Chin-Kuki-Zo people are not migrants

By: Dr. L Lam Khan Piang

The Zo people are identified with various names such as Kuki, Chin, Shendu, Khongsai, etc. by the anthropologists, ethnographers and colonial administrators.

However, some of them mention that Zo is the name by which they call themselves. So it is imperative to employ the name Zo, as it has cultural implication and a tinge of primordial element, and to clear the confusion due to the various different names given by their neighbors from whom the colonial ethnographers and administrators picked up.

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