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The Kuki people, or Kuki-Zo people, [2] are an ethnic group in the Northeastern Indian states of Manipur, Nagaland, Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram, [3] as well as the neighbouring countries of Bangladesh and Myanmar. [4]
Kuki people: Kuki people are an ethnic group primarily residing in the northeastern states of India—notably Manipur, Nagaland, Mizoram, Assam, and Tripura—as well as in Myanmar and parts of Bangladesh. They are part of the larger Kuki-Chin-Mizo family, sharing linguistic and cultural similarities with related groups.
Zou cultural troupe in full traditional attire. The early history of the Zou people is lost in myths and legends; they claim an origin somewhere in the north, [1] and some claim that they are originally the same as the Paite and were only separated at the end of the British Raj. [1]
Christianity in Manipur can traced back to an Anglican named William Pettigrew, [6] who lived in India when Surchandra Singh was the maharaja of Manipur. Pettigrew, who was born in Edinburgh and educated in London , applied to work with the Arthington Aborigines Mission in India and travelled to Bengal in 1890.
Manipur acts as India's "Gateway to the East" through Moreh and Tamu towns, the land route for trade between India and Burma and other countries in Southeast Asia, East Asia, Siberia, the Arctic, Micronesia and Polynesia. Manipur has the highest number of handicraft units and the highest number of craftspersons in the northeastern region of India.
Go, Khup Za (2008), Zo Chronicles: A Documentary Study of History and Culture of the Kuki-Chin-Lushai Tribe, Mittal Publications, ISBN 9788183242103; Haokip, Rebecca C. (2007). "The Kuki-Paite Conflict in the Churachandpur District of Manipur". In Lazar Jeyaseelan (ed.). Conflict Mapping and Peace Processes in North East India (PDF).
Within Manipur, they make up the largest single tribe, forming about 19% of all its Scheduled Tribes. [6] There are also significant numbers of Thadou-speakers in Meghalaya and Assam. [5] In addition, many Thadou language-speakers are also believed to list their language as "Kuki" in the census. [7]
The Mate people are one of the Kuki tribes [1] [2] of Manipur, India.The Mates – a name, in its literal sense, connotes front beaters and consequently, in the broadest sense as a designation, implies a migratory people – are a little-known tribal community of Manipur, India, whose socio-cultural identity as a distinct tribe was only recently recognised by the Union Government of India and ...