INSCRIPTION ON THE STONE AT TRIBAL MYRTARS MEMORIAL PARK | LAMKA

INSCRIPTION ON THE STONE:

“MAY OUR LAST WALK BE YOUR FIRST STEP”

AT NO POINT IN HISTORY HAVE THE ANCESTRAL TERRITORIES OF THE INDIGENOUS ZO (CHIN-KUKI-ZOMI/MIZO) AND NAGA ETHNIC TRIBES OF PRESENT-DAY MANIPUR BEEN A PART OF THE ERSTWHILE MANIPURI KINGDOM. RATHER, THE ZO AND NAGA TRIBES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN SOVEREIGN, AUTONOMOUS AND SELF-GOVERNING UNTIL THE BRITISH IMPERIALISTS AMALGAMATED THE VALLEY KINGDOM WITH THE SURROUNDING ZO AND NAGA TERRITORIES FOR PURELY ADMINISTRATIVE CONVENIENCE AND WITHOUT ANY HISTORICAL JUSTIFICATION. UNDER BRITISH INDIA, WHILE THE MANIPURI MONARCH CONTINUED TO RULE OVER HIS SUBJECTS IN THE VALLEY, THE RESPONSIBILITY OF ADMINISTERING THE TRIBES IN THE SURROUNDING HILLS, AS MAY BE NECESSARY, RESTED WITH THE BRITISH POLITICAL AGENT.

IN 1949,

Lamka Bazar area ah Gamdangmi (non-local) 2,000 vél um

Lamka Bazar area ah Gamdangmi (non-local) 2,000 vél um

Dukân lian leh mun pawimaw zosia Kawlte’n lua

- John Suantak

Manipur a ding ah ‘Second town’ ti ah minvua hial ah um, Churachandpur district sung ah Bazar leh mun pawimaw zosia chu gamdangmi (non-local) te’n a luadim mai uh hilo in, sumkawlveina dukan lian leh pawimaw ma ma te chule a luasuak phialu’i. A mau ziak in Lamka khawpi sung ah inn lua man a tam ma ma hi ti thei phial in a um hi, a ziak chu, a In lua man mai hilo in, gamdangmite’n mun pawimaw a lua theina dingu a hi phawt leh In neite kiang a deposit lakh 2/3 a kawi ngam ziak un ziagual ah mun pawimawte changkha hi in a muthei hi. Ziak a chun, gam neitu kitite a ding in mun pawimaw lua ding chu thil haksatak a suak hi. 

Nidang in Bazar area bep in um male’u, gamdangmi hung kibelap zel dungzui in, Veng sung ning tin phial in muthei in a um tau a, khawcha (village) na tiang inle muthei a hi tau. 

Zomi Students’ Federation (ZSF) GHQ in a chiata May-June, 2018 sung survey a bawlna’u a chun gamdang mi Lamka ah sumkawlvei ah hunglut lak in Bihari a tampen ua, survey bawlkim vek zawlo himaleh inkuan