Koci of Cooch-Behar are very ancient people, are Meluhha, creators of Indus Script cipher. The founder of Cooch-Behar is a Karnataka king Maharaja Nripendra Narayan who spoke karṇātakabhāṣe,. i.e. Kannada language. káścid ʻ some one, anyone ʼ RV., m.pl. kḗcid, n.
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According to historian Kanaklal Barua, the term Koch is of aboriginal origin and is used to refer to an ethnic group from Kamata kingdom. Koches are a trans-border community, like the Garos and the Khasis. They live in separate countries which were carved out of their ancestral lands.On the other hand, the term Rajbanshi, according to A. C. Choudhury is supposedly derived from Aryan or Dravidian word Rajvamsi meaning "Kshatriya or people belong to royal race or descendants of the king". Swarna Lata Baruah indicates that the word 'Rajvamsi' refers to a distinct Dravidian community.
The Koch-Rajbongshi tribe were ethnically and culturally related to the same Koch Dynasty who ruled their land and vice versa, i.e., the Koch dynasty of Assam, northern Bengal, Rangpur part. Many however trace this etymological relation to the dynasties prior to that of the Koches.In Assam the Koches are officially recognized by the Government of Assam as 'Koch-Rajbongshi', in West Bengal they are known as 'Rajbongshi', 'Rajbanshi','Poliya' and 'Koch', in Nepal they are known as 'Rajbanshi' and 'Koch'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajbongshi_people
The Rajbongshis were traditionally agriculturalists, but due to their numerical dominance in North Bengal there were significant occupational differences among them. Most were agricultural labourers (halua) or sharecroppers (adhiar). These often worked for landed cultivators, called dar-chukanidars. Above them were the chukandiars and jotedars, and at the top were the zamindars. Some Rajbongshis were zamindars or jotedars. (Barman, Rup Kumar. "A new Look on the transition of Caste identity into Cultural identity of the Rajbanshis of Northern Bengal and Lower Assam" (PDF). The Mirror: 56–70.)
See: Hodgson, B. H. (1847). Essay the first; On the Kocch, Bódo and Dhimál tribes, in three parts. Calcutta.
káścid ʻ some one, anyone ʼ RV., m.pl. kḗcid, n.
Koch male and female 1872
The name Cooch Behar is derived from the name of the Koch or Rajbongshi tribes.(Pal, Dr. Nripendra Nath (2000). Itikathai Cooch Behar (A brief history of Cooch Behar). Kolkata: Anima Prakashani. pp. 11–12). The word behar is derived from Sanskrit: विहार vihara....During the British Raj, Cooch Behar was the seat of the princely state of Koch Bihar, ruled by the Koch Kingdom of often described as the Shiva Vansha, tracing their origin from the Koch tribe of North-eastern India...Cooch Behar formed part of the Kamarupa Kingdom of Assam from the 4th to the 12th centuries. In the 12th century, the area became a part of the Kamata Kingdom, first ruled by the Khen dynasty from their capital at Kamatapur. The Khens were an indigenous tribe, and they ruled till about 1498 CE, when they fell to Alauddin Hussain Shah, the independent Pathan Sultan of Gour. The new invaders fought with the local Bhuyan chieftains and the Ahom king Suhungmung and lost control of the region. During this time, the Koch tribe became very powerful and proclaimed itself Kamateshwar (Lord of Kamata) and established the Koch dynasty.
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