Bodo-Kacharis (also Kacharis or Bodos) are an anthropological and a linguistic group of ethnic groups living predominantly in the Northeast Indian states of Assam, Tripura and Meghalaya, that speak Boro-Garo languages—some of who possibly have shared ancestries. Many of these peoples formed early states in the late Medieval era of Indian history (Chutia kingdom, Dimasa kingdom, Koch dynasty, Twipra kingdom) and came under varying degrees of Sanskritisation.