ABBREVIATIONS

AAP Aam Admi Party

ADC Autonomous District Council

AIMSU All Idu Mishmi Students Union

BCM Baptist Church of Mizoram

BJP Bhartiya Janta Party

BTP Bhartiya Tribal Party

CEM Chief Executive Member

CoI Census of India

DBD Dakshin Bastar Dantewada

DMK Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

DNTs Denotified, Nomadic, and Semi-Nomadic Tribes

ECM Evangelical Church of Maraland

EFCI Evangelical Free Church of India

GoD Gazetteer of Odisha, Dehenkanal

HR&CE The Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments

ICI Independent Church of India

ILO International Labour Organizations

IMCLS Idu Mishmi Cultural & Literary Society

INC Indian National Congress

IPD-Igu Identification, Preservation, and Documentation of Igu

KIRTADS Kerala Institute for Research Training and Development Studies of

Scheduled and Scheduled Castes

LIKBK Lairam Isua Krista Baptist Kohhran

MDC Member of District Council

MFP Minor Forest Produces

MHIP Mizoram Hmeichhe Insuihkhawm Pawl

MKHC Mizoram Kohhran Hruaitu Committee

MLPC Mizoram Liquor Prohibition and Control

MLTP Mizoram Liquor Total Prohibition

MNF Mizo National Front

Abbreviations

MoC Memorandum of the Census of British India

MPF Mizoram People Forum

MTP Mara Thutlya Pi

MUP Mizoram Upa Pawl

NAIRCC National Adivasi-indigenous Religion Coordination Committee

NBR Nilgiri Biosphere Reserves

NDTV New Delhi Television

NTK Naam Tamizhar Katchi

OBC Other Backward Caste/Class

ORP Other Religions and Persuasions

PCI Presbyterian Church of India

PCM Presbyterian Church of Mizoram

PVTG Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group

RSS Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

TRC Tingkao Ragwang Chapriak

VHP Vishva Hindu Parishad

YCA Young Chakma Association

YLA Young Lai Association

YMA Young Mizo Association

ZPM Zoram People Movement