{"id":250809,"date":"2023-07-05T19:05:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T13:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=250809"},"modified":"2023-07-05T19:05:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T13:35:28","slug":"zo-peoples-of-manipur-and-mizoram-ethnicity-religion-a-shared-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/zo-peoples-of-manipur-and-mizoram-ethnicity-religion-a-shared-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Zo peoples of Manipur and Mizoram: ethnicity, religion, a shared history."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b>T<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cEthnicity, religion, a shared history: ties that bind the Zo peoples of Manipur &amp; Mizoram\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> Indian Express <\/b>on<b> 5th July 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mizoram\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zoram People\u2019s Movement (ZPM) has called for a reunification of the Zo people in view of the continuing ethnic violence between the dominant Meiteis and the Kuki-Zomi tribes in Manipur.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Who are Zo people?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zo people<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are an ethnic group which inhabit areas of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Myanmar<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chittagong<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> hill tracts of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bangladesh<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chin Hills or Indo-Chin hill ranges in northwestern Myanmar is the home to a large number of tribes that come under the Zo umbrella.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zo group includes <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">many sub-tribes and clans such as the Chin, <\/span><b>Kuki, Mizo,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Lushei, Zomi, Paitei, Hmar, Ralte, Pawi, Lai, Mara, Gangte, Thadou, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These tribes are believed to have migrated from China through Tibet to settle in Myanmar, and speak a group of Tibeto-Burman languages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Constant feuds among the tribal clans and their kings (chieftains) drove many of the clans westward to modern-day Mizoram and parts of Manipur in the 17th century.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They settled in new villages but even so remained socially and emotionally connected with the Chin tribes of Myanmar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apart from ethnicity\u2014 the tribes are also connected together by Christianity<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cEthnicity, religion, a shared history: ties that bind the Zo peoples of Manipur &amp; Mizoram\u201d published in Indian Express on 5th July 2023. What is the News? Mizoram\u2019s Zoram People\u2019s Movement (ZPM) has called for a reunification of the Zo people in view of the continuing ethnic&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/zo-peoples-of-manipur-and-mizoram-ethnicity-religion-a-shared-history\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zo peoples of Manipur and Mizoram: ethnicity, religion, a shared history.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11212,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-250809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":6,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698451045},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}