The Sukte are one of the clan of

Kuki people The Kuki people are an ethnic group native to the Mizo Hills (formerly Lushai), a mountainous region in the southeastern part of Mizoram and Manipur in India. The Kuki constitute one of several hill tribes within India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar ...

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 ...

state in India, and a former subject of 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 ...

until before they claimed their independent chieftainship under the military cover of Pawihang in the mid 19th century CE. They were listed as Salhte in the 1947 Constitution where they are among the groups given

Adivasi The Adivasi refers to inhabitants of Indian subcontinent, generally tribal people. The term is a Sanskrit word coined in the 1930s by political activists to give the tribal people an indigenous identity by claiming an indigenous origin. The term ...

status. They are commonly referred to as the Zo by others, but they use the name Sukte for themselves. Only five people were counted in this ethnic group in the 1981 census. However the leader of the youth group for the Kuki/zo claims there are 3,500 Sukte currently. The Sukte are agriculturalists, growing primarily maize and rice. They are mainly Christian in religion.

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*http://www.e-pao.net/epSubPageExtractor.asp?src=news_section.opinions.Correction_to_a_misleading_article *http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ctd *http://manipur.nic.in/planning/DraftMSDR/Draft_SDR_pdf/Chapter%203_Demography.pdf *http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/JPN-chin-tiddim.html Ethnic groups in Northeast India Kuki tribes Scheduled Tribes of Manipur Ethnic groups in South Asia {{India-ethno-stub

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