 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[2] |
 Bangladesh | 7,996[3] |
| 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.[4] The majority of the Hajongs are settled in India and are predominantly rice-farmers. They are said to have brought wet-field cultivation to the Garo Hills, where the Garo people used slash and burn method of agriculture.[5] Hajong have the status of a Scheduled Tribe in India[6] and they are the fourth largest tribal ethnicity in the Indian state of Meghalaya.[7]
- ^ "Ethnologue - Hajong". Ethnologue. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
- ^ a b "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