Bodo of Assam, The: Revisiting a Classical Study from 1950 India from eleventh-century Pagan to the

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Bodo of Assam, The: Revisiting a Classical Study from 1950 India from eleventh-century Pagan to theBy Halfdan Siiger Edited by Peter B. Andersen and Santosh K. Soren The Bodo (or Boros) are one of the indigenous tribal peoples of Assam. During colonial times they resisted Christianization and in recent decades they have been involved both in interethnic violence and separatist insurgencies. Much research has gone into understanding the Boros and their aspirations but an issue has been that earlier accounts of this once animist people are meagre and