01359nam a22001457a 4500999001900000008004100019100005900060245008200119260003400201300003300235520079700268773003401065942000701099952010701106  c533161d533161260427b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a Ngaihte, Thangkhanlal and Doungel, Jangkhongam960274  aThe colonial impact on chieftainship: The case of the ZO people (1896–1954)  aEconomic & Political Weekly    a61(8), Feb 21, 2026: p.53-59  aChieftainship, which has been central to the sociopolitical life of the Zo ethnic tribes in the Indo-Burma borderlands since precolonial times, features in all colonial writings on the Zo tribes, but there has been no major independent study of the institution. Analysing the impact of colonial rule on Zo chieftainship, the paper shows that colonial rule while hollowing out the core attributes of Zo chieftainship, entrenched landownership systems and economic power in favour of the chiefs within this system. This ultimately hastened the dissolution of the institution itself, in parts of the region, while further strengthening the hold of the chiefs on village lands in other places. –Reproduced 

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  aEconomic & Political Weekly    cAR  00102ddc40709408332aIIPAbIIPAd2026-04-27h61(8), Feb 21, 2026: p.53-5pAR138672r2026-04-27yAR