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This book presents a history of Mizoram at the time of India’s independence and after. The Mizos had never been conquered before the advent of the British in 1895. The book details their colonisation by the British. It discusses the condition under which the Mizos integrated with free India—the condition that will be allowed to opt out of the Indian Union when they wished to do so. It gives an account of the subsequent declaration of independence by ...
In focus here are the Mizos -- an ethnic community, largely inhabiting the present-day Mizoram – one of the seven states of north-east India. Notwithstanding their being the sons of the Indian soil, ethno-culturally, says the volume editor, they are strikingly similar to the tribes of Southeast Asia. The origin of the Mizos, like those of many tribes in the northeastern India, remains shrouded in mystery. This book examines afresh the questions of Mizos ...