Traditional Knowledge and Social Taboos of the Bodo on Birth

The Bodo are one of the indigenous ethnos of Assam who are supposed to have been migrated from East and South East Asian regions at different periods of time in the successive waves of movements. The ancestors of the Bodo gifted rich conventional knowledge and tradition relating to the birth. The formulated traditional methods and techniques by the forefather of the Bodo are stilled initiated over centuries based on trial and error method. The rich treasure of the traditional knowledge of the Bodo on the birth is the area of the virgin for research which to be explored more and more. Every society has own customs and traditions or totem and taboo on the birth of a child. In the society of the Bodo there is well established tradition on to the birth. The present paper dealt with the Bodo who mainly concentrated in the Brahmaputra valley.