Volume : III, Issue : XII, December - 2014

Demographic Behaviour of The Deoris Of Assam

Surjya Chutia

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The North East Region of India is the abode of about 130 tribal groups having different social structure and cultural heritages. Assam is the pioneer state of the NER of India and the habitation of various tribal communities. Tribes living in the state of Assam are categorized into nine plains tribes and fourteen hill tribes and the state accounted for merely 12.42 percent tribal population as per 2001 census. The Deoris are one of the plain schedule tribes of Assam, who are likely to exhibit certain socio-cultural and demographic characteristics which are different from those of other tribes and non tribal population of Assam. As per 2001 census, the total Deori population in Assam was 41161. Ethnically Deoris are affiliated to the Indo- Mongoloid group and their ‘Deori language‘ also belongs to the Tibeto-Burman of the great family of Sino-Tibetan languages. The Deoris have four main divisions (Khel), namely- the Dibongiya, the Tengaponiya, the Borgoya and the Patorgoya. But the Patorgoya group has almost become extinct today. In this paper an attempt has been made to highlight some demographic aspects of the Deoris of Assam. The paper is mainly based on primary data collected through personal interview with the respondent sample households through an interview schedule.

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DEMOGRAPHIC BEHAVIOUR OF THE DEORIS OF ASSAM, Surjya Chutia GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : Volume-3 | Issue-12 | December-2014

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