Boro (बर') People

The Bodo (Bodo: बर' pronounced [boːroː]; also Boro) are an ethnolinguistic group in the Indian state of Assam. They are a part of the greater Bodo-Kachari family of ethnolinguistic groups and are spread across northeastern India and clustered strongly in Assam, along the eastern Duars. Bodos are politically active and dominant in the Kokrajhar, Baksa, Udalguri, Chirang  and Tamulpur districts of Assam, and in the Bodoland Territorial Council.
The Bodo people speak the Bodo language, a Tibeto-Burman language recognized as one of twenty-two scheduled languages in the Indian Constitution. The Bodo-Kachari, to which the Bodo people belong, are thought to have entered Assam sometime after Austroasiatic language speakers from Southeast Asia had settled the region.[5] The Bodo-Kachari were also some of the first people to rear silkworms and produce silk material and were considered to be advanced in rice cultivation in Assam during this time period.
The Bodo people are recognized as a plains tribe in the Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution. The Bodo people are concentrated within the Assamese districts of Kokrajhar, Chirang, Baksa, Udalguri, Tamulpur. Baksa, Sonitpur, Goalpara, Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, and Kokrajhar.
Language: BODO Language
Religion: Bathouism, Hindu, Christian
Total population: 1.35 Million
Related ethnic group: Kachari people.

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