{"id":30243,"date":"2025-02-20T08:43:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T03:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30243"},"modified":"2025-04-10T09:08:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T03:38:31","slug":"mising-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mising-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Mising Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Mising Tribe Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Assam\u2019s largest tribal community, the Mising tribe, celebrated the Ali Ai Ligang festival recently.<\/p>\n<h2>About Mising Tribe<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Mising people are an indigenous tribe from<strong> Northeast India<\/strong>. They are <strong>part of the Tani people<\/strong>, who <strong>speak Tibeto-Burmese languages<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They live in parts of <strong>Assam <\/strong>and <strong>Arunachal Pradesh<\/strong> in India and <strong>Tibet <\/strong>in China.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tibetans call them &#8220;Lhobhas,<\/strong>&#8221; which means &#8220;southerners&#8217; &#8216; because they live in South Tibet and areas now in Arunachal Pradesh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>They are one of the <strong>largest tribal groups in Assam.<\/strong> According to the census of India 2011, the total population of Mising is 680,424 in Assam.<\/li>\n<li>They have a <strong>life closely related to rivers, <\/strong>and therefore they can be described as the only riparian tribe of Northeast India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Life and culture<\/strong> of Mising people <strong>revolve around agriculture and fishing.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The agriculture practice of the Mising people was <strong>originally \u2018Jhum\u2019 <\/strong>or slash &amp; burn method.<\/li>\n<li>However, after settling down in the plains of Assam, they have mastered the art of wet paddy cultivation, and at present they are good settled cultivators.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Drawing their origin in Jhum cultivation, the <strong>main festival<\/strong> of the Mising people is <strong>\u2018Ali-Aye-Ligang\u2019. <\/strong>Ali means edible root, Aye means seed, and Ligang means sowing festival.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Religion<\/strong>: The Mising people practice the <strong>cult of \u2018Do-nyi \u2013 Po:lo\u2019<\/strong> which literally translates into <strong>worshiping the Sun and the Moon.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Mising Tribe FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1. <\/strong>What is the festival of Mising tribe?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> AliAye Legang is the main festival of the Mishing tribe and is celebrated in the month of February.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2.<\/strong> What is the religion of Mising?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> The Mising people practice the cult of \u2018Do-nyi \u2013 Po:lo\u2019 which literally translates into worshiping the Sun and the Moon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3.<\/strong> What is the language of Mising?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> The Mising language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Mising tribe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aninews.in\/news\/national\/general-news\/assam-mising-tribe-celebrates-the-ali-ai-ligang-festival-in-jorhat20250219150055\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ANI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mising people are an indigenous tribe from Northeast India<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30243","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=30243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}