A treatise on the colonial ethnographers, ethno-historians account on the history of the bodos of Assam

In multi lingual Assam, Bodos constitute a major section among many groups of speakers and are the earliest settlers of Assam. The Bodos moulded power at various places with capitals at places such as Pragjyotishpur, Sonitpur, Sadiya, Dimapur, Maibong, Khaspur and Koch Behar. They are found in the Brahmaputra valley, the Barak valley, North Bengal and Nepal. They constitute a significant group of the Indo-Mongoloid population of eastern India and Nepal. Many people in different places call them in various names which they have booked as Boro, Kachari, Mech, Lalung (Tiwa) and Dimasa in Assam, Garo in Meghalaya and Tiperrah in Tripura. Some sections of these tribes converted to Hinduism and speak languages other than Bodo and began to consider their status to be higher. They are known as Koch. Several historical testimonies like the historical monuments, names of rivers, place names and villages proved that at a certain point of time, Bodos were the principal group and they were the only numerous populations of entire north east India. But now they are divided in several ethnic groups. Due to the lack of written character of their language, there is the dearth of historical records except Rajmala of Tiperrah kings and some fragments of historical information found in the Buranjis of the Ahom kings. However, some section of scholars who dealt with the history of the Bodos depended on information left by colonial writers and other sources.