Political Consciousness Among the Bodos of Assam

The political assertion of the Bodos the largest plains tribe of Assam is an important part of the post-colonial political development in Assam and has its significant impact on socio-political history. Therefore as a motivating factor of this assertion the work is done on the political consciousness as one’s political state of mind or a person’s awareness of politics which has a link to understand one’s true position in history. Hence the work comprises this sense of political consciousness and its theoretical interpretation which can clearly be understood with the concept of “Nationalism”. Though the sense of nationality was emerged with the greater Assamese nationality but due to Assamiya hegemony the sense of sub-nationality was emerged among smaller communities like the Bodos. The work also comprises generic details of the Bodos through historical analysis. Moreover the study has focused on the nature aims and objectives of the political and non-political organizations of the Bodos and deals with the question of political consciousness empirically is based primarily on analysis and interpretation of field survey data from BTAD region.