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Mizo culture is rooted in the arts and ways of life of Mizos in India, Bangladesh and Myanmar. Mizo culture has developed in plurality with historical settlements and migrations starting from Southern China to the Shan states of Burma, the Kabaw valley and the state of Mizoram under the British and Indian administrations. [1]
Sakhua (lit. "deity divine force"), also known as Mizo religion, [80] Lushai animism [80] or Khua worship, is a traditional polytheistic ethnic faith practiced by the Mizo people prior to the widespread adoption of Christianity during the British annexation of Mizoram. [81]
The Mizo people in Myanmar, historically Burma National Lushais (Burmese: လူရှိုင်း) are Myanmar citizens with full or partial Mizo ancestry. Although various Mizo tribes have lived in Myanmar for past centuries, the first wave of Mizos migrated back to Myanmar in the mid-19th to the 20th centuries. [2]
Sakhua (lit. "deity divine force"), also known as Mizo religion, [3] Lushai animism [3] or Khua worship, is a traditional polytheistic ethnic faith practiced by the Mizo people prior to the widespread adoption of Christianity during the British annexation of Mizoram. [4] As of the 2001 census, 1,367 people in Mizoram continued to practice this ...
The Mizo union would win all three seats to the Assam assembly in the 1952 general election. The following election in the same year saw the Mizo Union win all 3 of the seats in the Assam assembly and 15 districts secured out of 18. [176] The first bill passed by the Mizo Union was the Lushai Hills (Chieftain Abolition) Act, 1952.
The emergence of a Mizo government was led by a few non-Mizo officers initially in the higher positions and roles. During 1972-1973 Mizo officers including of the IAS occupied more subsidiary roles. In late 1973 and early 1974 the students at Pachhunga University College (at the time known as Pachhunga Memorial Government School) led a protest ...
Dokhuma was a participant in the Mizo National Front and was jailed. Books such as Rinawmin contribute to a unique genre in Mizo literature known as Rambuai, which details the events of the Mizo Insurgency of 1966-1986. After the MNF uprising of 1966, Dokhuma joined the movement as the MNF block president of Tlungvel Circle.
Mizo is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken mainly in the Indian state of Mizoram, where it is the official language and lingua franca. [5] It is the mother tongue of the Mizo people and some members of the Mizo diaspora .