The Darlong society, obviously,
is one of the fastest growing societies in Tripura in this century. However,
due to the limitation of its socio-economic development and imbalanced growth,
there are certain societal perils that are dangerous to its own gradual and
healthy growth. The Darlong society’s access to the outside world is limited by
its geographical setting and limited transpiration means which is important to
broaden the general mindsets of the people and the progress of civilization. As
a result, there is lack of essential social adventure among the Darlong people. Just like the product of a
concentrated society, instead of promoting a democratic social principles and
creating an opened society for its own people and the friendly neighborhoods,
it becomes a racially protective and defensive society. Fearing
self-annihilation while there is no such substantial social threat.
Economically, its dependency on the State government of Tripura and lack of its
self-reliance long-term economic policy, there is an obvious psychological
inconveniency and future uncertainty. At the worst, many people live in fear,
fear of sins, crime, and economic insufficiency.
As the Darlong society is
going to celebrate its Christian centenary in the coming year 2019, the primitive traditional practices
have been already transformed into a modern Christian culture mostly adopted
from the western life styles and social norms. Not only Christianity had helped
the progress of social cultural evolution in the Darlong society, but also the
fast growing literacy rate has broadened the Darlong perspective and fastens
the progress of the Darlong civilization. Moreover, the struggle for its
national survival brought the people together under one socio-political psycho,
moving toward the goal of one people-one nation even under the rule of the
central government of India. It can be also assumed that the grassroots level
structure of theDarlong society is one of the best among the people groups
around the Indo-Burma border, that every single individual in the society has
chance and opportunity to get involve in the community based social activity to
promote the cause of the common good. Some participate in church activities as
most of the citizens are Christians, while other may get involve in any of the
community based organizations, such as the Darlong Hnam Inzawm, (DHI), Young Darlong
Association(YDA), Darlong Nupang Inzawm (Darlong Women Association), Darlong
Thoktu Nih Lekha Thiam Inzawmkhawm (DTLI)etc. etc. Therefore, the societal
structure allows a systematic social development for its citizens. However, the
other side of the societal scenario is that the society has a nature of group
behaving instead of a common social force contributed by individualized
participation which result is unregulated mod-rule that usually goes beyond
social necessity when reacting to any common conflicts in the society. That is
also dangerous to a systematic and rationalized social cultural evolution of
the society. Such kind of mod activities has been often seen in different parts
of India too.
The Darlongs are very much-socialized people that wherever four or five Darlongs live together outside Tripura, they could, may be always, reach a common ground where they can socially do something together. They are more communitarian than individualistic. One of the negative aspects of the Darlong society is that due to lack of access to the outside world, especially who have been born and brought up within the state of Tripura, there is lack of understanding about the multiculturalism and fortune sharing with other fellow human societies. However, there is the top class of people in the society those who have intellectually and rationally comprehended well all the said social cultural issues and inter-personal relation with the outsiders. Secondly, there is also a class of people in the bottom of the society. They have a very limited access to the benefit of the Tripura statehood and they are pretty much still living in the primitive life style, except a few socially superficial transformation. For example, those people in the rural areas finding their way of life from a traditional sifting cultivation, they still are abode by the Darlong traditional philosophy of life. Thirdly, there is a middle social class. Those people in the middle class are the most unsatisfied people with unhealthy psychological curiosity. They learned what their neighbors enjoy from the current social and political system but not able to access it’s fat. These are the people that the Darlong society should take care of by upgrading the current system.
The Darlongs are very much-socialized people that wherever four or five Darlongs live together outside Tripura, they could, may be always, reach a common ground where they can socially do something together. They are more communitarian than individualistic. One of the negative aspects of the Darlong society is that due to lack of access to the outside world, especially who have been born and brought up within the state of Tripura, there is lack of understanding about the multiculturalism and fortune sharing with other fellow human societies. However, there is the top class of people in the society those who have intellectually and rationally comprehended well all the said social cultural issues and inter-personal relation with the outsiders. Secondly, there is also a class of people in the bottom of the society. They have a very limited access to the benefit of the Tripura statehood and they are pretty much still living in the primitive life style, except a few socially superficial transformation. For example, those people in the rural areas finding their way of life from a traditional sifting cultivation, they still are abode by the Darlong traditional philosophy of life. Thirdly, there is a middle social class. Those people in the middle class are the most unsatisfied people with unhealthy psychological curiosity. They learned what their neighbors enjoy from the current social and political system but not able to access it’s fat. These are the people that the Darlong society should take care of by upgrading the current system.
As a young society, there
is imbalanced growth in several areas. The time of the first priority of the
society-quantitative education-is now past and the system should be upgraded to
produce a qualitative education and a healthy social learning environment. The
time has come to move the people’s political attitude from a defensive and
protective to an altruistic political behavior, removing all psychological
fears in the minds of the people to create a healthy and peaceful environment
for the birth of a peaceful social phenomenon. Unless otherwise the Darlong
society takes this step, the people’s current psychological inconveniency will
grow up to reach a chaotic social political environment.
