{"id":27712,"date":"2026-05-14T11:30:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27712"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:59:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:29:26","slug":"thadou-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/thadou-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Thadou Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Thadou Tribe Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three Thadou Tribe Church Leaders were shot dead and several others injured after unidentified armed men ambushed their vehicles in Manipur&#8217;s Kangpokpi district recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Thadou Tribe<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are an <\/span><b>indigenous people <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">residing <\/span><b>primarily <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the State of <\/span><b>Manipur <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in India, as well as in the surrounding regions encompassing parts of<\/span><b> other Northeastern Indian States<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>neighbouring Myanmar.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>In Manipur,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> they primarily live in the <\/span><b>hill country adjacent to the Imphal Valley.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Thadous are the second-largest tribe in Manipur, preceded only by the Meiteis, or Manipuris.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the 2011 census, the total Thadou population in Manipur was 190,595.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Thadou <\/span><b>share many cultural affinities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with the many other <\/span><b>tribal groups who live near them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thadous share a <\/span><b>common culture with all the Chin-<a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/who-are-kukis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kuki<\/a>-Mizo community.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Language<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The Thadou language belongs to the <\/span><b>Tibeto-Burman family <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the Sino-Tibetan languages.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thadou <\/span><b>settlements <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are <\/span><b>located in forests<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Sites on the tops of ridges or just below ridges are preferred.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Villages <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are <\/span><b>not arranged according to an established urban plan,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and there is no marking of the perimeter of a village.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><b> village chief\u2019s house <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is usually the <\/span><b>largest dwelling within the village.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Outside it, there is a platform upon which men gather to discuss matters of importance and to mediate disputes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Economy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They practice <\/span><b>subsistence activities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> including <\/span><b>animal domestication, cultivation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, hunting, and fishing.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Jhum (slash-and-burn) agriculture<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is predominant.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Religious Beliefs: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Thadou tribe traditionally practiced an animistic religion centered on nature spirits and a supreme god, Pathen, but <\/span><b>today, almost all Thadou people are Christians.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Festival<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The <\/span><b>Hun-Thadou <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cultural festival is an annual celebration of this community, which is celebrated at the arrival of the New Year.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><strong>:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/manipur-violence-3-church-leaders-shot-dead-in-manipurs-kangpokpi-11488457\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>NDTV<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thadou Tribe are an indigenous people residing primarily in the State of Manipur in India, as well as in the surrounding regions encompassing parts of other Northeastern Indian States and neighbouring Myanmar. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":81088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4556],"class_list":{"0":"post-27712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-thadou-tribe","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103409,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27712\/revisions\/103409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}