INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH CULTURE SOCIETY ISSN: 2456-6683 Volume - 4, Issue - 1, Jan – 2020 Monthly, Peer-Reviewed, Refereed, Indexed Journal Scientific Journal Impact Factor: 5.245 Received on : 05/01/2020 Accepted on : 17/01/2020 Publication Date: 31/01/2020 Available online on - WWW.IJRCS.ORG Page 87 A study on the different dimensions of Bodo tribal community of Dalbari village in Barama block of Baksa district in Assam, India Saswatik Tripathy Post Graduate student in 2 years Diploma on Develop Management. B.Sc. Agriculture Rural and Tribal Development The DHAN Academy , Madurai, India Email – tsaswatik.st@gmail.com 1. INTRODUCTION: A village is a geographically distinguishable place which is habitat of some human beings who lives in groups called family are socially, culturally and economically interrelated with each other. According to the data of conscious 2011 of India, 68.84 per cent Indians are stayed in village which is around 833.1 million people live in 640,867 different villages. Among them nearly 104 million people which is 8.6 per cent of the total Indian population is belonging from the tribal community. The term “tribe”, derived from the Latin tribua, originally meant a political unit, and was later used to refer to social groups defined by the territory they occupied. Tribes are generally stayed either in forest of hilly region which is little detached from the main stream society. But there are some few tribes who lives in the plains nearer to the main stream abut still maintain their own culture, tradition and individuality. Bodo tribe is one of among them. Bodo is the one of the indigenous habitat of the north eastern India mainly in the Bramhaputra Valley of Assam. The word Bodo derived from the word Bod which means Tibet. It is identified that they are the origin of from the Indo- Mongoloid stock belonging to the Tibeto-Burman Language family. This Indo-Mongoloid group had close cultural assimilation with the Negritos, the Austro-Asiatic, the Nordic and Mediterranean races of India due to their close contact as established by history of civilization. But in spite of these the Bodos have maintained a distinctive identity The Boros prefer to call themselves as Boro or the Bodo or Borofisa. The term Boro indicates a race or a speech community speaking the Sino-Tibetan Boro language. They are one of the Indian tribes who lived in the plains according to the Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution The state of Assam is in reality divided into four more entities, viz Bengali dominated Barak Valley, Dimasa tribe dominated North Cachar Hills now known as Dima Hasao, Karbi tribe dominated Karbi Anglong and finally Bodo Kachari tribe dominated Bodoland. Bodoland is the entrance gate to the beautiful North Eastern Region of India, which was created very recently in the year 2007 by curving out some area of eight districts of Assam namely Kokrajhar, Dhubri, Bongaigaon, Barpeta, Nalbari, Kamrup, Darang and Sonitpur. It is an autonomous Administrative unit constituted under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India covering an area of 8795 Sq. Km (Provisional). Judging from the wide range of extension of their language, the Bodos appear first to have settled over the entire Brahamaputra valley and extended west into West Bengal (in Kochbehar, Rangpur and Dinajpur districts) they may have pushed into North Bihar also. The present Bodo population in the state of Assam is 52, 49,937. (Approx, figure as prepared by ABSU HQ, Kokrajhar). As the present work has a link with the ‘Bodoland Movement’ which ultimately resulted in the creation of Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), a separate homeland for the Bodos within the state of Assam in the design of District Council (under 6th Schedule of the Constitution of India). During the study of different dimension it is clear that their culture is totally different from the Assames in the state. They are very aware of their culture. They are the plain tribes and very closely living with the other cultures like Abstract: Bodo is one of the plain tribes of India, which staying with the Aryans for a long time but still can maintain their individuality and culture. There are stresses of Bodos in Indian mythological history also, they are known as the kirata. Assam is the north eastern state of India where a good population of Bodos are living through generations. Bodos don’t have different caste combinations but they have their clans among them. According to the works the clans are made. They follow the Batho religion. And speak the Bodo language which is belonging from the Sino-Tibetan language group. This study is focusing on the Bodo ecosystem in the village Dalbari by addressing different dimensions of their life viz. cultural, Social, economic, environmental and political. It was conducted through different participatory tolls, interview and closed observation through staying in the tribal house for 40 days. The key findings and cream of the study is discussed in the article. Key Words: Bodo, Tribe, Assam, India, Socio-economic.