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The Bawi system was an institution of slavery established under Lushai tribes. It remained in use in precolonial systems of chieftainship before being challenged by Christian Missionaries and political institutions such as the Mizo Union.

Etymology

Early British administrators used polyglot officials to extract terminology the the Lushai Tribes. Bawi was initially listed as a gendered noun known as bay-pa for male slaves and bay-nu for female slaves. When the missionaries of the Lushai Hills decided to create a roman alphabet as a written language of Duhlien, limitations of the representation of the tonal language led to transcription of the 'o' sound as an 'aw' sound making it spelt bawi instead of boi. Furthermore, the word became widely used outside of a gendered context and was treated analogously to mean both slave and the institution of slavery itself.

Characteristics

History

References

  1. Chatterjee 2006, p. 287.

Sources

  • Chatterjee, Indrani (2006). "Slavery, Semantics, and the Sound of Silence". In Chatterjee, Indrani; Eaton, Richard M. (eds.). Slavery and South Asian History. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 285-315.
  • Chatterjee, Suhas (1995). Mizo Chiefs and the chiefdom. New Delhi: M D Publicatgions PVT LTD. ISBN 81-85880-72-7.

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