{"id":95106,"date":"2026-03-27T13:02:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=95106"},"modified":"2026-03-27T13:02:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:32:25","slug":"sonowal-kacharis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sonowal-kacharis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonowal Kacharis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Sonowal Kacharis Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new study has identified 39 plants used by the Sonowal Kachari community to treat ailments ranging from fever and cough to kidney stones and skin diseases.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Sonowal Kacharis<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are an <\/span><b>indigenous people <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who live in <\/span><b>northeast India.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The vast <\/span><b>majority <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the Sonwal live in <\/span><b>Assam<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. They are the<\/span><b> third-largest plain tribe in Assam <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and<\/span><b> one of the oldest <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tribes of Assam.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Smaller groups <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">live in <\/span><b>Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are recognized as a <\/span><b>Scheduled Tribe (Plains) in Assam.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are of <\/span><b>Mongoloid origin<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>linguistically<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Sonowal Kachari people belong to the <\/span><b>Tibetan language family.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>name \u2018\u2019Sonowal\u2019\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> comes from the <\/span><b>word for gold<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The<\/span><b> traditional occupation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the Sonwal was <\/span><b>panning for gold during the Ahom kingdom.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Today <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Sonowal are <\/span><b>primarily engaged in agriculture<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. They grow rice, betel nut, sweet potatoes, and cotton.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sonowal are believed to have a very <\/span><b>rich traditional knowledge of indigenous medicine.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>primary language <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the Sonowal is <\/span><b>Assamese<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><b>Many also speak Hindi <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">so they can communicate with outsiders.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Religion<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sonowal practices <\/span><b>Hinduism <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">strongly <\/span><b>influenced by folk religion.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They have <\/span><b>their own village shrines<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and generally do not visit Hindu temples.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sonowal considers <\/span><b>Shiva<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the destroyer god, to be their <\/span><b>primary deity.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Sourc<\/b><strong>e<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>:<\/strong> <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/assam-tribes-herbal-remedies-reveal-39-medicinal-plants-with-healing-potential-study\/articleshow\/129821163.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonowal Kacharis are an indigenous tribe of Assam known for traditional medicine, agriculture, and rich cultural heritage, with roots in gold panning and folk-influenced Hindu practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":95146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,6396,350],"class_list":{"0":"post-95106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-sonowal-kacharis","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-afffairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95106"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95157,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95106\/revisions\/95157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}