A History of Assam c16.4

c16.4

The Kachāris are believed to be very closely allied to the Koches, and also, so far at least as language is concerned, to the Chutiyas, Lālungs and Morāns of the Brahmaputra valley, and to the Gāros and Tipperas of the southern hills. Having regard to their wide distribution, and to the extent of country over which Bodo languages of a very uniform type are still current, it seems not improbable that at one time the major part of Assam and North-East Bengal formed a great Bodo kingdom, and that some, at least, of the Mlechchha kings mentioned in the old copper-plate inscriptions belonged to the Kachāri or some closely allied tribe.