Kuki (Indic people); Lushai (Asian people); Lushai language
The Pallian followed the same route as the Zadeng. The best
known chiefs of this clan are Sibuta (Sheeboot) and Lalsuktla
(Lalchokla). Sibuta is said in Mackenzie's "Eastern Frontier"
to have thrown off the Tipperah yoke with 25,000 houses. He died
close to Aijal, and his memorial stone is at the first stage on the
Aijal-Lungleh road. It is extremely doubtful whether he ever was really
subject to Tipperah, though it is certain that all these Lushai clans
had dealings with the Tipperah Rajahs and feared them greatly. Among
the tales in Chapter V. will be found one which exemplifies this.
Lalsuktla (Lal chokla), captured by Captain Blackwood in 1841, was
a great-grandson of Sibuta's. Purbura is said to have been a very
powerful Pallian chief and at one time to have received tribute from
almost all his contemporary Thangur chiefs. He had a large village,
said to contain 3,000 houses, on the Dungtlang, whence he moved
as far westwards as Pukzing, where his village was destroyed by a
combined force of Zadeng, Sailo, and Chuckmahs. This attack took place
somewhere about 1830. Purbura rebuilt his village, but died soon after,
and his descendants were attacked frequently by the chiefs of the
Rolura branch of the Sailo family, and now only two small hamlets,
close to Aijal, remain to remind us of this once powerful clan.
The Sailo.--These chiefs are descended from Sailova, a great-grandson
of Thang-ura's. They came into prominence last, but have crushed all
their rivals, and have developed such a talent for governing that
they hold undisputed sway over representatives of all sorts of clans,
over nearly the whole of the area now known as the Lushai Hills.
This great family has often come in contact with the British
Government, but from the fact that our dealings with them have
generally been through illiterate interpreters, they appear in our
records under various names. The Howlongs, who caused much anxiety on
the Chittagong frontier from 1860 to 1890, Lalul's descendants, whose
doings fill the records of Silchar for nearly a century, Vonolel,
Savunga, and Sangvunga, against whom the two columns of the Lushai
Expedition of 1871-72 were directed--all these were Sailos.
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