Zogam

Zogam (or Land of Zo People), known as Zoland,[1] Lushai Hills,[2] Kuki Hills, lies in the northwest corner of the Mainland Southeast Asia landmass. This is the traditional ancestral homeland of the Zo people or Zomi who lived in this area before the colonial period under British rulership.

Land of Zomi Zogam or Zoram
Zo Flag
ZRO/A
CNA/F KNO/KNA

Zo-inhabited areas
Language Kuki-Chin languages
National day 20 February (Zo National Day).
Location Chin State of Burma, and part of Plain Chins (lower lands), and Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh until it reaches to the Bay of Zogam Bay of Bengal, and parts of Manipur and the whole Mizoram
Today part of  India
 Myanmar
 Bangladesh
Population 5 million (2014)

Culture

One Zo folk song delineates the area of Zogam as follows:

Penlehpi leh Kangtui minthang,
A tua tong Zota kual sung chi ua;
Khang Vaimang leh tuan a pupa
Tongchiamna Kangtui minthang aw

Translation:

(The famous Penlehpi and Kangtui
Between the two is the Zomi country
The Southern King and our forefathers
Made an agreement at the famous Kangtui)

This old folk song tells of the area of the Zomi ancestral homeland, for Penlehpi is a Burmese word for the Bay of Bengal and Kangtui is identified with Tuikang (Chindwin River).[3]

Preferred book: "The Untold Story of Zomi" (T. Zokhai, 2018).

See also

Endnotes
  1. "Chin Hills (Approved)" Zogam at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  2. See Colonel T. H. Lewin, Wild Races of N.E. India (1870); Lushai Hills Gazetteer (Calcutta, 1906).
  3. ST Hau Go, 'Our People, Our Language, and Our Culture', Rangoon University Chin Cultural and Literature Sub-Committee by the Mizo Union, Aizawl, 26 April 1947, p.8

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