Abstract
Religion of the Tangkhul Naga in North East India: Continuity and Change
Highlights
The “Religion of the Tangkhul Naga: Continuity and Change” as a research article is an outcome of an intensive fieldwork among the Tangkhul Naga tribe North-East in India for six months
The Tangkhul people are Christians but not many generations ago, they had their own traditional ancestral religion which was known as Hao
The traditional religion, which was known as Hao, remains only as folklore for the present younger generation of the Tangkhul community
Summary
The “Religion of the Tangkhul Naga: Continuity and Change” as a research article is an outcome of an intensive fieldwork among the Tangkhul Naga tribe North-East in India for six months. The community under study constitutes the major bulk of the population among the hill tribes of Manipur State, India. They occupy the Ukhrul District which constitutes 4409 sq km out of the total 22,356 sq km of Manipur with total population of 183, 115 (Census India 2011). They are mongoloid stock speaking Tibeto-Burman dialect and the district carves an international boundary with Myanmar (Burma) (Shimray 2007). The second objective of the study was to look into the way Christianity swept across this indigenous hilly terrain tribal community and the process and stages of conversion. To examine the converted Christian life and see if there is any continuity of the traditional religion after conversion
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