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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Khokon
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| other_name = Khokawn
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| settlement_type = village
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Manipur, India
| coordinates = {{coord|24|59|33.3|N|093|59|47.8|E|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Manipur]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Kangpokpi District|Kangpokpi]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Tehsil]]
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| founder = Ngulthong Haokip
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| government_type = Village council
| governing_body = Village council
| unit_pref = Metric
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| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]
| postal_code = 795114
| area_code_type = Telephone code
| area_code = +91385-
| registration_plate = MN
| blank_name_sec1 = [[Sex ratio]]
| blank_info_sec1 = 980 (2011)
| blank1_name_sec1 = [[Literacy]]
| blank1_info_sec1 = 70%
| website = {{URL|kangpokpi.nic.in}}
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'''Khokon''' (also spelled as '''Khokawn''') is a [[Kuki people|Kuki]] village in the [[Kangpokpi district]] of [[Manipur]], India.<ref name="2011 Census">{{cite web |title=Khokon |url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/pca/SearchDetails.aspx?Id=304465 |website=[[2011 Census of India]] |publisher=[[Government of India]] |accessdate=2 September 2017 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20170902153245/http://www.censusindia.gov.in/pca/SearchDetails.aspx?Id=304465 |archivedate=2 September 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> As per Census of India 2011, there are 33 household with a total population of 189 persons, out of which 96 are male while 93 are female.<ref name="2011 Census" />

==Etymology==
The term Khokon means a zig-zag village.

==History==
The [[Kuki people|Kuki]] village of Khokon was originally established in the 1900s in the then Ukhrul subdivision of Manipur (roughly coinciding with the present-day [[Ukhrul district]]). It was situated between two [[Tangkhul people|Tangkhul]] villages Kachai and Sumdal, which had ongoing rivalries between them. Khokon was established on a hill top between the two villages with the encouragement of the then state administration, under the leadership of chief Paokhoson Haokip. The villagers of Khokon, using their armed strength, controlled the two warring villages in the Ukhrul subdivision, and as a result brought about the much needed peace and tranquility in the area. In post-independence India, the rising [[Naga nationalism]] and militancy led some of the Tangkhul nationalists to serve quit notice to Khokon villagers forgetting their contribution in the past. Their village was burnt down by Naga nationalists in 1961.<ref name="Thongkholal Haokip">{{citation |last=Haokip |first=T. |title=Migration, Regional Autonomy, and Conflicts in Eastern South Asia: Searching for a Home(land) |year=2023 |editor1=Amit Ranjan |chapter=Home and Belonging in Northeast India |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=9783031287640 |editor2=Diotima Chattoraj |pages=156–157}}</ref><ref>The Plight of Indigenous Kuki People, p. 42, sl. no. 45, published by Kuki Movement for Human Rights (KUMHUR), 2009</ref> The villagers were forced to leave their homes in 1961.<ref>PS Haokip, [[Zale'n-gam]]: The Kuki Nation, KNO Publication, 2008, p. 562.</ref> Scholar Thongkholal Haokip notes that the erstwhile villagers of Khokon are now spread out all over the state of Manipur.<ref name="Thongkholal Haokip"/>

The then Khokon village chief Ngulthong Haokip later established a new village under the same name in the Saikul subdivision of Sadar Hills (now [[Kangpokpi district]]).<ref name="Thongkholal Haokip"/>

==Location==
Khokon village is located at 24°59'33.3"N latitude, and 93°59'47.8"E longitude. It is situated at a height of 790 m above sea level, and just about 35 Kilometres from [[Imphal]], the capital city of [[Manipur]].

==Literacy==
As per the Census of India 2011, Khokon has a literacy rate of 56.68%, out of which the male population is 61.05% and female is 52.17%.

==Church==
The people in the village had been largely converted during the 19th century, and they are affiliated to [[Kuki Baptist Convention]], a [[Baptist]] Kuki denomination in [[Northeast India]].

==Occupation==
Even though Khokonites were traditionally cultivators and animal rearers, with the passage of time they largely shifted to small businesses and other skilled professions such as knitting and yarning. The educated ones are engaged in teaching and research in various universities of [[India]] and also as medical practitioners. A sections of youths also migrated to different metropolitan cities in the country to work in various companies and BPOs.

==References==
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[[Category:Villages in Sadar Hills]]
[[Category:Villages in Kangpokpi district]]

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