Zogam

Proposed flag of the state of Zogam

Zogam

Land of the Zo people

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. ^[1]

Etymology

Zogam means Land of Zo People and is also sometimes known as Zoland, ^[3] Zoram, Lushai Hills. ^[4]

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)

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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). ^{[5] [ better source needed ]}

References

1. Zou, David Vumlallian (3 April 2010). "A Historical Study of the 'Zo' Struggle". Economic & Political Weekly. 45 (14): 56–63.
2. 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.
3. "Chin Hills (Approved)" Zogam at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
4. See Colonel T. H. Lewin, Wild Races of N.E. India (1870); Lushai Hills Gazetteer (Calcutta, 1906).
5. 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