{"id":27712,"date":"2026-01-04T11:30:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27712"},"modified":"2026-01-05T16:48:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T11:18:03","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;\">The public broadcaster Prasar Bharati recently asked the programme head of All India Radio (AIR) in Manipur&#8217;s capital, Imphal, for inputs on recruiting staff for resuming live broadcasts in the Thadou tribe&#8217;s language and other major dialects of the border state.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>About Thadou Tribe<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are an indigenous people who live in the <\/span><b>hill country adjacent<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the <\/span><b>Imphal Valley in Manipur.<\/b><\/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 Thadous are the <\/span><b>second largest tribe in Manipur,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> preceded only by the Meiteis, or Manipuris.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are also found in <\/span><b>smaller numbers in Nagaland, Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram, and Delhi.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Language<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: They <\/span><b>speak Chin and Thado,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which belong to the <\/span><b>Tibeto-Burman family of the Sino-Tibetan languages.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thadous <\/span><b>share a common culture with<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> all the <\/span><b>Chin-Kuki-Mizo community.\u00a0<\/b><\/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>\n<ul>\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 <\/span><b>no marking of the perimeter <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">within the village.\u00a0<\/span><\/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<\/ul>\n<\/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, hunting, and fishing.\u00a0<\/b><\/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<\/span><b> traditionally practiced<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> an <\/span><b>animistic religion c<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">entered on nature spirits and a <\/span><b>supreme god, Pathen,<\/b> <b>but today, almost all Thadou people are Christians.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><\/b><b>Festival<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The <\/span><b>Hun-Thadou cultural festival<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/radio-signals-peace-in-manipur-as-thadou-tribe-seeks-to-resume-live-broadcast-10100950\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NDTV<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thadou Tribe are an indigenous people who live in the hill country adjacent to the Imphal Valley in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. <\/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":[21,4556,22,23],"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-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-thadou-tribe","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"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":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27712\/revisions"}],"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}]}}