The Hajongs

The Hajong people are an ethnic minority of India. They belong to the Kachari group of tribes. The Hajongs share a lot of cultural and physical features with the Bodo, Garo and Dimasa people. They are spread out across North East India, West Bengal, and Bangladesh. The majority of the Hajongs are settled in India. They are the fourth largest ethnicity in  Meghalaya, after the Khasis, Jaintias and Garos. They are said to have brought wet-field cultivation to Garo Hills, where the Garo people used slash and burn method of agriculture. Hajong have the status of a Scheduled Tribe in India. The Hajongs belong to the Indo-Tibetan group of the main  mongoloid race. Dalton, in 1872, considered the Hajongs to be a part of the Kachari group of tribes. The Kachari group of tribes includes tribes like Bodos, Dimasas, Garos, Lalungs, Dhimals, Rabhas and Sonowals. These tribes moreover share the same pre-history, how they migrated from Tibet and parts of China to the Southern Himalayas,