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Traditional Environmental Knowledge and Inherent Practices amongst the Bodo People: A Special reference to the BTC

Author(s) Mr. Kunjulal Narzary, Daithun Goyari
Country India
Abstract This paper is attempts to explore the traditional environmental knowledge, values, insights and its important practices amongst the Bodo’s. The Bodo people who speak Bodo language and belong to the Mongolian race living in states of Assam, West-Bengal, North-east India, neighbour countries like Bangladesh, Nepal, Tripura. The Bodo people are very close to nature and the environment, and they follow many traditional environmental practices in their daily life. All these practices are based traditional knowledge of nature, and it kept passing generation to the generation. The Bodo people belief nature is close relation of human life that is why they think nature is very important in life. Therefore, they respect nature such as land, water, trees and animals, on the other hand, negative side also affecting due to modernization, pollution and their changing lifestyle in their traditional practicing. Such reasons many young generations are gradually forgetting the old traditional practices. In this paper trying to know the traditional practices, importance of environmental values, cultural heritage, impact of modern technologies, and community-based conservation. This study highlights the traditional environmental knowledge and practices of the Bodo people with special reference the Bodoland Territorial Council area. In these paper, descriptive and analytical methods have been used. Interviews and discussions were done with the village head man and senior citizens.
Keywords Keywords: Bodo Traditional, natural resources, modernization, practices, insights.
Field Sociology > Philosophy / Psychology / Religion
Published In Volume 8, Issue 3, May-June 2026
Published On 2026-05-26
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i03.78862

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