Zogam
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Zogam (or Chinland, the political appellation mainly used to describe the envisioned unified and separate democratic nation-state) is the name for a territory, approximately 60,000 square miles (160,000 km2) in size, in Burma, India and Bangladesh. It is the traditional home of the Zomi, who lived in this area before the colonial period under British rulership.
It does not include Asho settlements in Lower Burma and Masho settlements in the Arakan (Burma). The area extends from latitude 25° 30’ North in the Somra tracts facing Mt. Saramati, and in Nagaland across the Namtakik River and the North Cachar Hills, to about 20° 30’ North Latitude. The longitudinal extension is between 92° 10’ East and 94° 20’ east. The North-South length of the Zogam is roughly 350 miles (560 km) and East-West is generally about 120 miles (190 km) wide.
One Zomi folksong delineates the area of Zogam as follows:
- “Penlehpi leh Kangtui minthang,
- A tua tong Zouta kual sung chi ua;
- Khang Vaimang leh tuan a pupa
- Tongchiamna Kangtui minthang aw”
- (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).
[edit] Zogam part of Greater Chinland
Zogam is within the land inhabited by the Zomi of Chin State in Myanmar and further the land inhabited by the Zomi in India and Bangladesh. Chinland is the founding name for the whole Chin inhabited areas of land spread across three political and separate country/international boundaries. Lairam is another name used by the townships the Southern Chin Sate in Myanmar, Thangtlang, Hakha and Falam. Zogam (Mizogam or Mizoram), but they use Lairam (Lai-land), Maras in Western Chin state who called their land as Maraland, Zotung, Khumi, Dai people, Sengthang, Lautu, Asho Chin, Cho and other tributary tribes who too called their land according to their own dialects or languages. And all of them put together makes up a Greater Chin State and so Zogam covers about 20 to 45 percent of the whole Chin State. Therefore, Zogam is an indigenous identity of the Chin peoples together with the Kukis(Thado), Lushai(Lusei or Mizo). Chinland thus equals to all the lands inhabited by these hill tribes collectively known as Chin people, and they comprise of the Laimi, Tedimmi, Mara, Khumi, Zophei, Senthang, Lautu, Zotung, Manipur, Thado, the Zou, Simte, Paihte and other tributary tribes.
[edit] External links
- Zogam Nuam
- Zomi International Network
- History of the ZOMI ethnic group, re-unification movement, organization, land and people
- Abode of the Zo netizens, articles, discussions, forums
- News Portal from Lamka, one of the most important Zo-inhabited town in Manipur, India
- Zomi Siamsin Universities, Myanmar
- The Zomi Social Network
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