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Leadership
The Mong Circle is led by a hereditary chieftain called a "raja." The Mong chieftains appoint and oversee headmen called mouza and village chiefs called karbaris.[2] The incumbent chieftain is Saching Prue (b. 1988)[3] of the Chowdhury house; he formally ascended the throne on 17 January 2009.[2] His predecessor, Paihala Prue Chowdhury, died in a roadside car accident on 22 October 2008.[4][5]
History
The Mong Circle dates to 1782 with the first chieftain, Mrachai.[6] During British rule, the British authorities designated the Mong Circle in 1871, to encompass an ethnically mixed population in the Feni valley.[7] In 1881, the Chittagong Hill Tracts were administratively divided into three circles, namely the Chakma Circle, the Bohmong Circle, and the Mong Circles, each presided over by a hereditary chief from the Chakma and Marma peoples.[8][9][10] The circles were codified into law with the Chittagong Hill Tract Regulations, 1900, eased revenue collection and administrative burdens on British authorities by delegating tax collection, land administration management and social arbitration responsibilities to the chieftains.[11][10] In 1901, the Mong Circle extended 653 square miles (1,690 km2).[12] This administrative structure remained in place until 1964, when the introduction of local self-government abolished the special status of these circles and brought local administration under the control of the central government.[8]
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4985-0026-5.
- ^ a b "Saching Prue new Mong King". The Daily Star. 2009-01-18. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
- ^ "Raja Saching Prue Chowdhury and Family". Mong Circle. 2012-05-27. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
- ^ "Mong Raja Prue dies in road crash". The Daily Star. 2008-10-23. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
- ^ "Mong Raja Prue Chy cremated". The Daily Star. 2008-10-28. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
- ^ "History & Culture". Rangamati Hill District Council. Archived from the original on 2018-09-19. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
- JSTOR 44145391.
- ^ JSTOR 4370578.
- ^ Hutchinson, Robert Henry Sneyd (1906). An Account of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Bengal Secretariat Book Depot.
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- ^ a b Kundu, Debasish; Samadder, Mrinmoy; Khan, Ashrafuzzaman; Shajahan Naomi, Sharin (2011-01-04). State of Justice in Chittagong Hill Tracts: Exploring the Formal and Informal Justice Institutions of Indigenous Communities. Research and Evaluation Division, BRAC.
- ^ "Bandarban wears festive look as Rajpunyah starts". The Daily Star. 2010-01-15. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
- ^ Hutchinson, Robert Henry Sneyd (1906). An Account of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Bengal Secretariat Book Depot. p. 122.
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