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Burma image, WA0422. A group of Ngorn Chins, men, women and children. P.R.
The British administration classified the Ngorn Chins as a sub-group of the Tashon Chin peoples and in the 1931 Census of India, Ngorn was recognised as one of 44 languages which together made up the Kuki-Chin group of languages. The Ngor Chin people were deemed to pay tribute to the neighbouring, more powerful groups of Falaam. The British administrators, Bertram S. Carey and H. N. Tuck, give this rather unflattering account of how this relationship arose, which reveals their primary concern with the perceived martial abilities of the peoples with whom they were in contact in the years immediately following the imposition of British rule in this region: 'The Norns [Ngorns], who live on the west bank of the Manipur River, chiefly in Shinshi, Bwelkwa, Nomwel, &c. take their name from an ancestor named Norn, who was of the same family as the Kwunglis and subordinate to that village. When Falam annexed Kwungli all those villages which were subordinate to it became tributary to Falam, and so we still find them, though they look o n Kwungli as their head. The Kwunglis have the reputation of being good fighters and determined raiders, who have made successful forays amongst the Northern Chins, but the Norns are a wretched and timid lot, whose reputation shows them to be good traders but no warriors. When the time comes to disarm the Tashons 75 Sepoys will be able to march through their tract after the disarmament of Falam and Kwungli and confiscate all their guns without a blow' ['The Chin Hills: Vol. I', B. S. Carey and H. N. Tuck, Rangoon, 1896, p.145-146]
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The British administration classified the Ngorn Chins as a sub-group of the Tashon Chin peoples and in the 1931 Census of India, Ngorn was recognised as one of 44 languages which together made up the Kuki-Chin group of languages. The Ngor Chin people were deemed to pay tribute to the neighbouring, more powerful groups of Falaam. The British administrators, Bertram S. Carey and H. N. Tuck, give this rather unflattering account of how this relationship arose, which reveals their primary concern with the perceived martial abilities of the peoples with whom they were in contact in the years immediately following the imposition of British rule in this region: 'The Norns [Ngorns], who live on the west bank of the Manipur River, chiefly in Shinshi, Bwelkwa, Nomwel, &c. take their name from an ancestor named Norn, who was of the same family as the Kwunglis and subordinate to that village. When Falam annexed Kwungli all those villages which were subordinate to it became tributary to Falam, and so we still find them, though they look o n Kwungli as their head. The Kwunglis have the reputation of being good fighters and determined raiders, who have made successful forays amongst the Northern Chins, but the Norns are a wretched and timid lot, whose reputation shows them to be good traders but no warriors. When the time comes to disarm the Tashons 75 Sepoys will be able to march through their tract after the disarmament of Falam and Kwungli and confiscate all their guns without a blow' ['The Chin Hills: Vol. I', B. S. Carey and H. N. Tuck, Rangoon, 1896, p.145-146]
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