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<p>1.38.128.112: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}}<br /> {{Use Indian English|date=February 2020}}<br /> '''Mara''' or Mra (also known as '''Mura''') refers to a tribe in [[Arunachal Pradesh]]. The Mara are ethnically [[Tagin people|Tagin]] although they claim to be a separate group, just like the [[Nga people|Nga]] to the north, but they acknowledge a common ancestry. Like the Nga, the Mara (Mrs) also engage in barter trade with the [[Tibetan people|Tibetans]] in the north prior to the closure of the Indo-Tibetan border in view of the 1962 [[Sino-Indian War]]. They traded ornaments, Tibetan dao from the Tibetans in the north and [[Gayal|Mithun]], tribal masks, animal hides and dyes of plants from the [[Nishi (tribe)|Nishi]] and [[Sulung]] on the south.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite book|title=Tribes of India: Ongoing Challenges|author=Rann Singh Mann|publisher=M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.|year=1996|pages=395–402|isbn=81-7533-007-4}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> The Mara(Mra) inhabit in Limeking in [[Upper Subansiri]], just south of Taksing which is inhabited by the Nga. The Mara believed that they were descended from two brothers, Kangra and Mara, who came from Nyime ([[Tibet]]) and settled in the region.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite book|title=Census of India, 1971|author=India Office of the Registrar General, J. K. Barthakur|publisher=Manager of Publications|year=1972|pages=73}}&lt;/ref&gt; Like other [[Tagin people|Tagins]], the Mara subscribe to the [[Donyi Polo]] faith but have come under considerable [[Tibetan Buddhist]] influence as a result of centuries of interactions with the Tibetans in the north.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite book|title=Paths of Peace: Studies on the Sino-Indian Border Dispute |author=T. S. Murty|publisher=ABC Pub. House|year=1983|pages=169|isbn=0-86144-488-4}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> {{TOAP}}<br /> <br /> {{authority control}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Donyi-Polo communities]]<br /> [[Category:Upper Subansiri district]]</div>

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