Navina Lamba
India has hundreds of weaver communities such as the Julaha, Ansari and the Kashmiri Kani weavers who have kept the weaving traditions alive for centuries. Here, we look at some of the dedicated weaver communities of India, whose lives are intertwined in the very patterns they create. (Photo…
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People and Practices: An Outline
This article is based on a study of the textile practices of the ‘Dimasa Kachari’, a sub group of the ‘Greater Kachari’ clan, who belong to the Indo-Mongoloid group of peoples. Their main settlements are in Dima Hasao, Karbi Anglong, Nowgong and Cachar districts of…
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Identity
The Dimasa Kachari tribe in Cachar District of Assam is a sub-group of the Dimasa community spread across Assam and Nagaland. According to Bathari (2014:13), ethnically the Dimasas are known to be part of the Bodo group, but in the history of Assam they are mostly referred to as Kachari.…
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Allen, B.C. 1905. Assam District Gazetteers: Cachar. Calcutta: The Baptist Mission Press.
Bardalai, B.N. 1988. Dimasa Kacharis of Assam. Guwahati:Tribal Research Institute, Assam.
Barman, Biswayoti. 2013. Dimasa Vir Kingbadanti Purush Sambhudhan Phonglo: Uttar Purbanchaler Ekti Anyatama Jagoron…
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A lot can be learnt from the socio-cultural aspects of a community through the food, language and clothing patterns. Clothing and textiles have been important in human history and reflect the materials available to a civilization as well as the technologies that had been mastered. The…
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