GUWAHATI, India — Bengkhuaia, the chief of the Mizo community hailing from the Sailam hamlet in India’s northeastern state of Mizoram, took the fight against the British colonizers and organized a community-led resistance against them. One-hundred-and-forty-two years after his death, Bengkhuaia was honored when a species of gecko, a tiny lizard-like animal found in the forests of Aizawl, was named after […]
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