Zo Chronicles by Late Rev. Khup Za Go: A Preview
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ZO CHRONICLES
A Documentary Study of History and Culture of the Kuki-Chin-Lushai Tribe
India's Northeast is home to numerous tribal groups, many of whom have their cognate groups spread across the international borders of Bangladesh, Bhutan , China and Myanmar . Official colonial writings are befuddled by the seemingly diverse diversities of these tribal groups. Enumeration of tribes under various colonial projects tends to give various misleading nomenclatures to otherwise one tribe/people making them appear as if they were different peoples. The case of Zo people, commonly known in British colonial historiography as Kuki- Chin-Lushai, is one among them. Considered to be one of the largest tribal groups in South and Southeast Asia, the Zo people are now making concerted efforts to transcend these colonial categories to preserve, protect and uphold their unique identity and culture.
ZO CHRONICLES
A Documentary Study of History and Culture of the Kuki-Chin-Lushai Tribe
India's Northeast is home to numerous tribal groups, many of whom have their cognate groups spread across the international borders of Bangladesh, Bhutan , China and Myanmar . Official colonial writings are befuddled by the seemingly diverse diversities of these tribal groups. Enumeration of tribes under various colonial projects tends to give various misleading nomenclatures to otherwise one tribe/people making them appear as if they were different peoples. The case of Zo people, commonly known in British colonial historiography as Kuki- Chin-Lushai, is one among them. Considered to be one of the largest tribal groups in South and Southeast Asia, the Zo people are now making concerted efforts to transcend these colonial categories to preserve, protect and uphold their unique identity and culture.
Unification movement of this kind has immense potential to question and redefine international borders across Bangladesh, India and Myanmar where they are spread.
In Zo Chronicles, the author gainfully uses his experience and scholarship to glean rare documents available from exclusive sources including the Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK. A pioneering collection of its kind, it provides invaluable information and guide to understand the sociocultural and political history of the Zo people. It reorients our understanding to the whole matrix of trans-border identity, culture and politics and begs us to explore the larger issue of protection of minority rights engendered by a 'nation without a state.'
The book will be of interest to students, scholars, researchers and practitioners of history and politics, anthropology and sociology having avowed interest in issues especially of identity, culture, autonomy, and minority rights.
These are the main contents:
1. Customary Law of the Chin Tribe - 1884
2. The Chin-Lushai Conference - January 29, 1892
3. The Chin Hills Regulation - 1896
4. Acts and Achievements of Hau Chin Khup, K.S.M., Chief of The Kam Hau Clan, Tiddim, 1927.
5. The Pau Cin Hau Movement in the Chin Hills - 1931
6. The Panglong Agreement - February 12, 1947
7. The Frontier Areas Committee of Enquiry - April 24, 1947
8. Memorandum Submitted to His Majesty’s Government, Government of India and its Constituent Assembly through the Advisory Sub-Committee by the Mizo Union - April 26, 1947
9. Proceedings of a Meeting of the Accredited Leaders, Lushai Hills held at Aijal on 14th August 1947
10. Special Division of the Chins - 1947.
11. Chin Hills Linguistic Tour - (Dec. 1954) - University Project - 1954
12. Reunification of the Chin People, 1960
13. Memorandum Submitted to the Prime Minister of India by the Mizo National Front General Headquarters, Aizawl, Mizoram - October 13, 1965
14. The Mizo Peace Accord (Memorandum of Understanding) - 1986
15. The Declaration and Agreement of the Zo Re-unification Organisation - May 19-21, 1988
16. The Proclamation of the Name Zomi - December 6, 1988
17. Memorandum to the Secretary-General of the United Nations - May 20, 1995
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