Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
The Chin people of Myanmar and the Kuki people of India and Bangladesh are the kindred tribes of Mizos [17] and many of the Mizo migrants in Myanmar have accepted the Chin identity. The Chin, Kuki, Mizo, and southern Naga peoples are collectively known as Zo people (Mizo: Zohnahthlak; lit. "descendants of Zo") which all speak the Mizo language [18]
Mizo people migrated to Myanmar during the 19th and the 20th centuries because of the demand and the popularity of joining the Burmese Army and other factors. By 1972, there were over 30,000 Mizos in Myanmar.
Myanmar's contemporary politics around ethnicity surround treating ethnicity as a minoritising discourse, pitting a "pan-ethnic" national identity against minority groups. Often ethnicity identities in practice are flexible- sometimes as flexible as simply changing clothes- in part due to a lack of religious or caste stratification prior to ...
Mizo is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken mainly in the Indian state of Mizoram, ... Sagaing Region and Chin State in Myanmar, and Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh ...
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]
Myanmar areas bordering Mizoram are inhabited by Chin communities who are ethnically our Mizo brethren with whom we have been having close contacts throughout these years even before India became independent. Therefore Mizoram cannot remain indifferent to their suffering today.
Zomi is a collective identity adopted by some of the Kuki-Chin language-speaking people in India and Myanmar. The term means "Zo people". The groups adopting the Zomi identity reject the conventional labels "Kuki" and "Chin", popularised during the British Raj, as colonial impositions. Even though "Zomi" was originally coined as an all ...