Tools and Instruments, History, Traditional Practices
Summary
Traditionally, there used to be only one or two ring-wells for the entire village. But later it became very common to be constructed in almost every household. With modernization, nowadays, it has been replaced by tube-wells and electronic pump machines.
Tools and Instruments, History, Traditional Practices
Summary
Wooden-mud-plastered house is very common among the Bodo community. The walls are made of bamboo and then plastered with mud. Some people may whitewash the walls but many don't. The roofs may be either thatched or tin, but thatched roofs are hardly seen.
बड' खुगालाइसि 'The Bodo' - A mouthpiece of the Bodo Sahitya Sabha (BSS), i.e., Bodo Literary Society. It is an important mouthpiece annually published by the BSS which covers different genres.
Gurudev Kalicharan Brahma was a social reformer, educationist and a Spiritual Leader in the Bodo Society. He was born on 5 october, 1862 in a very remote and forest village Khajigami, Porbotjora in Dhubri District of Assam.
A Bodo traditional homestead used to be decorated with the plantation of a sacred Sijou tree (hedge euphorbia) for worship of the Almighty God "Bwrai Bathou". Most houses were made of bamboo with thatched roof and mud plaster. It has changed drastically.
