Bangladeshis in the Maldives
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| Est. 80,000 immigrants of Bengali origin with one-third having no valid documents [1] | |
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| Malé | |
| Languages | |
| English, Bengali, Maldivian | |
| Religion | |
| Islam |
Bangladeshis in the Maldives are a part of the
The 14th-century Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta identified Sultan Salahuddin Salih as a Bengali and credited him for the establishment of a new dynasty in the Maldives including his son Omar I and a granddaughter, Khadijah.[2][3] Other records have also mentioned a granddaughter of Alauddin Husain Shah being a queen in the Maldives too.[4]
According to the Maldivian foreign ministry some 80,000 Bangladeshi are now (2021) working in the Maldives, a nation of only around 400,000 people, with one-third having no valid documents or registration [1] This is a major portion among all the foreign workers in the Maldives.
References
- ^ a b Ibraheem, Imon (9 February 2021), "Maldives to recruit workers from Bangladesh", Dhaka Tribune, retrieved 28 May 2021,
The president of the Maldives has already declared that all the workers --- including foreigners, will get free vaccination in his country --- "We'll send some nurses to help carry out vaccination in the Maldives particularly for the large Bangladeshi community staying there," he said---Some 80,000 Bangladeshi expatriates are currently working in the Maldives.
- ^ Ibn Battuta (1953). "The Maldive Islands (Dhibat-ul-Mahal)". In Husain, Syed Mahdi (ed.). The Rehla of Ibn Battuta. Baroda Oriental Institute. p. 204.
- ^ Kalus, Ludvik; Claude, Guillot (2005). "Inscriptions islamiques en arabe de l'archipel des Maldives" [Islamic inscriptions in Arabic from the Maldives archipelago]. Archipel (in French). 70. Paris, France: 25.
- ISBN 9789380607207.
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