Eastern state known for the highest concentration of tribal peoples in India, the largest one of which, the "Mizo", the state is named after ("Ram" means land).
Annexed to British India in 1895, the territory was left vulnerable to neighboring encroachments upon India's independence in 1947. India's aggressive effort to destroy local clan rights which led to the "Acquisition of Chief's Rights" Act in 1954 resulted in an armed insurgency of clans fighting it for independence in reaction. Efforts to pacify the region led to the Mizoram Peace Accord of 1986, which brought Mizoram into the union as a state in 1987.
One of only three states with a Christian majority (87% of the population as of 2001, and mostly Presbyterian).
