The Lakher tribals belongs to the Kuki tribal community and are also found in several regions of India like Mizoram, Assam etc. This Lakher tribal community prefers to reside in the lapse of the natures `s beauty, full with flowers, tress, hills and rivers. The Lakher tribal community use the beautiful language, namely Mara-chin, for conversation. This language belongs to the Sino-Tibetan Phylum.

The origin of the Lakher tribes too can be backed up by very interesting story. The common belief is that these Lakher tribes have sprung up from some place of the north of their current site in the Chin Hills. Before the British Imperial control and incorporation of the Lakher tribes into modern Indian society, the village leader used to govern them.

If one dissects the society of the Lakher tribal community, one finds that it is divided into 6 groups and these include the Hawthai, Tlongsai, Zuchnanag, Heima Sabeu and also Lialia. Each group constitutes of several clans, and again each clan acquired the name of a forerunner. Clan unity is apparent mostly during time of important decision makings. In maximum situations, the Lakher tribal village has been considered to be the foci of the all the major socio-political activities.

Just like many other tribal communities, these Lakher tribes too hold the institution of marriage in high esteem. Young men and women are permitted substantial liberty in pre-marital relations. For a Lakher male , the normal age of getting married is between twenty to twenty five years and a Lakher female gets married when she reaches the age of twenty years. Also as per the norms the parents of a Lakher male chooses bride for her. The Lakher tribal community does not follow the norms of endogamy or exogamy. Monogamous marriage is in vogue. A bride price must be rewarded before the wedding ritual take place.

These Lakher tribes follow the rules of socializing children. These Lakher children have been responsible for their own knowledge and learning. Children have got the tendency of viewing the activities of their seniors and simulate them at the same time. What has been pointed by the anthropologists of the Indian subcontinent, the Lakher parents truly play a significant role in the socialization of the children. Once children are adequately mature, they can go together with their Lakher father on expedition to the forest areas, in order to watch techniques used for various activities like hunting and fishing. In this way, these Lakher tribes have gained mastery in acquiring these skills by simulation. As far as the occupations are concerned, these Lakher tribes, as has been mentioned, follow the practices of hunting and also fishing to a great extent. Other occupations include food gathering of various activities like rice, flowers, trees, and several varieties of bamboos. Jhum cultivation is one of the important activities that these Lakher tribes used to undertake in order to sustain their livelihood. Trading and Bartering also are incorporated in the whole of the economy of the Lakher tribal community.

The religious orientation of this tribal community too bore the traces of the uniqueness of the whole of the Lakher tribal community. The Lakher recognize the God Khazangpina whom these Lakhre tribes assume to have created the whole of the `cosmos`, the one who reins the fortune of all living creatures on Earth. Regarding these deities , several myths are also popular amongst the Lakher tribes. For instance, the Khazangpina is thought to have dwelled in the hills or in the sky.

The Lakhers also presume that mountain, forest and ponds have got a plethora of vicious and benevolent spirits. They are called Leurahripas . It is also thought that each and every person of this Lakher tribal community has an adorable guardian deity. The name of the deity is called zang from whom all the Lakher tribal community seeks blessings and protection.

Special joyful events are being organized in order to fete the moments of joy as well as sorrow associated with the social life of the Lakher tribal community. Although most of these joyful occasions are only a handful in number , they are chiefly related to occasions like marriage and birth.

Sacrifice is also part and parcel of the religious life of this Lakher tribal community. Multitudes of magical practices and also religious sacrificial rituals are associated with various practices like health check ups, household affairs, family worship and the cults. The most significant is the Khazangpina sacrifice , done more obviously for the appeasement of Khazangpina. At the time of sacrificial ceremony , the Lakher tribe seeks blessings for the welfare of his entire family. This ceremony is unmatched in matter of importance.

Certain social beliefs also centered on one`s death in the Lakher tribal community. In fact, these Lakaher tribes arduously believe that death of Lakher tribes occur when deities like Khazangpina or a leurahripa steals the soul of a human being. After death, the dead man is supposed to set out for one of three worlds. To which domain an individual will be belonging depends on the deeds of the person. Those who had an normal life reside in the village of the dead , better known as athikhi. Those who have killed several animals and also the Ia ceremony has been supposed to achieve Peira. In the Lakher society, Peira is considered to be a place near that of Khazangpina. Those who meet abnormal deaths or expire because of diseases are limited to Sawrawkhi. If the Lakher trial children die, all their spirits are being transmigrated to the bodies of those siblings who are younger than the deceased souls.