ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF BODOLAND MOVEMENT & SOCIO- ECONOMIC CONDITION OF LEADERS IN THE MOVEMENT.
Abstract
Bodos are one of the oldest Tribes of Assam. According to the historians, the Bodos are a race of the Mongoloid group of people who are described to be the inhabitants of a north of the Himalayas and west of China. With the passage of time, they migrated to the Bullungbuthur valley (Brahmaputra valley) and lived there till the 3rd Century. The Bodos had only a few leaders and guided among them. One of them was Kalicharan Brahma. He was known as Gurudev.
Gurudev Kalicharan Brahma was not only a preacher and social reformer; he was also a great unifier of the Bodo community. Unfortunately, disunity started among the Bodos after the death of Kalicharan Brahma. This made the entire community disintegrated and the political leaders from upper caste ignored the Bodos. Thus, when the country won independence in 1947, the Bodos could not get due important and facilities despite being the largest Tribal community of the North-East India.
