The Garo people are a Tibeto-Burmese ethnic group who live mostly in the Northeast Indian state of Meghalaya with a smaller number in the neighbouring...
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Garo, also referred to by its endonym A·chikku, is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Northeast Indian states of Meghalaya, Assam, and Tripura. It...
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The Garo Hills (IPA: ˈgɑ:ro:) are part of the Garo-Khasi range in Meghalaya state of India. They are inhabited by the Garo people. It is one of the wettest...
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Look up Garo, garo, or garō in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Garo may refer to: Garo people, a tribal people in India Garo language, the language spoken...
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and covers East Garo Hills district, West Garo Hills district, South Garo Hills district, North Garo Hills district and South West Garo Hills district;...
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rice-farmers. They are said to have brought wet-field cultivation to Garo Hills, where the Garo people used slash and burn method of agriculture. Hajong have the...
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clans, with some of them preserving a hitherto sparsely documented Boro-Garo language called Koch, whereas others have switched to local varieties of...
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Pa Togan Sangma (category Garo people)
Sangma was a giant Garo tribe (A.chik Tribe) leader from Garo hills in North East India. In 1872, during the British occupation of Garo Hills (A.chik A.song)...
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bordering the Garo Hills display linguistic and cultural characteristics which show influences from both the Khasis to their east and the Garo people to the...
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Bangladesh to Arakan by Buddhists of Magh and Chakma background. In 1974, the Garo people were stripped of their property by the XLVI Vested and Non-President...
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Tura, Meghalaya (category Cities and towns in West Garo Hills district)
Tura (IPA: ˈtʊərə) is a municipality in the West Garo Hills district of the Indian state of Meghalaya. One of the largest towns in Meghalaya, Tura is located...
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Matrilineal society of Meghalaya (category People from Meghalaya)
practise matrilineal descent. Often referred to as Khasi people and Garo people, among the Khasi people which is a term used as a blanket term for various subgroups...
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Adolf Lu Hitler Marak (category People from West Garo Hills district)
was released on bail about a month later. The following year he lost the Garo Hills District Council election for the Dengnakpara G.D.C. constituency to...
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Conrad Sangma (category Garo people)
contested his first election in 2004, where he campaignd for a seat in the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council and lost by 182 votes. He was first elected...
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myth of the Garo people. The Central government of India has nominated the Garo Hills Conservation Area (GHCA), straddling South and West Garo Hills district...
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Mukul Sangma (category People from South West Garo Hills district)
Marak and Roshanara Begum at Ampatigiri, now the headquarters of South West Garo Hills district. In 1990, he graduated in medicine from the Regional Institute...
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Indian state to be called Garoland, for the people of the Garo Hills. Founded in February 1946 as the Garo National Conference, Moody K Marak was the first...
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P. A. Sangma (category Garo people)
September 1947 in Chapahati, a village in the erstwhile Garo Hills district of Assam (in present-day West Garo Hills, Meghalaya), to Dipchon Ch. Marak and Chimri...
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Ramke W. Momin (category Garo people)
the Garo tribe of northeastern India, sometime in the 1830s. The Garos did have a reputation for keeping their word. In religious matters, the Garos were...
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Numal Momin (category Garo people)
Urban Water Supply and Sewerage Board. He belongs to the Garo community. Momin belongs to Garo tribe. He completed his schooling from Balipathar High School...
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James Sangma (category Garo people)
from Dadenggre (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (ST) constituency in the West Garo Hills district from 2008 to 2023. Sangma is the son of former Chief Minister...
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after the erstwhile Garo Hills district of Meghalaya was re-organised with a view to bring the administration closer to the people. The district headquarters-complex...
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states of Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya and West Bengal. These peoples are speakers of either Bodo–Garo languages or Assamese.[citation needed] Some Tibeto-Burman...
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West Garo Hills is an administrative district in Garo Hills of the state of Meghalaya in India. Tura town is the administrative headquarters of the district...
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Garo speakers. Lyngngam speakers have food and dress similar to the neighboring Garo people. Garos consider Lyngngam ancestors to belong to the Garo Megam...
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Williamson A. Sangma (category People from South Garo Hills district)
October 1990), was a Garo leader, and the first Chief Minister of Meghalaya. He was also the first Governor of Mizoram among the Garos in 1989. Williamson...
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subgroup of Mande peoples, and sometimes used for one of them, Mandinka Garo people of northeastern India and northern Bangladesh Mande River in Bosnia and...
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Gilbertson Sangma (category Garo people)
Gilbertson Sangma (born 12 April 1955) is a former Indian footballer. He played as a striker. Sangma was regarded as "Man with golden boot" by the leading...
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Maria Manda (category Garo people)
10 May 2003 in Mandirgona village, Dhobaura, Mymensingh. She belongs to Garo tribe. Maria became involved in football in 2011. In 2013, they became the...
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Mizo people use the name Hmazil, the Garo people and the Chakma people of Chittagong Hill Tracts use the name Chindire and the Tanchangya people call...
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