Darlong Khawrua

The DHI has its own customary laws and an advisory board that help formulate and dictate the laws. The law does not allow any individual to approach the court without the consent of DHI. In fact, the DHI is the apex court of the people that dictate and make decision on all matters of it subject; inheritance, marriage, family dispute, abduction, theft, divorce, re-marriage, adultery, murder, orphan, dacoit, formation of organisation, et al. Thus, directory customary law consisted of twenty eight chapters with each chapter having not less than couple of clauses. The first chapter speaks about the power, duties, qualifications, resignation, election, dissolution, quota, formation and administration of the DHI while the second chapter speaks about how the apex court can form and dissolve a village council in every Darlong village, the qualifications of the council members, tenure, election, application of the council, duties and how a case can be pass on to the apex court through the

  HILL TRIPURA AND THE DARLONG: The Darlong (the then Kuki) were said to be among the earliest settlers of present Tripura known differently among different tribes; Kukis to Bengalese and other plain living people, Lushais to the Cacharis, Khongjais to the Manipuris, Chins in Burma, Sikam to the Kokborok speaking tribes and Kirats in the early Sanskritik text. According to Mackenzie, “Kirat ( the hunter ), exiled by his father ‘Yajati’, founded the city of Tribeg on the banks of the Brahmaputra. To him succeeded Tripura, from whom the raj took name, and who is execrated by the Brahmins historians as the opponent of Siva worship, which was then alluring the imaginations and exciting the passions of the people. Tripura’s efforts to suppress the rites of Siva were ineffectual and to reward the devotion of the people, the deity of the Lingam vouchsafe to Tripura’s widow a son, named after himself, Trilochun, devoted to the worship of the fourteen gods, who increased in wisdom a