- Maraland
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Maraland is one of the three Autonomous District Councils within Mizoram state of India. The Mara Autonomous District Council government is headed by Chief Executive Member, Puhpa S.Khipo, a veteran Congress politician.
Religion
All ethnic Maras are Christian, mostly Evangelical. With the arrival of Rev. & Mrs. Reginald Arthur Lorrain in 1907 who had had earlier founded Lakher Pioneer Mission in London in the year 1905, within a decade Maras have all accepted Christianity. Though the missionaries were of baptist origin, they didn't affiliate the new found Church in Maraland with any outside Church. The current Evangelical Church of Maraland, India and Mara Evangelical Church, Myanmar were one before India partition. The major religious denomination in Maraland are Evangelical Church of Maraland, Congregational Church of India (Maraland), Lairam Isua Krista Baprist Kohhran, Salvation Army, Presbyterian Church of India, Baptist Church of Mizoram, United Penticostal Church, Seventh Day Adventist, Isua Krista Kohhran etc.
Facts and figures
- Area: c.1,800 km²
- Population: 45,000 (2001)
- Sub-tribes:
- Tlosai
- Hawthai
- Zyhno:
- Chapi:
- Vytu:
- Sub-tribes:
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- Religion:
- Christian: 100%
- Religion:
- Capital: Siaha (population 25,000)
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