Volume : V, Issue : V, May - 2016

BodoBhutia Border Trade Relations in Colonial Era

Asha Basumatary

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 Border trade is an overland trade operated by the way of exchange of certain commodities by the people living along both sides of the international border. It differs from trade carried through air, land and sea ports. Since NorthEastern states of India shares land borders with the countries of Bhutan, Tibet, China, Bangladesh, Myanmar, the Bodo tribes inhabiting the northern foothill regions of Assam and Bengal have maintained border trade relations with the Bhutia (Bhootea) tribes of Bhutan hills and the western Arunachal Pradesh hills since long time. Through the hill tribes, their trade was further extended to the Tibetans and the Chinese traders. This article thus intends to explore how Bodo tribes carried out border trade with Bhutia tribes of Bhutan during colonial times, and also to examine how far it contributed to the growth of their economy

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Asha Basumatary BodoBhutia Border Trade Relations in Colonial Era International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 5, Issue : 5 MAY 2016

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