Mising Agom Kebang (MAK): APSC Study Materials & Notes
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Mising Agom Kebang
Mising Agom Kebang
- The Mising Agom Kebang is the highest body of the Mising people.
- It was established on 18 April 1972 in the district of Dhemaji, Assam.
- It is a non-political voluntary organization, dedicated to the cause of preservation and development of Mising language and literature.
- It has been registered as a ‘society’under the SOCIETIES REGISTRATION ACT, 1860, Govt of India
Genesis
- Nahendra Padun, a research student at Gauhati University, and Prof. Tabu Taid, a lecturer in English at Cotton College, Guwahati, initiated to carrying the works of the Guwahati Mising Kebang at the level of the whole Mising community.
- A meeting was organised at Disangmukh of Sibsagar district on April 17 and 18, 1972 and there a resolution was adopted to set up an organization named Mising Agom Kebang (MAK).
- Tabu Ram Taid as its first president and Nahendra Padun as its first secretary.
Activities
- The MAK decided to adopt the Roman system of writing as the script for Mising language, with extensive modification as per the requirement of the phonemics of the Mising tribes.
- MAK has also published various books and periodicals written in Mising language, mainly on Mising language, literature, and culture.
- MAK also worked for the introduction of Mising language in the primary schools in Mising villages, and in 1985 the Assam government agreed to do so.
Headquarters – Karichuk in Dhemaji District.
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