The Tiwas are one of the ethnic tribes in North-East. The Tiwas belongs to great Bodo tribes of Assam into which tribes like Bodo Kachari, Chutia, Deori, Rabha, Mech, Tippara or Tifre, Garo, Dimasa, Koch and Moran etc. are also included. They are physically medium statured, strongly built and generally white complexioned people which are the characteristic features of Mongloids. Tiwa language belongs to Tibeto-Burman language family of Bodo, branch of Bodo –Naga division. At present, the Tiwas are settled both in the plains and hills of Assam. Therefore Tiwa people can be divided into two groups Hill Tiwas and plain Tiwas. Most of the Tiwas are settled in the Nogaon, Morigaon, Autonomous Hill district of Karbi-Anglong and Ribohi district of Meghalaya. In the historical past, the Tiwas had ruled in central Assam. They had twelve small kingdoms, among them the Gobha kingdom was the famous and most powerful one.