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The history of Mizoram encompasses the history of Mizoram which lies in the southernmost part of northeast India. It is a conglomerate history of several ethnic groups of Chin people who migrated from Chin State of Burma .
Prior to independence, the people of the district rallied behind a "Mizo" identity and formed a political party called Mizo Union. In 1954, the Government of India accepted their demand and changed the district's name to Mizo District. [13] The first Mizo chief to give up his chiefdom and chieftainship was Khawvelthanga of Maubuang (1885–1971).
The Mizoram Assembly House in Aizawl, seat of the state legislative assembly. Politics in Mizoram, a state in Northeast India had been dominated by the Mizo National Front and the Indian National Congress. As of 2024, the Zoram People's Movement is the ruling party in the states's legislative assembly.
Mizo chieftainship refers to the system of chieftainship used by the Mizo people, which historically operated as a gerontocracy.The chieftain system persisted among the various clans and tribes from the precolonial era through to the British colonial period and Indian independence briefly.
Mizoram [a] is a landlocked state in northeastern India, with Aizawl as its capital and largest city. It shares 722-kilometre (449 mi) of international borders with Bangladesh to the west, and Myanmar to the east and south, with domestic borders with the Indian states of Assam, Manipur, and Tripura. [5]
Currently, in Mizoram, the Roman script is used to write the Mizo language using the Hunterian transliteration. Locally, it is commonly known as the "Mizo A AW B", or "Mizo Hawrawp." [23] The Mizo language can be read by 91.3% of the population of Mizoram, making the state to have the third-highest literacy rates in India. [24]
Mizo National Front (MNF); Zoram People's Movement (ZPM); People's Conference Party (PCP); Zoram Nationalist Party (ZNP); Note: Zoram People's Movement (ZPM) is a merged entity of a faction of Zoram Nationalist Party, Zoram Decentralisation Front, Zoram Reformation Front, Zoram Exodus Movement, and Mizoram People's Party.
The Government of Mizoram (Mizo: Mizoram Sawrkâr) also known as the State Government of Mizoram, or locally as State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Mizoram and its 11 districts. It consists of an executive, led by the Governor of Mizoram, a judiciary and a legislative branch.