Koch Rajbongshi is an ancient tribe originally from the ancient Koch Dynasty. The Koch Rajbongshi Tribe is referred to as Koch Rajbongshi/Rajbanshi/Rajvanshi. The word Rajbongshi means literally “Royal community”. They have a rich cultural heritage and their own language. Habitation and language The homelands of this ancient tribe include West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nepal and various North Eastern parts of India.The Great Kamatapur was parted with Bangladesh, West Bengal, Assam, Nepal, Meghalaya, Tripura, Bihar, Bhutan, Nepal. A huge number of Rajbonshi people now live in North Bengal and West Assam, Meghalaya, Bangladesh, Nepal. A large no. of political and non political organization of this community has been formed in West Bengal and Assam. Most prominent among them are, Kamatapur People’s Party, Greater Coochbehar Demanding Committee, All Koch Rajbonshi Students Union, Koch Rajbonshi Sanmilani and these groups are demanding separate Kamatapur State consisting of North Bengal and West Assam. So as to bring back its past glory. Because of migration this community can be found in various parts of India and in other parts of the world. The Rajbongshi/Rajbanshi language is spoken by 1 crore people according to a 2001 census report for Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar, Darjeeling, Malda, Murshidabad; Assam, Goalpara District, Kokrajhar District, Dhubri District, Bongaigaon District; Bihar and Purnia District, in India. The language is also spoken in Bangladesh and Nepal. Other names of the language are Kamtapuri, Rajbangsi, Rajbansi, Rajbongshi, Goalpariya and Tajpuri. The Rajbanshi language has a complete grammar Dialects The main dialects are Western Rajbanshi, Central Rajbanshi, Eastern Rajbanshi and Rajbanshi hills also known as koch language. The central dialect has majority of speakers and is quite uniform. There are publications in this language. The western dialect has more diversity. Lexical similarity is 77% to 89% between the three dialects. But the one spoken in the hills has some influence of the local tribal languages and differs quite a bit from the other three. Rajbanshi also shares 48% to 55% of its vocabulary with Hindi, and 43% to 49% with Nepali.Koch Rajbonshi Sahitya Sabha has given emphasis on bringing a unic identity of the Rajbonshi language. Religion and beliefs The Rajbongshi were primarily animists but they have has adopted Sanatana and also Christianity in course of time.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:02:57 +0000
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