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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.
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 .
With the contribution of his book Ṭawng Un Hrilhfiahna, in 1971 the government of Mizoram bestowed the title "Father of Mizo Lexicography" [1] [3] [4] [7] Dokhuma was a participant in the Mizo National Front and was jailed.
The Mizo Hmeichhe Insuihkhawm Pawl was founded in 1976 as the largest women's body in Mizoram. Their political policy tended to focus on the resentment of male-biased Mizo customary laws. The MHIP lobbied for reforms of Mizo customary laws to divorce, inheritance, and sawn-man (compensation for the mother of an illegitimate child). [6]
Mizo Union (6 April 1946 – 12 January 1974) was the first political party in Mizoram, in Northeast India. It was founded on 6 April 1946 at Aizawl as the Mizo Common People's Union. At the time of independence of India from British rule in India in 1947, the party was the only political force in the Lushai Hills (former name of Mizoram).
Location of Mizoram. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Mizoram: Mizoram – one of the states of Northeast India, with Aizawl as its capital city. The name is derived from Mi (people), Zo (Belonging to the people of Mizoram/Lushai Hills) and Ram (land), and thus Mizoram implies "land of the hill people".
Mizoram [a] is a landlocked state in northeastern India, with Aizawl as its capital and largest city. It shares 722-kilometres (449 miles) 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]