The independent country which the world recognized as the “Union of Burma” is the land of the forefathers of many different ethnic nationalities who lived in their own princely states independently during the pre-British period. Among these indigenous people, the Kukis were one.
Before the British colonial rule, the Kukis were not only fully independent but they also had their own custom, culture and tradition fully developed. With the establishment of the English East India Company, the Indian princely states were colonized one after another- Lower Burma in 1824, Assam in 1870 and Thibaw’s kingdom of Burma in 1886. Even when all the above states in the then India and Burma had been annexed into the British colony, yet the Kukis went on to enjoy their freedom. But the Kukis being defeated in the Anglo-Kuki war (1917-19), became under the British colonial rule.
The defeated Kukis were not content with the torture and harassment by the British during the post war. So they fought alongside the Japanese in the Second World War with the hope of restoring their lost Rights.
Just before the outbreak of the Second World War, Britain declare the Atlantic Charter which promised to...
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