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This App is mainly for Mising or Mishing Peoples, who live in Assam India, The Mishings are an indigenous Tribal community inhabiting 11 districts of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. They were earlier called Miris in historical days. and the Constitution of India still refers to them as Miris. Miri is the older name and traces back to the ancestor Abo Tani. Mishings are recognised as a Scheduled Tribe by the Indian government under the name 'Miri.' Mishing derives from the two word Mi and Yasing. 'Mi' means 'men,' while 'yasing' means fair or worthy, so 'mishing' means a 'worthy man.' To depict other non tribal Assamese communities the word Mipak is used extensively. Mipak is the opposite meaning of Mishing.

The Mishing belong to greater group of Tani peoples, who speak languages of the Sino-Tibetan family, which comprise many tribes of Arunachal Pradesh in India and Tibet in China. All Tani tribes share linguistic, cultural and ritual similarities.They were believed to be original inhabitant of the northern part of Shansi river stretching to the Mongolian steppe and said to be remained there during Shang dynasty (1766 to 1122 B.C) up to Zhou rule (1122 to 225 B.C) within the pockets of primitive communities which were collectively known as Miao or Yao.

There is no written history of Mishings about their migration from northern China to the plains of Assam but history was passed down orally in the form of folk songs and stories of the ancestors from generation to generation and is still prevalent among their society. Though they belong to Tani group of tribes and they used to be hill dwellers, they started living on the banks of rivers in the plains of Assam. The reason for this change of habitat is not known, but there are theories. One theory says that Misings presently living in plains of Assam were not a one single tribe, but evolved into one when many tribes from various Tani tribes in Arunachal Pradesh migrated to the plains of Assam. This explains the presence of many Mishing clans with different Mishing dialects as well as different levels of development.

MISING RENGAM IRROI