timesofbodoland

Introduction: The Bodo or Boro belongs to the Mongoloid stock of the Indo-Tibetans and linguistically they belong to the branch of the Tibeto-Barman family of language. They constitute a very important section of the different ethnic and races people settling in Assam with their distinct cultural, social and linguistic traits. They are the largest ethnic tribal people of Assam with 12,28,450 population according to 1961 census. The Bodo women are not only the mistress of the House but also the expert spinner, weavers and handloom embroidery. They weave various kinds of clothes like— Endi Si, Dokhona, Zwmgra, Aronai, Gamsa, Alon, etc. They also know the art of dying of various colors. They have certain fondness of color costume. They make beautiful handloom embroidery in their various clothes and costume. Some of the embroidery is like design of dove eye, various flowers, hill designs, etc. In present days the Boro clothes are competent enough with various cloth...

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 ...