Tiwa

The Tiwa, or Lalung, are a Tibeto-Burman people of central Assam and the Meghalaya hills. Among the Hill Tiwa, seven old villages form the ritual as well as the political centre, and each village's chief, the loro, performs judicial and religious duties for a network of settlements.

Every clan keeps its own place of worship for its titular god, and festivals such as Sogra Phuja and Langkhon Phuja mark the year. At the Jonbeel fair, said to date from the fifteenth century at the latest, a fire worship is performed before the trading begins.