CONTENTS

SECTION I PAGE

[Characteristics, Physical and Moral; Origin, Distribution and Historic Summary, etc.] 1

SECTION II

[Social and Domestic Life] 11

SECTION III

[Laws and Customs] 24

SECTION IV

[Religion] 33

SECTION V

[Folk-lore, Traditions and Superstitions] 54

SECTION VI

[Outline Grammar, Etc.] 71

Appendix I. [Tribes Closely Allied to Kacháris] 81

Appendix II. [Specimens of the Bodo Language] 97