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082			_a307.7 VUM
100			_aVumson
245		0	_aZo history : with an introduction to Zo culture, economy, religion and their status as an ethnic minority in India,Burma and Bangladesh
260			_aMijoram
260			_bThe Author
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520			_aThis book contains the most comprehensive analysis of the people mostly known as Chin, Khyeng, Kuki, Lushai, and Plains Chin. It analyses the effect of imposing several names to these people. The author, Dr. Vumson chooses "Zo" as the common name because most of them call themselves by this name. The readers will find how the Zo people migrated from Western China -Tibet to the valley of the Chindwin and Irrawaddy and then to the Kale-Kabaw-Myittha Valleys and why they migrated to the rugged hill areas they occupy now. The proud and brave Zo people were colonialized, though they resisted with all their might. Then Japan invaded their country, exposing them to modern industrial warfare and dislocating their social and political behaviour. When the colonial rule ended they were divided into three countries hopelessly outnumbered by Indians and Burmans. The book analyses how they struggle to survive and retain their distinctive identity. It is most interesting to see how the same people develop themselves in two forms of societies. one under socialism and the other under free enterprise.
650			_2Zo culture
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