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Volume 14:2 February 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

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Bodo Community & Religion: A Sociological Study

Chithum Basumatary


Bodo People in North-East India

The generic term, Bodo of Tibeto-Burman Languages was first applied by Hudson to a group of people of the Brahmaputra valley. The Bodos live in a scattered manner throughout the North–Eastern region of India. Linguistically, Bodo is a Tibeto-Burman language of the North and East Bengal, Assam and Burma.

The Bodos belong to the greater Mongolian stocks who are described to be the inhabitants of a country north of the Himalayas and west of China. According to Kameswar Brahma, this land is known as “Bod” which meant a “Homeland”.

In fact, Bodo is a generic term which includes a large number of the tribes settled in Assam. In our discussion, we shall proceed with the Bodo language speaking people of Assam who form a large ethnic group of Assam. According to the recent Census of 2011, the Bodo population in Assam is approximately 15,00,000 of the total state population of 3,11,69,272.

History of Migration

In several research works, the term Kirat is used to describe the groups of people including the Bodos. According to Suniti Kumar Chatterjee, the Kirat came to Assam in 2000 BC. They seem to have come from North-Western China between the head waters of the Huang-Ho and the Yangtze Kiang Rivers.

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Chithum Basumatary
Department of Sociology
Assam University
Silchar
Assam
India
chitumbasu@gmail.com

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