Moran people

Moran, Maran
	Moran Bihu Dance
Total population
	80,000
Regions with significant populations
	Predominately in Upper Assam and few districts of Arunachal Pradesh
Languages
	Assamese
Religion
	Animism,; Ekasarana Dharma;
Related ethnic groups
	Deoris, Chutias, Dimasas, Boros

The Moran are an ethnic group found in the northeast Indian state of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. They are mainly concentrated in the districts of Upper Assam and adjoining districts of Arunachal Pradesh. They are of Tibeto-Burman origin and belong to the Bodo Kachari family. They speak Assamese language, though they used to speak Moran language that was closely related to the Dimasa language.^[2]They once shared the same allied customs with other Bodo-Kachari groups but after their conversion to Vaishnavism, the customs began to diminish but still those customs can be seen intermixed with Vaishnavism. They were among the first peoples who were initiated into Ekasarana dharma by Aniruddhadev.^[3]

History[]

The Moran community is one of the aboriginal tribes of Assam. In the 13th century they lived in the south eastern corner of the Brahmaputra valley occupying territories between the Disang and Dihing rivers.^[4] The Morans have a long history in the north–eastern part of India. They had their own independent chiefdom before the advent of the Ahoms. The origin of the word Moran is still remains obscure. According to the British reports the Morans are a distinct tribe inhabiting the jungle, which is, a division of upper Assam.^{[citation needed]}

They had an chiefdom led by chief Bodousa before the advent of the Ahom king Sukaphaa. Having arrived in this affluent kingdom, Sukaphaa proposed to marry princess Gondheswari- the daughter of Moran chief Bodousa. The chief Bodousa accepted his proposal and thus the Moran's became a part of the newly created Ahom polity.^[5] Due to their close relation with the Ahoms, the Morans seem to have adopted many of the Ahom rites and rituals.^{[citation needed]}

They were also known by the name Habungiya or Hasa where Ha means soil or Earth in Moran language and Sa means son and Habungiya or Hasa means son of soil.^[6]

Notes[]

^ ..members of the Mataks like the Morans,Barahis, Kacharis and Chutiyas, being members of the great Bodo family, had allied religious beliefs and customs. All of them worshipped a Primodial male deity and a Primodial female deity, and all of them were animist.(Dutta 1985:48)
^ "I have recently been able to demonstrate that Gurdon’s dialect is a variety of Dimasa, since it retains all the features examined here: it has the same consonant clusters and diphthongs as Dimasa." (Jaquesson 2017:108)
^ Dutta 1985, p. 21.
^ "At the time of Sukapha's advent, the Morans were ruling the tract bounded by the rivers Buri Dihing in the north, Disang in the south, Suffry in the east and Brahmaputra in the west."(Dutta 1985:21)
^ "Hunar Raja (The Gold King)- A Saga of Untold Past". www.induswomanwriting.com. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
^ "By their Ahom conquerors the Morons were employed in various menial capacities, as hewers of wood and drawers of water, and were sometimes known as Habungiyas, earth-folk, or true autoch-thones, " sons of the soil"(Endle 1911:88)

References[]

Jaquesson, François (2017). Translated by van Breugel, Seino. "The linguistic reconstruction of the past The case of the Boro-Garo languages". Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area. 40 (1): 90–122. doi:10.1075/ltba.40.1.04van.
Dutta, Sristidhar (1985), The Mataks and their Kingdom, Allahabad: Chugh Publications
Endle, Sidney (1911). The Kacharis. London: Macmillan and Co. Retrieved 20 February 2013.

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[1] ..members of the Mataks like the Morans,Barahis, Kacharis and Chutiyas, being members of the great Bodo family, had allied religious beliefs and customs. All of them worshipped a Primodial male deity and a Primodial female deity, and all of them were animist.(Dutta 1985:48)

[:0-2] "I have recently been able to demonstrate that Gurdon’s dialect is a variety of Dimasa, since it retains all the features examined here: it has the same consonant clusters and diphthongs as Dimasa." (Jaquesson 2017:108)

[FOOTNOTEDutta198521-3] Dutta 1985, p. 21.

[4] "At the time of Sukapha's advent, the Morans were ruling the tract bounded by the rivers Buri Dihing in the north, Disang in the south, Suffry in the east and Brahmaputra in the west."(Dutta 1985:21)

[5] "Hunar Raja (The Gold King)- A Saga of Untold Past". www.induswomanwriting.com. Retrieved 2021-06-24.

[6] "By their Ahom conquerors the Morons were employed in various menial capacities, as hewers of wood and drawers of water, and were sometimes known as Habungiyas, earth-folk, or true autoch-thones, " sons of the soil"(Endle 1911:88)

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