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Wednesday, 22 April 2015

Reasons Why I Want Bodoland


Let’s review the history of Bodo-Kacharis, History reveals that we Bodos(Bodo is derived from 'Bod' which means 'Tibet'), known as Kiratas, Asuras, Danavas and Mlecchhas in the ancient period of time, were the earliest inhabitants of the Northeastern region of India. Our ancestors migrated to the north-eastern part of India at about 5000 BC in search of greener pasture and better living from central Asia such as China, Mongolia, Tibet and Siberia. Writing about Bodos Endle remarked "in feature and general appearance they approximate very closely to Mongolian type; and this would seem to point to Tibet and China as the original home of the race". With the passage of time and situation, our ancestors scattered in different parts of the region and acquired different tribe names.  In the Brahmaputra Valley we are known as Boros, in Tripura as Tripuris, in north Cachar as Dimasas and so on.

Bodo-Kacharis were first classified by S. Endle as the Kacharis. Here, Bodo is derived from