Talk:Zou people (India)

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[edit] Confusing Terminology

Zou is a name of Kuki-Chin-Mizo tribe in Manipur south district recognized by Government of India in 1954 at present,the authors article seems utopian in character.Zou is not synonymous with Zomi or Mizo or Jou or Zhou. If Zou is the name of all these people whom he mentioned why are there so many tribes and clans. Why don't they call themselves wiht one name only? The author has gone mad and crazy. It is put up to confuse younger generations and the Zou tribe/groups instead of unifying them.

[edit] Useful Ethnographic Information

This article provides useful ethnographic information; it is a contribution to the knowledge pool about the indigenous people along the Indo-Burma border. However, it needs more revision and more references to enhance its usefulness. Due to the absence of standard spelling in the past, the Zou people used different spellings (eg. Jo, Jou, Zou, Zo, etc.) at different points of time. But this problem should not be exaggerated. The history of literacy among the Zous is still very recent; so such problems are understandable.

Even in mainland India, there is a kind of craze to change place names - Calcutta to Kolkotta, Bombay to Mumbai, Madras to Chennai, Bangalore to Bangalooru. The same is true of tribe-names in Northeast India. Many of the tribe-names mentioned in colonial ethnography of Northeast India (Shendu, Siyin, Kamhau, Lushai, etc.) are hardly known and used or remembered today. Perhaps they are discarded for good. It is confusing indeed; but what can we do? Is there a politics and power behind all tribe names and place names? Or, are they happy accidents?

[edit] This is about Zou tribe, not about Zomi or Zo

Please don't change the original term "Zou" into Zomi or Zo of Burma, Bangladesh and India. The "Zou people" is an entry about the "Zou tribe" of Manipur state of India. Zomi and Zo have different entries in the Wikipedia.