Thadou people

Thadou people

Thadou man and woman in traditional dress
Total population
229,000–313,000 in India[1]
Regions with significant populations
India, Myanmar and Bangladesh	Manipur, Nagaland, Assam, Mizoram, Tripura
Languages
Thadou
Religion
Predominantly Protestantism (Baptist) and Catholicism; very small minority Judaism (Bnei Menashe)
Related ethnic groups
Zo people  · Chin  · Kuki  · Mara  · Bnei Menashe, Ranglong  · Mizo

Thadou people, also called Thadou Kukis, are the Thadou language-speaking Kuki people inhabiting Northeast India, Burma, Bangladesh. "Thadou" is also the name of a particular clan among the Thadou Kukis. Other clans include Haokip, Kipgen, Doungel, Hangshing, Mangvung etc.^[2][3][4]

Distribution

According to the 2011 census of India, there are 229,340 Thadou language-speakers in the country. The vast majority of them (97.6%) are in the state of Manipur.^[5] Within Manipur, they make up the largest single tribe, forming about 19% of all its Scheduled Tribes.^[6] There are also significant numbers of Thadou-speakers in Meghalaya and Assam.^[5]

In addition, many Thadou language-speakers are also believed to list their language as "Kuki" in the census.^[7] The 2011 census lists 83,968 "Kuki" language-speakers, who are mostly distributed in the states of Nagaland, Manipur and Assam.^[8]

References

1. Census of India, Language (2018), pp. 40, 48.
2. Shaw, William (1929), Notes on the Thadou Kukis, Government of Assam – via archive.org
3. Seilen Haokip, What Price, Twenty Years of Peace (2012), p. 95.
4. Ngamkhohao Haokip, Politics of Tribe Identity (2012).
5. Census of India, Language (2018), p. 48.
6. Michaud, Jean; Swain, Margaret Byrne; Barkataki-Ruscheweyh, Meenaxi (2016), Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif (2nd ed.), Rowman & Littlefield, p. 244, ISBN 9781442272798
7. Ngamkhohao Haokip, Politics of Tribe Identity (2012), pp. 67–68.
8. Census of India, Language (2018), p. 40.

Bibliography

• Language: India, States and Union Territories (Table C-16) (PDF), Registrar General of India, 2018
• Haokip, Seilen (2012), "What Price, Twenty Years of Peace in Mizoram (1986–2006): A Kuki Perspective", in Thongkholal Haokip (ed.), The Kukis of Northeast India: Politics and Culture, Bookwell, pp. 89–, ISBN 9789380574448
• Haokip, Ngamkhohao (2012), "Politics of Tribe Identity with reference to the Kukis", Journal of North East India Studies, 2 (2): 64–73 – via academia.edu
• Lieut. R. Stewart in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (1857). entitled "A slight notice of the Grammar of Thadou or New Kookie language."

External links

• www.ethnologue.com/language/tcz
• The Thadous at the Wayback Machine (archived December 2, 2021)
• thadoubaptistassociation.org/en/home