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In 1959, Mizo Hills was devastated by a great famine known in Mizo history as 'Mautam Famine'. [33] The cause of the famine was attributed to the flowering of bamboos which resulted in a boom in the rat population. It caused mass destruction of food stores and crops. A number of people died of starvation.
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]
It is commonly believed that Mizoram and the Mizo people lacked a writing system before the arrival of the British, though this claim is only partially accurate. Mizo folklore recounts a tale of a lost script once written on parchment. According to the legend, the parchment was consumed by a mad hound, leaving the Mizo people without a script ...
Sakhua (lit. "diety divine force"), also known as Mizo religion, [3] Lushai animism [4] 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. [5] As of the 2001 census, 1,367 people in Mizoram continued to practice this ...
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]
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. [159] The first bill passed by the Mizo Union was the Lushai Hills (Chieftain Abolition) Act, 1952.
The Mizo District, formerly called Lushai Hills District, was an autonomous district of the Indian state of Assam from 1947 till 1972 until it was granted the status of a Union Territory. This region was a significant part of Mizo history as it formally abolished the Mizo chieftainship system in 1952.
Edwin Rowlands (15 March 1867 – 6 August 1939) was a Welsh Christian missionary in northeast India and Burma.He was a professional teacher, singer, composer, poet, translator and literary figure among the Mizo people.