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Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (New Series) 1928

1929

Of the Thado groups in these areas the Shitlho clan is the most important and claims to be the senior clan of the descendants of Thado the ancestor of the race. [...] With the suppression of the Kuki rebellion the confisction of all guns and the punishment of several of the leading chiefs an era of much closer administration set in and the Thado have had to put up with a great deal more administrtive interference. [...] 5 populations and it would be surprising if a tribe that had migrted down the Chindwin Valley and sojourned on the west bank of that river had not absorbed Shan elements from the break up of the kingdom of Pong and Mon elements from the inhuman destruction of the Talaing kingdom of Pegu by the Burmese. [...] There are however many points of Kuki culture which are vividly suggestive of the cuture of the pagan Malays of the Indian Archipelago and the Philippines. [...] For instance the Thado custom of burying the dead in what must be a troublesome excavation leading out of a simple pit grave reappears in Sumatra and in the Philippine Islands where the Tinguian and the Mandaya follow it and also share with the Lushei and probably some tribes of Borneo the practice of eating part of the liver of a slain foe.2 In partcular all Kukis and the Thado is no excepti
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Pages
208
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-vi unknown view
Frontmatter
i-vii unknown view
Notes on the Thadou Kukis
1-104 William Shaw view
Appendices
105-175 unknown view
Backmatter
i-iii unknown view

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