Mising Agom Kebang (Assam Art & Culture Notes)

Mising Agom Kebang (MAK): APSC Study Materials & Notes

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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