{"id":73682,"date":"2025-11-16T13:02:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T07:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=73682"},"modified":"2025-11-16T14:05:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T08:35:39","slug":"maram-naga-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/maram-naga-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Maram Naga Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Maram Naga Tribe Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Centre recently sanctioned Rs 9 crore under Jan Man Scheme for Maram Naga tribe development, welfare projects, and cultural preservation in Manipur.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Maram Naga Tribe<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Maram Naga tribe belongs to the <\/span><b>Naga ethnic group<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, inhabiting the <\/span><b>Northeastern part of India <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as well as the <\/span><b>Western part of Myanmar.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Maram habitat falls under the <\/span><b>Senapati district of<\/b> <b>Manipur<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Marams are<\/span><b> surrounded by other Naga tribes in all directions.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are considered to be a part of the <\/span><b>Tibeto-Burman family of the Mongoloid race.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Language<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Linguistically, they belong to the sub-family of the <\/span><b>Sino-Tibetan family.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The people speak the <\/span><b>Maram language.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> There are some variations in the way the dialect is spoken, corresponding with geographical location.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They use <\/span><b>Roman script in writing their language.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Occupation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Agriculture <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is the main occupation of the people.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Shifting cultivation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the main cultivation practiced by them. They are also involved in <\/span><b>wet cultivation.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Hunting is the secondary occupation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of Maram tribes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Beliefs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maram tribes are the <\/span><b>worshippers of supernatural benevolent and malevolent beings.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two <\/span><b>major festivals<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the Marams are <\/span><b>Punghi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (celebrated in July) and <\/span><b>Kangh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">i (in December).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tribe also celebrates a unique festival called <\/span><b>Mangkang<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> around April every year, <\/span><b>dedicated to the women folks.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/m.nenow.in\/article\/manipur\/centre-sanctions-rs-9-crore-development-program-for-maram-naga-tribe-in-manipur\/473502\/amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NEN<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maram Naga Tribe belongs to the Naga ethnic group, inhabiting the Northeastern part of India as well as the Western part of Myanmar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":73706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3730,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-73682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-maram-naga-tribe","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","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\/73682","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}