Bodo Identity Assertion And Revitalisation Of Bathou Faith: A Study On Tribal Politics, Political Configurations And New Claims.

Bathou worship is claimed to incorporate the philosophy of the Bodos. Throughout its history, the community has experienced different waves of changes in its socio-cultural landscape. There are various local site-specific ritualistic articulations within the community. Before the waves of ‘reformation’, ‘identity assertion’ and ‘revitalisation’, the variations were based on fluid everyday lived realities and exchanges. But now we see the institutionalized and standardized manifestations of them in the multiple Bathou sects followed by people. In the context of Bathou worship, the changes in the cultural landscape is based on the relationalities between trends of ‘revitalisation’, Bodo identity assertion, current political configurations and new claims.