Village | |
Motto(s): 'Khuaṭan Lungkhat, Aanruangte In.' | |
Anthem: 'Semnak Khuazung Tlangpi Khuadawh' | |
Coordinates: 22°58′39″N 93°19′36″E / 22.97750°N 93.32667°E | |
Country | Myanmar |
State | Chin State |
District | Hakha |
Township | Thantlang |
Time zone | GMT+6:30 |
Tlangpi also known as Klangpi is a mountainous village of Chin people in Thantlang Township, Chin State, Myanmar. [1] It is located in the west of Chin State, 13 km away from the south of Camp Victoria, Headquarters of Chin National Front at India-Myanmar border. [2] In the 2014 Myanmar Census, the population in Tlangpi was 1,648 (females: 823 and males: 825). There were 346 'conventional households' in Tlangpi in 2014. [3]
In The Chin Hills Book Volume II 1896, Carey & Tuck mentioned Tlangpi as ‘Klangpi’ that had 70 houses. [4] In contrast, in the Chin-Lushai Land Book 1893, Reid correctly spelt the village name as 'Tlangpi' that had 100 houses. [5] In 1896, the houses in ‘Klangpi’ were built with bamboo in the manner of Lushai (Mizo) style. [6] Approximately in 1850, the Lai people of Vanzang village established Tlangpi village which now constitutes one of the six villages in Vanzang Hill Tract. [7]
Until 1895, Chinland (also known as Chin State or the Chin Hills) including Tlangpi was a sovereign territory with their own ruling system of chieftainship. [8] In 1872, 1888, 1889-1890 and 1895, the British invaded Chinland for colonisation. After the 1895 invasion, the British declared that Chinland was a British Colony separately. [8] The British legislated the Chin Hills Regulation (1896) to rule the Chin people in the Chin Hills and Lushai Hills. [9] The British did not abolish the Chin ruling system of chieftainship. Under the Chin Hills Regulation (1896), they applied the indirect rule to Chin people through the existing Chin Chiefs. [9]
In 1947, Mang Ling had become the Chief of Tlangpi under the Hakha sub-division of the British Colony. Tlangpi Chief was one of the 19 Chin Hills Chiefs who represented the Chin people's wish to the Frontier Areas Committee of Enquiry. [8] The Committee was formed to unify the Frontier Areas and 'Ministerial Burma' with the Frontier Areas people's 'free consent' before the British conferred independence upon Burma in 1948. [10]
Tlangpi has a bedrock mortar site at its northern outskirt. It is locally known as 'lungsum', literally meaning 'rock mortar'. [11] Prehistoric peoples used this type of bedrock mortars to grind foods. [12] Their use of bedrock mortars was world-wide from Americas to Asia. [12]
Just a stone's throw from the site of the bedrock mortar at the northern outskirt of Tlangpi, there exists a bedrock gayal (also known as mithun) which Tlangpi villagers call 'Lungsia', literally meaning 'rock gayal'. It is unknown whether the bedrock gayal is nature-made or historically man-made. [13] [14]
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