Showing posts with label Origin. Show all posts
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Origin of the Bodos

The Bodos are Indo Mongoloids of Tibeto-Burman origin. They have been residing in Assam even before the Ahoms.1 Bodos were once the sole inhanbitants of the upper Assam(the region on the north of Brahmaputra) - The Bodos were dominant in Assam until they came under the British rule in 1825. Immigration over the past century however has rendered them minority in their homeland 2 .  At present, Bodos mostly reside above the bank of Brahmaputra in Baksa, Chirang, Kokrajhar, and Udalguri district of Assam.

1. George, Sudhir Jacob (1994) The Bodo Movement in Assam: Unrest to Accord Asian Survey - Vol. 34, No. 10, pp. 878-892 University of California Press 
2. Minanhan,J(2002) Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: Ethnic and National Groups Around the World, Greenwood Publishing Group