Place:Tlangpi

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Tlangpi
Village
An Aerial Photography of Tlangpi 2023
An Aerial Photography of Tlangpi 2023
Official seal of Tlangpi
Seal
Motto(s): 
'Khuaṭan Lungkhat, Aanruangte In.'
Coordinates: [ ⚑ ] 22°58′39″N 93°19′36″E / 22.9775°N 93.32667°E / 22.9775; 93.32667
CountryMyanmar
StateChin State
DistrictHakha
TownshipThantlang

Tlangpi also known as Klangpi is a mountainous village of Chin people in Thantlang Township, Chin State, Myanmar.[1] It is located in the west of Chin State, 13 km away from the south of Camp Victoria, Headquarters of Chin National Front in India-Myanmar border.[2] In the 2014 Myanmar Census, the population in Tlangpi was 1,648 (females: 823 and males: 825).[3]

History

In The Chin Hills Book Volume II 1896, Carey & Tuck mentioned Tlangpi as ‘Klangpi’ that had 70 houses.[4] In contrast, in the Chin-Lushai Land Book 1893, Reid correctly spelt the village name as 'Tlangpi' that had 100 houses.[5] In 1896, the houses in ‘Klangpi’ were built with bamboo in the manner of Lushai (Mizo) style.[6] Approximately in 1850, the Lai people of Vanzang village established Tlangpi village which now constitutes one of the six villages in Vanzang Hill Tract.[7]

Until 1895, Chinland (also known as Chin State or Chin Hills) including Tlangpi was a sovereign territory with their own ruling system of chieftainship.[8] In 1872, 1888, 1889-1890 and 1895, the British invaded Chinland for colonisation.[8] After the 1895 invasion, the British declared that Chinland was a British Colony.[8] The British legislated the Chin Hills Regulation (1896) to rule Chin people in Chin Hills and Lushai Hills.[9] The British did not abolish the Chin ruling system of chieftainship.[9] Under the Chin Hills Regulation (1896), they applied the indirect rule to Chin people through existing Chin Chiefs.[9]

In 1947, Mang Ling had become the Chief of Tlangpi under Hakha Sub-division of the British Colony.[8] Tlangpi Chief was one of the 19 Chin Hills Chiefs who represented Chin people's wish to the Frontier Areas Committee of Enquiry.[8] The Committee was formed to unify the Frontier Areas and 'Ministerial Burma' with the Frontier Areas people's 'free consent' before the British conferred independence upon Burma in 1948.[10]

The bedrock mortar in Tlangpi, 2014
The bedrock mortar in Tlangpi, 2018

Tlangpi has a bedrock mortar site at its north. It is locally known as 'lungsum', literally meaning 'rock mortar'.[11] Prehistoric peoples used this type of bedrock mortars to grind foods.[12] Their use of bedrock mortars was world-wide from Americas to Asia.[12]

References

  1. ↑ Benezer, Salai (2021). "Army orders people in five villages of Htantalan Township to stay indoors" (in en). https://www.bnionline.net/en/news/army-orders-people-five-villages-htantalan-township-stay-indoors. 
  2. ↑ Hasnat, Karishma (2023-02-26). "Junta conducts multiple air strikes in Thantlang, two Chin fighters killed in fresh offensive" (in en-US). https://theprint.in/india/junta-conducts-multiple-air-strikes-in-thantlang-two-chin-fighters-killed-in-fresh-offensive/1401240/. 
  3. ↑ "The 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census, Chin State, Haka District, Thantlang Township Report". Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population. 2017. p. 8. https://themimu.info/sites/themimu.info/files/documents/TspProfiles_Census_Thantlang_2014_ENG.pdf. 
  4. ↑ Bertram S, Carey; HN, Tuck (1896). The Chin Hills: A History of the People, Our Dealings with Them, Their Customs and Manners, and a Gazetteer of Their Country. II. Rangoon: Government of Burma. pp. xcii. https://www.burmalibrary.org/docs21/chin_hills-vol.02-tu.pdf. 
  5. ↑ Reid, A Scott (1893). The Chin-Lushai Land including a Description of the Various Expeditions into the Chin-Lushai Hills and the Final Annexation of the Country. Calcutta India: Thacker, Spink and Co. pp. 143. https://ia801501.us.archive.org/17/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.33505/2015.33505.Chin-lushai-Land.pdf. 
  6. ↑ Bertram S, Carey; HN, Tuck (1896). The Chin Hills: A History of the People, Our Dealings with Them, Their Customs and Manners, and a Gazetteer of Their Country. I. Rangoon: Government of Burma. pp. 160. https://www.burmalibrary.org/docs21/chin_hills-vol.01-tu-red.pdf. 
  7. ↑ Chin, Cung Lian Hu (2018). Vaddhanaphuti, Chayan. ed. Community Networking and Remittances as Social Capital for Rural Community Development in Chin State, Myanmar. Chiang Mai: Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development. pp. 25. https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/CDSSEA07_CommunityNetworkingChinState.pdf. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Haokip, TS Letkhosei (2018-08-30) (in en). Ethnicity and Insurgency in Myanmar /Burma: A Comparative Study of the Kuki - Chin and Karen Insurgencies. Educreation Publishing. pp. 20–21. ISBN 97-8-1-5457-2271-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=cGpoDwAAQBAJ&dq=klangpi+mang+ling&pg=PA21. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Scarlis, Christine Anne. "Chin" (in en-US). https://ethnomed.org/culture/chin/. 
  10. ↑ "Frontier Areas Committee of Enquiry 1947 : report submitted to His Majesty's Government in the... - Catalogue | National Library of Australia" (in en). https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/4499183. 
  11. ↑ Hramkam, C (2024-01-10), English: Locals call this 'Lungsum', meaning 'bedrock mortar'. Nobody knows whether it is nature-made or man-made., https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tlangpi_Bedrock_Mortar_2.jpg, retrieved 2024-01-10 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Stuart, Drew (2018-11-15). "In "Bedrock Features," West Texas Prehistory Is Etched in Stone" (in en). https://www.marfapublicradio.org/show/nature-notes/2018-11-15/in-bedrock-features-west-texas-prehistory-is-etched-in-stone. 

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