughter. His elder son is currently involved with the same profession. His younger son and his daughter are use to go to school. Younger son is studying in 8th standards and daughter 6th standards. He wants that after completed education his younger son will also involve with this profession. He believes that education must require developing his business. His elder sons also completed his higher secondary and then join his business. The return of this business is not good so that he could not run his family well as like as he want but does not want to move others business because he love this business and he do not knew other works. By the following one of our question he answered that this is very difficult for me to move other business because establishing my current business is much easier than stating new business because I knew my business’s lacking and limitations actually where should I developed this is why he want to stay with this business lifelong.
Jibon Mia is a Bakar Khani roti maker. He is from Hobigong. He has been involved with this community since 1997 through his relatives. He is doing this business for 15 years long. By following our questions he answered as he told that he want to leave this profession and switch move to cloth business because during this business he have faced many problems like he could not get enough return to support his family, people do not paid enough, he could not get proper rest because he have to attend at work early morning and leave at late night. He could not get proper health care and others facilities such as loan facilities from any NGO or bank this is why he want to switch move to other business. Currently he lives in near Nimtoly Bosti.
Rinque is a businessman involved in chemical business in Nimtoli.5 year back he was also a Bakar Khani roti maker .His father was a Bakar Khani roti maker,also his grandfather was a Bakar Khani roti maker.He leave the profession because for their lively hood they need a lot of money which they couldn’t earn from makeing Bakar Khani roti.he is doing chemical business beacuse it is more profitable than from makeing Bakar Khani roti .he said that his business is riski but for more money he has to take risk.he solve his financial problem from his “Mohajon”
Conclusion
Community development, often linked with Community Work or Community Planning, is often formally conducted by non-government organisations (NGOs) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community, but so far we know that NGO also never condected this community “from Bakar Khani roti maker’s own speach’. As we look into the history of this area, changes have been occurring from time to time and it is continuing to change. But the unfortunate part is the loss of such a profession which could have been a significant historical asset for the generations to follow. Also, unfriendly changes such as Congested development is not a good sign for such a densely populated area. The achievements of the locals are also significant throughout the time..
