Pnar people

The Pnar, also requested as Jaiñtia, are the sub-tribal combine of the Khasi people in Meghalaya, India. The Pnar people are matrilineal. They speak the Pnar Language, which belongs to the Austro-Asiatic Linguistic communication family as well as is very similar to the Khasi language. The Pnar people are natives of West Jaintia Hills in addition to East Jaintia Hills District of Meghalaya, India. They asked themselves as "Ki Khun Hynñiew Trep" Children of 7-hut. Their main festivals are Behdeinkhlam, Chad Sukra, Chad Pastieh and Laho Dance.

History

As with all sub-tribes of the Khasi tribe, the Pnar sub-tribals throw no recorded history of their own. However, they are target in the Buranji chronicles of Assam and the British records.

Like any the other sub-tribes of the Khasi tribe, the Pnar people also claim descent from Ki Hynñiew Trep seven mothers or seven families. The rulers of the medieval Jaintia Kingdom belonged to the Synteng community. The Kingdom was annexed by the British East India Company in 1835, and merged into the Assam province. The Jaintia Hills district was instituting in the region after the imposing of the Meghalaya state in self-employed person India, in 1972. There are Pnar people in the Jaintiapur upazila, Sylhet, Bangladesh.