Zogam
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 Zo-inhabited areas | |
| Language | Kuki-Chin-Naga Languages |
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| Location | Manipur and Mizoram, India; Chin State, Myanmar[1] |
| Today part of |  India Myanmar
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| Population | 1.5 million (2003)[2] |
Zogam (or Land of Zo People) known as (proposed) Federal Republic of Zogam,[3] Chindwin Valley, Lushai Hills,[4] Kuki Hills, lies in the northwest corner of the Mainland Southeast Asia landmass. This is the traditional ancestry homeland of the Zo people or Zomi who lived in this area before the colonial period under British rulership.[1]
Culture
[edit]One Zo folksong delineates the area of Zogam as follows:
Penlehpi leh Kangtui minthang,
A tua tong Zota kual sung chi ua;
Khang Vaimang leh tuan a pupa
Tongchiamna Kangtui minthang aw
Translation:
(The famous Penlehpi and Kangtui
Between the two is the Zomi country
The Southern King and our forefathers
Made an agreement at the famous Kangtui)
This old folk song tells of the area of the Zomi ancestral homeland, for Penlehpi is a Burmese word for the Bay of Bengal and Kangtui is identified with Tuikang (Chindwin River).[5][better source needed]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ a b Zou, David Vumlallian (3 April 2010). "A Historical Study of the 'Zo' Struggle". Economic & Political Weekly. 45 (14): 56–63.
- ^ Pau, Pum Khan (2007). "Administrative rivalries on a frontier: problem of the Chin-Lushai Hills". The Indian Historical Review. 34 (1): 187–209. doi:10.1177/037698360703400108.
- ^ "Chin Hills (Approved)" Zogam at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- ^ See Colonel T. H. Lewin, Wild Races of N.E. India (1870); Lushai Hills Gazetteer (Calcutta, 1906).
- ^ ST Hau Go, 'Our People, Our Language, and Our Culture', Rangoon University Chin Cultural and Literature Sub-Committee by the Mizo Union, Aizawl, 26 April 1947, p.8