Mizoram (India)

Last modified: 2002-07-13 by jonathan dixon
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Indian states officially do not have flags of their own, except for Jammu and Kashmir. However, some unofficial flags have been reported:

• Mizoram: the same (or very similar) to Iceland (reported in the Flag Bulletin)

IIRC, the cross and the fimbriations are wider and the shade of blue is lighter than the Icelandic flag.

Antonio Martins, 6 June 1999

We do not have our own flag or any connection with Ceylon or Iceland. Our original traditional colours are red, white and black, and these colours are used by some voluntary organisations within Mizoram. But they do not represent our whole state or the whole community.
Van Neih Tluanga, Mizoram, 28 May 2000

Mizoram is probably a wrongly reported flag. I see that the Iceland flag was also reported like the one of Ceylon because the captions "Ceylon" and "Iceland" confused the translator. Mizoram was populated by Mizos, that were ethnically close to Chins. Perhaps "Iceland" can be confused with "Chin Land" for a European translator and reported and finally wrongly attributed. But in all, the national colors of the Chins are the R-W-B. Seems that the current colors of the Mizos are the green and the red.

Jaume Ollé, 8 June 1999

Iceland pattern for flag of Mizoram is information from W Smith and so probably accurate. I reported this from Flag Bulletin. But sometimes the info provided to the vexillogist can be wrong or missinterpreted.

Jaume Ollé, 27 June 1999

I'm sure I've seen it depicted more or less as I GiFfed it, with details proposedly different from the real Icelandic flag.

Antonio Martins, 28 June 1999

In Flags of Aspirant Peoples this flag is labelled as "Mizoram (Mizos, Zomis or "Chins"). The flag might be associated with a movement and not with the Mizoram state - as the caption of the chart seems to say. Encyclopaedia Universalis says that 'Mizo' is a generic term for several tibeto-burmese tribes, including the Lushai who settled in what is now Mizoram. 90% of the Lushai were converted by Baptist missionaries. This may explain the cross on the flag.

Ivan Sache, 16 Sep 1999

In FTAAATW (p. 303, #22) there is a flag of the Mizo people (the inhabitants of Mizoram). The Flag is forizontal white-blue with a red disk in the middle.

Jarig Bakker, 7 June 1999

In October 1998, Jaume mentioned that India's Mizo people and Myanmar's Chin people were the same. Mr Pasch once sent me a number of Myanmar independentist flags, which he had found on a 1975 article about Burmese flags, and those included a flag of the Chin people which actually is the one found in FTTAAATW. He also added that the people were also called the Zomi and the country would be called Zozam, were it to gain independence.

Thanh-tâm Lê, 7 June 1999

from YMA site

The website for the Young Mizo Association displays their flag, and states:

Young Mizo Association (YMA) is a non-political, Voluntary organization, established on the 15th June 1935 at Aizawl, Mizoram. ... YMA is an all-India organization with Branches at Mizoram, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura. It is registered under the Societies Act (Act XXI of 1960)