Mishing derives from the two word Mi and Toshing/Anshing. Mi - TopicsExpress



          

Mishing derives from the two word Mi and Toshing/Anshing. Mi means man while Anshing/Toshing means worthiness or cool. So Mishing means man of worthiness. The word mi is familiar to many tribe in south east asia. Mizo and Mishmi are one such example. To depict non tribal outsiders(most probably the general assamese people) the word Mipak is used extensively which means man of unworthiness. So mipak is the opposite meaning of Mishing. The Mishing or Misíng also called Miri , are an ethnic tribal group inhabiting the districts of Dhemaji, North Lakhimpur , Sonitpur, Tinsukia, Dibrugarh , Sibsagar , Jorhat and Golaghat of the Assam state in India. The total population is more than 1 million in Assam but there are also more than 50,000 Mishing people, divided among three districts: East Siang district, Lower Dibang Valley , and Lohit districts of Arunachal Pradesh. Few of them have settled themselves permanently in National capital Delhi and few hundreds in Mumbai which is the financial capital of India. They are the second largest tribal group in North-East India,
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 02:31:52 +0000

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