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Kocha Rabha Traditional Dress by Children of Jajong SHG

 


                 

Welcome to rabha.org This website was built by the Rabha Baptist  Convention. You will really enjoy by going through our website. Our site is available in English and Rabha. You can easily navigate all contents. This is the best website to find more detail about the Rabha tribal group and thier language.

Rabha (also Rava) is a Scheduled Tribe community of the Indian states of Assam, Meghalaya and West Bengal. The language or dialect spoken by the Rabha people is also of the same name. In Assam, the Rabhas live mostly in Dhubri, Kokrajhar, Goalpara, [Kamrup Rural district| Kamrup] and North Lakhimpur districts. In Meghalaya, Rabhas are mostly found in Garo Hills districts. In West Bengal, Rabha people mainly live in Alipurduar district and Cooch Behar district. Moreover, almost, 70 per cent of them live in Jalpaiguri district. The whole area of Eastern and Western Dooars, may be termed as the cradle land of the Rabhas. The Rabhas refer to themselves as Koch and assert a connection to the historical Koch Kingdom. Read more...