timesofbodoland

kNOW YOUR BODO RELIGION SIJOU TREE The Boros are one of the composite parts of the greater Assamese  society forms a major tribe of Kokrajhar district . Suniti Kr.Chatterjee  writes, " The Bodes who spread over the whole Brahmaputra valley  and North Bengal as well as East Bengal forming a solid block in  eastern India and they form one of the main bases of the present day  population of this tracts. Judging from the wide range of extension of  their language, the Bodos appear to have settled over the entire  Brahmaputra valley and extended into North Bengal."?  The Boros, also known as Bodo, isone of the major communities  of Assam belonging to the Indo-Mongoloid ethnic group of the TibetoBu r ma n la n guage - family . The generiC name of ' Bodo ' was f i rst given  by Hodgson to this group o f languages . The Mech or t he Kocharies call  themselves as Bodo or Boro . !' The neighbouring Assamese speakers  call these ...