Goukhothang, Raja (–1872) spelled Go kho thang in Tedim was a prince from the
Guite
Guite is the progenitor clan of Mizo people He is also said to be the Older Brother of Thadou progenitor of the Thadou people. Mostly the Guite clan speak mizo language . Some known as Zomi and few also as kuki in India and as Zogam in Myanmar ...
family of
Paite people
Paite are a tribe dwelling in India.
See also
* List of Scheduled Tribes in India
This is a list of Scheduled Tribes in India. The term "Scheduled Tribes" refers to specific tribes whose status is acknowledged to some formal degree by nationa ...
. He was known as the then leader of all
Zo people
The Zomi are an ethnic group which can be found in India, Myanmar and in Chittagong hill tracks of Bangladesh. The word Zomi is used to describe an ethnic group, which is also known as the Chin, the Mizo, the Kuki, or a number of other names ...
as Carey and Tuck also noted him as the Yo Chief of Mwelpi (Mualpi). He was later captured by the
Manipuri troops of Raja
Chandrakirti
Chandrakirti (; ; , meaning "glory of the moon" in Sanskrit) or "Chandra" was a Buddhist scholar of the madhyamaka school and a noted commentator on the works of Nagarjuna () and those of his main disciple, Aryadeva. He wrote two influential w ...
and died in an Imphal jail. According to his documentary video presentation released in 2006, He was born in
Tedim
Tedim (, , ( Zo: ''Tedim Khawpi'', pronounced ; is a town in and the administrative seat of Tedim Township, Chin State, in the north-western part of Burma. It is the second largest town in Chin State. The town's four major boroughs (''vengte'') a ...
-Lamzang area of present-day
Chin State
Chin State (, ) is a state in western Myanmar. The Chin State is bordered by Sagaing Division and Magway Division to the east, Rakhine State to the south, Bangladesh to the south-west, and the Indian states of Mizoram to the west and Manipur t ...
(Myanmar-Burma), one of the then political centers of the Guite clan. He succeeded his father, Mang Suum II, in 1855, and moved the capital to fortified village of Mualpi in present-day
Tonzang
Tonzang(တွန်းဇန်) is a town, located in northern Chin State, western side of Myanmar.
Tonzang is at about 37 miles north-eastern of Tedim town.
The people who live in Tonzang are called Zo and Zomi.
They speak Zo, Zomi and Burmese ...
township. In commemoration of Goukhothang, a football tournament is bi-annually held in
Lamka
Churachandpur District ( Meitei pronunciation: ''/tʃʊraːˌtʃaːnɗpʊr/''), is one of the 16 districts in the southwestern corner of the Indian state of Manipur that covers an area of . It is named after the Meitei King Churachand Singh, ...
(Churachandpur) in
Manipur
Manipur () ( mni, Kangleipak) is a state in Northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital. It is bounded by the Indian states of Nagaland to the north, Mizoram to the south and Assam to the west. It also borders two regions of Myanm ...
, India, by Ropiang Foundation Trust.
[More pages on Raja Gokhothang can be read in a recent publication on the Guite family history in Ngul L. Zam, ''Mualthum Kampau Guite Hausate Tangthu'' (Amazon/Create Space: Lexington, KY, 2018), 158-163. .]
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1872 deaths
People from Manipur
Year of birth uncertain
19th-century Indian royalty