Chin+Kuki+Zo : Genesis and Exodus : Unravelling the Mystified Lost Past of the Unidentified Proto-Sino-Tibeto-Burman Family

Contents: Preface. I. Tracing lost past: 1. Introductory: the people and their territory. 2. A quest beyond the traditional compass. 3. Earlier concepts on Chin, Kuki and Zo. 4. Syncretisation : theses, antitheses syntheses and inferences. II. Abridged socio-political diary of a rejected nation: 5. Indigenous chin+Kuki+Zo: fourth world nation. 6. Under neo-colonialism. 7. Signs of nationalism. 8. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.

Part I: Quite contradicted to the previous theories and inferences tendered during the 19th 20th c. CE this peculiar book, which might be the first of its kind for the people variedly called Chin, Kuki, Mizo and Zomi, loaned wide ranges of data from the disciplines of anthropology, archaeology, bionomic, biogeography,  bio-speleology, genetic experiments geology, palaeontology, paleoanthropology, philology, seismology, volcanology and c and thus finds the Chin+Kuki+Zo CKZ to have been one among the Palaeo-Mongoloids or proto-Di who moseyed eastward out of Africa, The Cradle of Humankind along the foothills of present day the Himalayas. It also brings out an impressive hypothesis on the origin or etymon of the terms Chin, Kuki and Zo.

As regards to the prehistoric or preliterate period the hypotheses are mostly moulded out of cross examinations and comparative analyses of myths, traditions and scientific findings in different parts of China, South and Southeast Asian countries and Africa. In other words, it can also be deemed as a sequel or follow up of the author\'s previous work entitled Khulmi? Chhinlung, Hurpi, Khol, Khul, Khur, Sinlung: Beyond Identity and Political Crises. It continues the search for the legendary Khul, and thus it also discusses and examines in detail the songbuh rock shelter Phoikon Haosapi caves and the Senlung caves which were recently explored by the Kuki Research Forum Indo-Bangla Myanmar. Another interesting subject in this book quite impressively yet relatively contradicted to the earlier interpretations the author hypothesized that the legendary phenomenon Thimzin/Thimzing or Mujinlhun .

Part II: organised like a memoir. The CKZ\'s indigenous or Fourth World Nation status and whether the modern constitutional term Tribe is a boon or curse are vividly discussed. It also presents what nationalism meant to this indigenous people, their political culture, armed rebellions and revolutions and their ethno-socio-political struggles and developments under the British\'s colonial rule and the Third World governments, India,  Myanmar and Bangladesh. Therefore, it is a book which any likeminded researcher and scholar on the subjects may find it worth reading and valuable. (jacket)