Education of the Koch Rajbongshi in Dhubri district of Assam

Abstract

Koch Rajbongshi is an ancient tribe originally from the ancient Koch Kingdom. The 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. The homelands of this ancient tribe include West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and various North Eastern parts of India. A huge number of Rajbonshi people now live in North Bengal and West Assam, Meghalaya, Bangladesh, and Nepal. Kamatapur Liberation Organization is an armed militant outfit of Rajbonshi community and it is demanding independent Kamatapur State consisting of North Bengal and West Assam to bring back its past glory. The population of the present study comprised the household of the Koch Rajbongshi family. Information regarding the concentration of Koch Rajbongshi population in the blocks and the total number of their population in the district has been collected from the district President, AAKRSU (All Assam Koch Rajbongshi Students Union). According to their view 3,25,616 (approx.) i.e. 16.71% Koch Rajbongshi populations are there in Dhubri district of Assam.  The researcher has selected 300 families for the sample of the study from all the 3 blocks i.e. 100 families from each block. The main concern of this paper is to study the educational condition of Koch Rajbongshi in Dhubri district of Assam.