Darlong people
The Darlong of Tripura
The Darlong people (Darlong: Darlong hnam) are a sub-tribe of Kuki, living in the state of Tripura, Mizoram and Assam of India. Although the Darlongs of Tripura are not related with the Kuki of another state like Manipur-in terms of languages, culture and Kuki alphabetic but somehow with the Kuki of Tripura they are related so, the Govt of India recognised them as Sub- Tribes of Tripura Kukis. The Darlong call themselves as ‘hriam’ or ‘manmasi’ (hriam means ‘human’. Manmasi which literally means living person. They constitute less than one percent of the population of Tripura.
If you want to know more about Darlong, please read The Darlongs of Tripura written by Letthuama Darlong.
Origin
The Darlong tribe, like many other tribes of the Hmar-Manmasi origin believe that man originated from a certain cave called ‘Sinlung’ which literally interpreted means closed stone of Tibet-China. The Darlong tribe believe that their forefathers came out of this cave one by one, and when the sub-tribe Fatlei came out of the cave, they talked so much and made such loud noise that the guardian-god of the cave fearing that the human population had grown too large closed the cave with a stone preventing any further exit of human beings from the cave. According to another interpretation this tribe made a long halt at Darlong tlang (hill) and came to be known as Darlongs after the name of the hill. This interpretation wins greater reliability on geographical and historical grounds, because the hill still stands as a living witness as Darlong tlang (hill) in the present Mizoram.
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