DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2021.v09i09.008

Pages: 437-441

The natural resources remain crucial to survival of the economically marginalised population of the Sundarbans. Survival depends much on their affordability to negotiate with nature for access to natural resources, locally available. This paper aims to unfold the undying myth surrounding the divine role of ‘Bonbibi’, the local deity, in ensuring protection of the weak against the wrath of nature. The two dominant religious communities of the Sundarbans, the Hindu and the Muslim, worship ‘Bonbibi’ with the common belief that ‘Bonbibi’ would ensure living and livelihood vis-a-vis the hostile nature. Identical need of survival integrates the two religious communities.