Aizawl, Nov 13 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will virtually inaugurate the Ropuiliani Tribal Freedom Fighters’ Museum in Mizoram on November 15, as part of a nationwide programme of tribal development initiatives, officials said.
The museum, established at the Tribal Research Institute in Kelsih near Aizawl, is among several projects under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs that will be inaugurated by the PM through video conference, they said. The museum complex has been designed as a cultural and heritage centre and includes an open-air theatre, the Birsa Munda Tribal Pride Garden, cafeteria and staff quarters, among other facilities, the officials said.
The museum was recently inspected by Governor Vijay Kumar Singh.
Ropuiliani was a prominent Mizo chieftainess and one of the early tribal leaders to resist British colonial rule in the Lushai Hills (now Mizoram).
She was imprisoned and later taken to Rangamati in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in present-day Bangladesh, where Ropuiliani died in captivity in January 1895.
