Zogam
 Zo-inhabited areas | |
| Language | Kuki-Chin Languages |
|---|---|
| Location | Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh; Mizoram, India; Chin State, Myanmar[1] |
| Today part of |  India Myanmar Bangladesh
|
| Population | 1.5 million (2003)[2] |
Zogam is a separatist movement in the northwest corner of the Mainland Southeast Asia landmass, demanding a homeland of the Zo people or Zomi who lived in this area before the colonial period under British rulership.
Etymology
Zogam means Land of Zo People and is also sometimes called as Zoland or Zoram.
Culture
One Zo folksong 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]
References
- ^ Zou, David Vumlallian (3 April 2010). "A Historical Study of the 'Zo' Struggle". Economic & Political Weekly. 45 (14): 56–63.
- ^ Pau, Pum Khan (2007). "Administrative rivalries on a frontier: problem of the Chin-Lushai Hills". The Indian Historical Review. 34 (1): 187–209. doi:10.1177/037698360703400108.
- ^ 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