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Manipur group in search of 1200-year-old roots
- People from Sekmai claim to be descendants of the 'great' Lais, the mother of all Tai communities
The Telegraph | Smita Bhattacharyya | Jorhat, Dec. 13:
The search for their roots has brought a group of people from Sekmai in Manipur to the Tai research institute at Moranhat in Assam's Sivasagar district. On them lies the onerous task of re-establishing their identity as the "great" Tai Lais from Southeast Asia, who came to the Northeast 1,200 years ago, about 400 years before the Tai Ahoms did.
The group has sought help from the Institute of Tai Studies and Research (ITSR) at Moranhat to research their origins and establish them as a separate Tai community who had come to the region from Northeast Thailand via Myanmar before the Tai Ahoms came in 1228 AD and ruled the region for more than 600 years.
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