Tai Kham Ti
The Tai Kham Ti (Khamti) are an ethnic group living in northern Myanmar and Thailand . You, along with eleven others, consider yourself Shan .
origin
In Burma, the Kham Ti are native to the northern Shan State and the Kachin State , and they particularly inhabit the mountain regions.
They originally lived at the sources of the Irrawaddy . The great expeditions of the Shan conquest through India were accompanied by a similar movement towards Assam . The first immigrants there appeared Ahom (Aham) that in 1554 the Brahmanism assumptions and gradually into the Hindu population have been merged.
The Kham Ti first collapsed between 1780 and 1790 . In 1839 they rebelled against the British government. The last peaceful immigration took place around 1850.
literature
- Lepper (1883): Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bombay . Bombay
- Lewis, M. Paul (ed.), (2009): Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. Dallas, Tex .: SIL International