THE ECONOMIC LIFE OF THE TANGKHUL COMMUNITY CONTINUITY AND CHANGES
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.65009/y9yvn681Keywords:
Tangkhul, Agriculture, Economy, Market, Modernization.,,Abstract
The Tangkhul community lived in the North-Eastern part of Manipur. Agriculture played
an important role in the livelihood of the community. The Tangkhul economy is a self
sufficient economy except for salt. They cultivate mainly for self-consumption of the family
and the surplus is either used for barter trade or for the livestock. The economic life in the early
days primarily depended on agricultural activities, food gathering, hunting and fishing. The
wealth of the family was measured by the possession of the field and cattle they possessed.
Rice being the staple food for the Tangkhuls, they practiced both wet and jhum rice cultivation.
The absence of irrigation facilities and adequate physical infrastructure prevented the practice
of double cropping of rice. Development and growth in the transport and communication
system helped the market economy of the Tangkhuls. Agricultural work is being improved
through the use of high yielding variety seeds and modern machine. This paper is an attempt
to revisit the early economic life of society and the changes brought by globalization and
modernization and its continuity and changes from a historical perspective.
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