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The '''Mim Kut''' is a festival of [[Mizoram]], [[India]]. It is usually celebrated during the months of August and September, after the harvest of maize.<ref name="Barthakur2003">{{cite book|last=Barthakur|first=Dilip Ranjan|title=The Music And Musical Instruments Of North Eastern India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oP4vH-4oSEcC&pg=PA55|accessdate=8 August 2012|year=2003|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=978-81-7099-881-5|page=55}}</ref> <br />
==Origin and History==<br />
Mim Kut is regarded as the oldest festival of the Mizoram, it was a ceremony organized for the dead. Feasting is a part of it but there is hardly any funand gaiety in it. Mim means maize or corn. It is observed after the maize or corn is ripe. It was held in memory of the deceased.<ref>{{cite web |title=OVERVIEW OF MIZO FESTIVALS AND CEREMONIES |url=https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/195983/10/10_chapter%203.pdf |website=shodhganga |accessdate=20 September 2020}}</ref><br />
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==Celebration==<br />
''Mim Kut'' is celebrated with great fanfare by (illegally) drinking rice-beer, singing, dancing, and feasting but without gaiety. Samples of the year's harvests are consecrated to the departed souls of the community. As Mim Kut is a period for lamentation, it is also known as Tah Kut, which means‘festival of reaping’<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Festivals in Mizoram]]<br />
[[Category:Festivals in Nagaland]]<br />
[[Category:Harvest festivals in India]]<br />
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