The birth of a child is often connected with some distinct observances of a society and is considered one of the most important events during the life cycle of an individual. It commemorates the life of an individual and has an indispensable relationship with religion, especially with rites and rituals, with the intervention of which the newborn is initiated along with other members of the society. It is the considered one of the urgent crises rites, and in every society there are certain pristine rules and customs associated with pregnancy and childbirth, and concepts, beliefs, etc., related to these two events vary from society to society. In this present endeavour, an attempt has been made to know about the concept of pregnancy and birth, religious taboos and restrictions related to the event, observance of the period of pollution, indigenous belief systems as well as ways of healing related to complicacy of childbirth, rites and rituals observed, impact of the modern medicare system, etc., among the Sonowal Kacharis of Assam.
