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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.

• McCall, Anthony G. (1977) . Lushai Chrysalis. Calcutta: Firma KLM Private.

• Nag, Sajal (21 April 2016). The Uprising: Colonial State, Christian Missionaries, and Anti-Slavery Movement in North-East India (1908-1954). India: Oxford University press. ISBN 978-0-19-946089-2.

• Nag, Sajal (2012). "Rescuing Imagined Slaves: Colonial State, MIssionary and Slavery Debate in North East India (1908-1920)". Indian Historical Review. 39 (1): 57–71. doi:10.1177/0376983612449529. Retrieved 6 November 2024.

• Sanate, Crossthang (December 2014). "The Institution of Bawi (Slave): Retrospection on the History of the Abolition of Slavery among the Hmars in North-East India" (PDF). International Journal of Science and Research. 3 (12). ISSN 2319-7064. Retrieved 6 November 2024.

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