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According to a 2019 research, the Koch Rajbongshi community has an oral tradition of agriculture, dance, music, medical practices, song, the building of house, culture, and language. Ideally the tribe transfer the know-how from one generation to another. [59] Music forms are integral part of Koch-Rajbongshi culture.
The Koch people in this group are those who have preserved their languages, their animistic religions and follow non-Hindu customs and traditions. [6] They are related but distinguished from the empire building Koch (the Rajbongshi people) and the Hindu caste called Koch in Upper Assam which receives converts from different tribes. [12]
Koch Rajbongshi women get up early in the morning and clean the house with a broom made up of bamboo. They then give water and food to all the animals first, then they take their breakfast. When they eat, if they have a pet, they also eat along with them the same breakfast; it is a ritual and tradition.
Koch Bihar became a princely state during British rule and was absorbed after Indian independence. The third branch at Khaspur disappeared into the Kachari kingdom. Raikat is a collateral branch of the Koch dynasty that claim descent from the Sisya Singha, the brother of Biswa Singha.
Koch is a social group in the Indian state of Assam. The members of the caste are converts from different ethnic groups such as the Bodos , Garos , Tiwas , Karbis , Hajongs , Chutias etc. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Koch is one of many categories in the tribe-caste continuum in Assamese society . [ 3 ]
Koch Rajbongshi of undivided Goalpara district The Nepali Cultivators-Graziers were initially included in the list but were removed later on in 1969, so all the Nepali Cultivators-Graziers living in the Protected Tribal Belts and Blocks in Assam till 1969 were to be treated as other non-tribal non-protected class of people.
Kushan dance or kushan nritya or kushan gaan is a Rajbongshi folk drama form based on Krittivasi Ramayan. The artistes narrate the story of Ramayan in Kamtapuri or Rajbongshi language through musical verses. The Kushan folk theater is traceable to the 15th century when the Koch dynasty ruled Assam, West Bengal, and the current northern Bangladesh.
2 Essay the first; On the Kocch, Bódo and Dhimál tribes, in three parts .. (1847)