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What race are the Khasi?
The People. The Khasi, Jaintia, Bhoi, War collectively known as the Hynniewtrep people predominantly inhabit the districts of East Meghalaya, also known to be one of the earliest ethnic group of settlers in the Indian sub-continent, belonging to the Proto Austroloid Monkhmer race.
What is the religion of Khasi?
Christianity
Most of the Khasis follow Christianity as the religion. The Khasi believe in the supreme creator God U Blei Nong-thaw. According to the Khasis this feminine Goddess protects them from all the troubles of the life.
Who is the main god of Khasi?
U Blei Nong-thaw
The Khasi believe in a creator god (U Blei Nong-thaw) who is considered feminine in gender (Ka lei Synshar). She is invoked when sacrifices are offered and during times of trouble.
Where did Khasi people came from?
Their research shows that the Khasis had migrated from somewhere in the Cambodia region and the great plains of the Mekong river. “The Khasi people belong to one of the earliest groups of races migrating to North East India,” writes Hamlet Bareh in The History and Culture of the Khasi People.
Are Khasis Mongoloid?
The ancestors of the present day Khasis were perhaps one of the immigrant tribes. Their physical features indicate they are Mongoloids.
How many types of Khasi are there?
The Khasi community can be divided into seven sub-groups, viz., War, Jaintia/Pnar, Lyngngam, Maram, Diko, Khyriem and Bhoi. These groups can be identified with certain geographical locations (see figure). Collectively they are called as Khasi.
What is the difference between Khasi and Jaintia?
Jaintia: This tribe resides in Jainti Hills and is a sub-tribe of Khasi. People of Jaintia tribe wear the same clothes as that of Khasi, which includes Jymphong and Dhoti for men and Jainism and Dhara for women. But during functions, they wear crowns of silver and gold with peak attached at the back of it.
Who are the Khasi people of Meghalaya?
The Khasi people are the native people of Meghalaya and are the largest ethnic group in the state. Their language, Khasi, is categorised as the northernmost Austroasiatic language. Primarily an oral language, they had no script of their own, they used the Bengali script until the arrival of the Welsh missionaries.
Who is the composer of the famous Khasi song ‘Jainsem’?
Tashi Tobgyal Back in 1964, when Bhupen Hazarika chose a Khasi love story for his fourth Assamese film Pratidhwani, he composed and sang, as a duet with Talat Mehmood, a song that described the traditional Khasi jainsem as a piece of cloth woven from lightning. “O’ akash, mor logorik tumi jano dekhisa?/
What exactly is a Jainsem?
So, what exactly is the jainsem — the traditional attire that Lyngdoh said she had worn without problems in London and Abu Dhabi, but which the club’s employees allegedly found “maid-like”, and “Nepali-like”?